This novel is in first draft stage, so please excuse typos and general oddness. I’ll post updates as editing progresses. Right now, I’m doing a substantive edit, moving things around and adding chapters from the point of view of my ‘framing’ character, Yilli, who starts the book off in Chapter 1. PrologueAmberWithout warning, she felt […]
Chapter 1Under her bare feet was a puzzle of grasses, ribbons of dark green velvet, spiky feathers of bronze that tickled her ankles, grasses like sea foam, the white seed heads hanging with the weight of the dew. Borders of tall grasses constrained the choice of pathway, forcing a decision of this way or that, […]
Chapter 1Rit woke being held, a slow waking as he drifted in and out of consciousness. Even with the feel of smooth skin under his hands, a deep lassitude stilled his mind past wondering how the warm flesh nestled against him would taste.Escort duty, he was on escort duty. On his way back to Endica. […]
PrologueThe South Bay Temple Dance Master tapped her stick to signal the end of the dance. Others in Ulanda’s beginner class giggled with relief at having made it through without too many mistakes, breath surrounding their heads like clouds of incense.Light snow fell, the first of that winter, the crystals like pollen on the Dance […]