The first thing she noticed was the heat; her entire body felt as if it was in an oven. She was in bed, and the sheets were stuck to her with sweat. The instant she moved, sickening pain slammed through her head. The pain rose with every heartbeat, as if each thud were driving a spike into her fo...
It was the same one that had been there two decades ago, rebuilt after the war. Taranisäii bodies had hung from it before. Today, though, there was no noose set up. A block had been laid out, and an axe, with a burly man to wield it. Now-a-days, a Taranisäii could have a m...
She had been away from the nest for longer than she should have, bent on finding proper food after a week of virtually nothing, and had underestimated the amount of time it would take her to get back. On reaching the place where there had been a herd of animals once before, she found it deserted ...