The Burning City (Spirit Binders) - Plot & Excerpts
Invisible from the humans who pursued us, we were like beacons in a harbor for every creature of the spirit world. Flying fish battered the mast with their tails. A giant blue octopus poked a monstrous eye from the waters and watched us balefully; Parech noticed that in its eye swam a thousand glowing eels that gnawed and snapped at one another. Of us all, Parech was the best versed in the stars, but even he lacked the knowledge to guide us safely across the ocean all the way to Essel. And here in the mirror-world of the spirits, we could not trust the sky. The moon or the sun would rise, but it made no difference to the amount of light. The stars would blink in and out without warning, sometimes careening through the sky like torchlight on the wall of a cave, and sometimes seeming as static and unchanging as a painting. And only occasionally did they resemble the constellations I’d learned in my youth. Parech hunkered among the barkcloth and dried breadfruit in the hold and attempted not to look out much.
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