Literature
City of Shadows - Part 1, Take 2
The door burst inward with a crash and the crack of splintering wood. Guards piled through the doorway shoulder to shoulder, hands on hilts. At the sight of them, the boy leapt up with a yelp, flying into his mother's arms. She folded him tightly in her grasp, glaring at the intruders.
“What is the meaning of this?” the father demanded, rising from his chair. The boy twisted in his mother’s grasp, turning to peer at the intruders with widened eyes as she knit her fingers tighter, digging them into the fabric of his clothing.
“By authority of the mayor,” the first of the guards began, “this woman and the b