The ambitions of the architect outstretched the progeny of the elder Burns, and whole wings had alternately been shuttered and rehabilitated in the generations my family had been living here. As a child I used to make a game of the empty chambers, searching for ghosts or treasure, or making up st...
His mask lay shattered by his face, and there was blood coming from his mouth. I stepped over him and walked down the hallway, in the direction I had come from. I found the source of all the violence just around a corner. Even deaf to the Song, I could still feel it, feel the tension in its octav...
It sits on the south bank of the Ebd river, a gnarled fist grasping the current in fingered bridges, the water flowing over its open palm. Most of the Church is above the river, but the water is harnessed by flow channels, and unknown depths of the holy building exist under the river-turbines and...
ELSA muttered. “We’re just trying to help.” “No, Sir LaFey, we’re not. Not really—and I’d imagine she’s less stubborn than she is frightened.” Lucas folded his hands together and sought the naether, drawing it into a crown around his head. “I must think. Keep an eye on her, as quietly as you can....