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    A Ticket to Ride: The Revenants of Embri - Revenant Tales, #2
    A Ticket to Ride: The Revenants of Embri - Revenant Tales, #2
    A Ticket to Ride: The Revenants of Embri - Revenant Tales, #2
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    A Ticket to Ride: The Revenants of Embri - Revenant Tales, #2

    By Ravyn Karasu

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    In the world of Embri, one will find the ordinary and the extraordinary. The two superior species on the planet are human beings and revenants, a type of creature that manifests as a walking and sentient skeleton. Some are good; some are bad, but many have a story to tell.

    Benjamin Cox lives in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in the town of Delgerryburg. After accidentally breaking a window, he is grounded. Tired of his parents and their rules, he runs away, stopping at the train station at the other end of town. There, he meets a mysterious station master. While waiting for his train, he encounters a beautiful luxury steam engine and is determined to board. What Benjamin does not realize is that this train could give him one hell of a ride.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRavyn Karasu
    Release dateOct 30, 2018
    ISBN9781386665731
    A Ticket to Ride: The Revenants of Embri - Revenant Tales, #2

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      A Ticket to Ride - Ravyn Karasu

      Introduction

      Welcome to the world of Embri. It is a world very similar to our own and also a world of fanciful creatures and tales. The following story takes place within this world and is part of a collection of Revenant Tales.

      The revenants in this series are living skeletons of different types (ranks) and are ruled by a hierarchy. These tales focus on smaller events, tales, and experience within the Revenants of Embri series.

      The collection of tales that have gained a paperback status have done so due to their length. They are longer than short stories, but also shorter than the main novels within the series. The stories therein the Revenant Tales collection of the series are thereby not as in depth and informative about the universe as the greater main novel series.

      It is therefore the purpose to make such a disclaimer. The novellas of Revenant Tales are not part of the main Revenants of Embri novel series but are still canon in that universe. Characters and events may appear in some capacity within the main novel series.

      It should also be noted that there is no particular order in which these stories (or the main novel series) must be read. The publication date is not part of a particular linear timeline, but all take place at different points therein.

      If you enjoy this tale, you may enjoy other stories within Revenant Tales and the overall series, The Revenants of Embri as a whole.

      It had simply been an accident. It wasn’t as if he had intended for it to happen. However, if he had been smart, he would have followed the example of his so-called friends. He should have turned and ran like the others. That wasn’t what he did, though. In a moment of confusion and panic, he just stood in that spot like a doofus. In his hand was the incriminating evidence and pointing the finger at his cohorts would have proven fruitless at that point. He had held that bat with so little vigor as he stared at the mess he had made with his rather good hit. Rather than an outfield or out of the park, however, he had sent the makeshift ball (a rather nice shaped and sized rock) into the glass. He had broken old Mr. Chavinsky’s window.  No one would take the blame for him.

      There was no point in denying it. He sputtered and stammered, but there was nothing he could muster that would bring him any amount of success. Not even puppy eyes and a sappy apology. He stood in the glaring stares of his parents as they loomed over him with disapproval on their faces.

      Benjamin Frederick Cox, his mother huffed. He was in for it now. She used his middle name. She had her hands on her hips and her face scrunched up in that special mother kind of way.

      You are in so much trouble, his father added. He had his arms crossed and stared down his nose at the boy. He was the authority. He intimidated Benjamin deep down. He hated it when his father was angry with him. It just didn’t feel good. What do you have to say for yourself?

      Benjamin shrugged his shoulders. It wouldn’t have mattered one way or the other. There was just nothing to say.

      You’re grounded, Mister! He said in his stern and serious manner. "You’ll

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