Seeker of the Four Winds: A Galatia Novel (47 page)

Note From the Author

I have spent years
dreaming up the fictional nation of Galatia and her associated
characters. I am so happy that you decided to come for a visit. If
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A heartfelt thank you to my critique buddy,
James Vernon; my editor, Josephine Henke; and my beta reader and
awesome schwester, Donna Parish.

C. D. Verhoff grew up in Fort Wayne,
Indiana. Indiana University is her alma mater. She has worked in
various occupations—including retail, teaching, business and
finance. Writing has been a passion of hers for as long as she can
remember. This has contributed to years of caffeine addiction,
mindless snacking at the computer, and growing middle-age spread.
Currently, she lives in rural Ohio with her husband, two children,
and The Hunger Dog, a black lab who will eat anything, including
walls and ductwork.

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Red the First

A Prequel to the Galatia Series

Promised Land

Book One of the Galatia Series

Seeker of the Four Winds

Book Two of the Galatia Series

Exiled*

Book Three of the Galatia Series

*Release Date: Undetermined

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Glory Alley, Girl Rock
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Glory Alley and the Star Riders

Book One

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Glossary

(Sorted by
Characters,
Places
and
Things
)

I. Characters

Allison Wakeland:
Red and Susan’s oldest daughter. She’s eighteen years old when she
lands on Future Earth and is assigned the job of a hunter.

Barrett Fade:
Michael Penn’s younger half-brother. He is the son of Jacob Fade
and Elizabeth. The charisma is powerful in him. His brothers
jokingly refer to himself as ‘Barry Potter’ because of his unique
ability to form the earth into any shape he wills. Barrett is the
tallest of Elizabeth’s four sons. Brown hair, tall, muscular build,
brown eyes.

Bayloo:
Flamboyant
owner of Bayloo’s Traveling Theater & Company—an illegal
fighting ring disguised as a theater company. He has a handlebar
mustache. A deep scar divides his left cheek. Huge hoop earrings
and rings on each hand. A sword hung from his hip. His
caramel-colored skin was covered with black spots. He might be part
Regalan, but his body was thicker, his mane non-existent, and his
eyes were as a regular man’s.

Belle Winters:
Isaiah Wakeland’s ex-fiancé. Brown hair, flawless olive skin. They
broke up after Isaiah caught her cheating on him.

Bezons:
An elusive
female-dominant race of humanoids with bee-like qualities such as
antennae and flightless iridescent wings. Their homeland is hidden
so well, that even on future Earth, the other races think they are
more myth than real.

Bianca Spaulding:
Josie’s Commoner step-mother.

Big Clo:
A
half-Gargo female actor in Bayloo’s theater company.

Blanche Steelsun:
Known for her cheerful disposition, she counterbalances her husband
Nathan’s surly attitude. Blanche is Dr. Simon Steelsun’s mother,
Lars’s grandmother, and Red Wakeland the Second’s godmother. Her
charisma gives her the power to lift objects with her mind. She
entered the bunker when she was twenty.

Bolt:
Lars’s
horse.

Buckwheat:
Josie’s
horse.

Bryce Fade:
The son
of Elizabeth and Jacob Fade, half-brother of Red Wakeland the
First, brother of Michael Penn through adoption. He’s a slightly
shorter and chubbier version of Barrett.

Bulwark:
Though the
Bulwark Kingdom lies across the divide in the East, they are one of
the four major races of the Western Alliance. A Bulwark has short
legs, a barrel-shaped body, thick arms, and horns growing out of
his temples. About a head shorter than an average man and twice as
wide, Bulwarks are covered with velvety hair—black, brown, rust or
white in color. They have short snouts, two nostrils like crescent
moons, and small black eyes. They wear rings on their horns. Each
represents bravery or victory in battle. According to Fundo, he can
see strong Yoloku characteristics in the Bulwarks. Their ancestors
were probably slaves on one of the Celerun ships stranded on Earth
after nuclear Armageddon. They carry heavy weaponry, like spiked
metal balls, and war hammers. Mining is a common occupation of
Bulwarks. Killing Slivens is their favorite pastime. Biologically
herbivores, nevertheless they persist in eating meat. Therefore,
they fart and belch a lot.
Yuh
means yes.
Nuh
means
no in their native language.

Captain Odis Dolby:
In his mid-thirties when he first delivers the proclamation to Red
Wakeland the Second, he’s a decorated member of Tectonia’s elite
guard.

Celerun:
The alien
invaders who dropped a manufactured plague onto Earth in the modern
era, but were prevented from manually killing the survivors by
Wakeland the First, Elizabeth, and unseen others. The diversity of
live on Future Earth is due largely to the number of Celerun ships
abandoned on Earth after the nuclear devastation, with slaves
within.

Chief Krom (He Who Rules
with an Iron Fist):
The Bulwark chief of all the other
Bulwark chiefs. Krom lost a hand in battle. He wears the head of a
sledgehammer in its place. He rules the Kingdom of Shaldoah and
makes his home in Glandorf Hall, a cavernous mountain dwelling that
used to be a diamond mine.

Chief Shaldoah:
A
legendary Bulwark who died centuries before the Galatians arrive on
Future Earth.

Commoner:
The
dominant race of the West. Externally, Commoners appear human save
for having four fingers on each hand, and four toes on each foot.
Internally, there are noticeable differences. For instance, the
heart is on the right side, and all internal structures are
flipped. They have a few extra organs humans do not. When a
Commoner has offspring with a human—the human traits are
dominant.

Crashing Thunder:
A
humanoid form the amphibious Janpu race. He’s a slave warrior in in
Bayloo’s Theater Company.

Dante Armstrong:
Josie’s brother-in-law. Dante was an IT guy when he lived in the
bunker. He met Jo on the job and they fell in love. He arrived on
Future Earth with the Fade Brothers Group. When Dr. Simon Steelsun
decides to leave that group, Dante packs up his family and goes
with him to Tectonia.