(Law) The Reaper does not serve Hananja. It no longer needs a stone. * * * Niyes was a fool to think he could escape this nightmare, thought Charris. Now General Charris, elevated to Niyes’s place. Once Charris might have been pleased with the appointment and with the oblique victory over h...
(watercolor) BY NOW YOU’RE PROBABLY CONFUSED. That’s all right; so was I. The problem wasn’t just my misunderstanding—though that was part of it—but also history. Politics. The Arameri, and maybe the more powerful nobles and priests, probably know all this. I’m just an ordinary woman with no conn...
It’s undignified. ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WAS A little girl who had two older siblings. The oldest was dark and wild and glorious, if somewhat uncouth. The other was filled with all the brightness of all the suns that ever were, and he was very stern and upright. They were much older than her, and...
He could not see it, but he knew that it was there. As the Prince’s heir it was his duty to hunt and kill it before it harmed his mothers or siblings. “Wana.” Stalking through the garden as quietly as he could—his legs were shorter, he had always been a quiet child—he hefted his spear and “Wana! ...