Zerai cast an uneasy look at the doors of the audience chamber. He remembered them, dimly. Eight years ago he had walked proudly through those doors with Nezana perched on his fist and asked Negus Salloran to let him become a magi warrior. He tried to imagine that he took the rejection better tha...
But they reached the second general’s house without seeing a soul.Again Faris and Iyasu went inside, this time with Taharqa, while the rest of the group guarded the front of the house, standing in the street as the cold breeze slithered through their hair and clothing. Edris stayed close to Petra...
Running“Damn it.” Lycus pointed up the road. “More aether.”Tycho nodded. He could see the pale tendrils of the mist snaking over the rooftops and around the corners all around them. It’s everywhere, draining down every street. We’re never going to make it to the barracks at this rate.He stood in ...
ReunionFreya sat outside the water mill listening to Erik gasp for breath and pound on the floor inside. She glanced inside once to check on him, and saw the inhuman expression on his face. It was a face stretched beyond a man’s capacity to understand pain, a face that wanted to scream but never ...
Nothing but cedars. No firs, no oaks, no ferns, no fruit trees. Just cedars. They stood in sentinel rows up and down the mountainsides and across the valley floors. They leaned at agonizing angles, telling silent tales of landslides and flashfloods and lightning strikes. And they lay down as chew...
The first thing that caught my eye was that he looked a lot younger, and taller, and stronger than I was expecting. Somehow, from that brief conversation with Felix, I had gotten the idea that he was middle-aged or older, and would be thin or paunchy, and definitely raggedy with some awful beard ...