A bar clanged into place on the outside of the door, a key turned in a lock. There were no windows. A small grate near the low ceiling looked out onto what was floor level in the great hall. We were in a storeroom, the kind of place that, in Aranyi, is used for dry goods, wood or weapons, things ...
given the season. It was early in the first month of autumn, and autumn on Eclipsis, even in the low-lying plains between the city and the seminary, features a great deal of wind, freezing rain and sleet. In our fourteen-hour day of travel, broken up, again according to Edwige, into two “easy sta...
As my body grew big around the middle, and I had to pee all the time, and sitting or standing or lying down all began to feel equally uncomfortable, everything seemed to turn us against each other. Dominic had been proud of me at Aranyi, always wanting to show me off, rounded and full, ripe with ...
We were both disturbed by the confrontation with our hostess. We need fear no opinion but that of the Viceroy, ‘Graven Assembly, or the Sibyl of a seminary, and Lucretia Ladakh could claim none of this authority. Yet we sat, I propped up on pillows in the bed, Dominic in the hard chair beside me,...
Here’s a preview of Choices, Book Two in the Eclipsis series of Lady Amalie’s memoirs: The ride to La Sapienza was brutal, although Edwige, ‘Gravina Eretegun, declared, a mocking smile on her face, that the weather had “held up nicely, given the season.” It was early in the first month of autum...
Although I could not tell her everything, I did find a sympathetic soul in Magali. From our first meeting, when I had dissolved the reserve between newcomer and veteran with my apparent candor, Magali had warmed to me, and we were soon chatting guardedly each day. She had worked twenty years at A...