Path of Glory The body of water half in Crius and half in Phoebe was usually designated on maps as Phoebe or the Phoebe Sea, but no one ever called it that. One traveled through Phoebe and sailed on the Twilight Sea. It was an apt name. The western end of the sea was in Crius, and thus in dayligh...
It looked as if every city block had a fire. That was probably an exaggeration, but there were certainly hundreds of them, perhaps thousands. And the smoke was all black. He knew that when firefighters poured water on a blaze the smoke usually turned white. There was not a single plume of white t...
She closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened them she was still on sand, but it was the fine black sand of the small lake where Gaby had made love to her on the day Adam was taken. She turned her head, and saw Gaby standing beside her. She reached up and Gaby took her hand. Once more there w...
Cirocco didn’t protest; it sounded good to her, though she could never have suggested it. She walked downstream, often passing the marks Gaby had made. At one point she had to leave the sandy shore and go up onto the grass to avoid a large pile of boulders. When she reached the grass she saw a se...
To say that it was dull and that nothing much happened would be at the same time a terrible understatement and untrue. I’m sure Javelin began to regret it within the first month. She had taken us on as a lark, as something to break the routine she had lived under for such a long time. But she wou...