Rousing VII: Agnize
Prior Next i – ii – iii i.* As the knife plummeted, my hope fell with it. I hung there on the net for a few beats and then Adwyn arrived. He didn’t glance at me; he unsheathed a short blade. In a...
View ArticleRousing VIII: Repine
Prior Next i – ii – iii i.* “I can’t imagine killing me would end well for you — or accomplish your goals, for that matter,” Adwyn said, peering down at me with a look of patience and recognition...
View ArticleRousing IX: Anticipate
Prior Next i – ii – iii i.* When the eighth long ring chimed, it didn’t stop on the sixth note. The timbre turned from the bells of the highest carillon to the raw or piercing double trumpets you only...
View ArticleRousing X: Harrow
Prior Next i – ii – iii i.* Clouds drew in asudden and hid the suns, bearing down on the world. The ninth long ring came to a close like it was seeking us out in the cliffs, faintly. Out here little...
View ArticleInterlude II: Confess
Prior Next i – ii – iii i.* The drake felt death breathing down his neck. He laughed. “I cannot imagine killing me will end well for you — or accomplish your goals, for that matter,” he said,...
View ArticleInterlude III: Witness
Prior Next i – ii – iii i.* Adwyn knew it was mistaken, but sense was sense. The schizon-clad drake lighted down on the granite hall like the pupil of Gwymr/Frina. One glance was spared to the male...
View ArticleInterlude IV: Slumber
Adwyn pushes himself to complete his mission in the pits, even as mysteries multiply and the depths themselves seem to fight him.… Continue reading Interlude IV: Slumber →
View ArticleGazing I: Notice
Prior Next i – ii – iii i.* Sometimes the stars visited in fire and rock and for a night we fluttered a little nearer to heaven. Down here, while you rested belly-down on some harsh slab, the stars...
View ArticleGazing II: Peer
Prior Next i – ii – iii i.* “C’mon, Kinri. Let’s go.” She meant to the Dadafodd; she’d said that’s where we’d find the drake. “C’mon. My leg is getting done with me standing on it.” “Sit down,...
View ArticleGazing III: Glimpse
Prior Next i – ii – iii i.* “Begone, skyrat,” the forest-dweller said. “You are not welcome here.” Arall was behind us, already walking out of the room, her toes releasing a door handle. She was...
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