Here are the blurbs. They are at least short! Will this work as I intend it to...
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Inner Jackets
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Outside, lightning lit the heavy clouds, and rain pounded down on the car in torrents. MacLeod stared at his hands, holding the blade of his katana like an offering.
He had not escaped the vicious circle of the eternal battle. He knew it, and it almost drove him to the brink of madness, fueling that nameless rage, but also the despair deep inside him. That was the true reason he had come here, though he had persisted in persuading himself that he was just driving around aimlessly.
He had not escaped the vicious circle of the eternal battle. He knew it, and it almost drove him to the brink of madness, fueling that nameless rage, but also the despair deep inside him. That was the true reason he had come here, though he had persisted in persuading himself that he was just driving around aimlessly.
Ever since one of the battles fought between Scottish clans hundreds of years ago in the Highlands, Duncan MacLeod of the Clan MacLeod cannot die. Like his ancestor[1] Connor, he is cursed to be immortal. Since that day, he has been forced to wander restlessly through time and space, sometimes even walking on the shadowy border between life and death, only to return to the world of the living.
But even his time is limited: There can be only one, and so he must face battles to the death again and again with his peers. The katana, his magic sword, is one of the weapons that he can use to defeat other immortals and finally beat Slan Quince, one of his greatest enemies. But the blade, in whose steel comes to life again and again figures and images of bygone eras, is also the symbol of his curse.
In order to free himself from the curse and be able to live a life of love with Tessa like a normal mortal man, he hurls his sword into the Pacific...
[1] Though by the show Connor is not supposed to be Duncan's ancestor, the word used in German is Vorfahre: pronounced very like to my ear forefather, it means ancestor.
But even his time is limited: There can be only one, and so he must face battles to the death again and again with his peers. The katana, his magic sword, is one of the weapons that he can use to defeat other immortals and finally beat Slan Quince, one of his greatest enemies. But the blade, in whose steel comes to life again and again figures and images of bygone eras, is also the symbol of his curse.
In order to free himself from the curse and be able to live a life of love with Tessa like a normal mortal man, he hurls his sword into the Pacific...
[1] Though by the show Connor is not supposed to be Duncan's ancestor, the word used in German is Vorfahre: pronounced very like to my ear forefather, it means ancestor.
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