Unloved

Written in Spring 2020 during the depths of the COVID quarantine, this is a story of finding friendship and love out of hardship, set in a fantasy setting. An assassin grievously wounded in the middle of a hit gives up on his mission when his target saves him. Brought together by a sense of personal duty and honor, two solitary and "unloved" people develop a genuine connection with one another, which is tested by the sudden emergence of a nation-wide pandemic, the plague. Some people like to be alone, but isolation feels different when there is someone out there you care about, and who cares about you...