Kahina opened her eyes and took a laboured breath in of the dry, stale air. The chipped stone that had been her bed for the last few days left her body aching, but she pushed herself up into a sitting position, pressing her lips tightly together to suppress any cries of pain. It took her […]
Sudi Boulos maintained a pleasant smile on his face as the Lord sitting beside him continued to talk about… shipments? New policies? Everything in the banquet hall had turned into the persistent buzz of a fly long ago. Frustratingly annoying but impossible to squish without making oneself look like a fool. He made an agreeing […]
The explosion would have thrown Aisha if she hadn’t been on the ground already. All she could do was hide her head and wish for the best. When she finally looked up, bodies were strewn across the floor of the Temple. Her first thought should have been to get out. Instead, she had searched the […]
Aisha had sat frozen in her room after the gentleman had left. Panic made her mind buzz. She was sure she was going to die–he would sell her out to save himself. He would tell everyone exactly what she was, and no amount of blue in her eyes was going to help her. What would […]
There wasn’t a decision made when Seti found himself moving towards the temple, careful to listen for guards. It resulted in a somewhat unorthodox route, but they got there. The trouble was, and he realized this on opening the door, he didn’t know the priestess’s name. Or anything about her that would tell him she […]
Kahina watched as Seti flung himself over the side of the railing and dropped out of sight. Her breath caught, and she rushed over to the banister, half hanging over it, to see Seti disappear down the hallway that led to the kitchen. She still felt like crying, but there was too much shock getting […]
“They’re going to kill him,” Kahina said against his chest. “They’re going to take him away and kill him, and no one seems to care!” He pushed her far enough away from him that he could look into her eyes. They were so red and swollen–his heart dropped in his chest. “Who’s being killed?” “Junaid! […]
Seti forgot more and more of himself every time he took on a new veneer. He had heard that, long ago, there had been magic users who could rip the ground apart and flood the desert with a wave of their hand. Times when the water had been plentiful in Afasa because the people had […]
I know that “judging a book by its cover” is a big no-no in contemporary society but, like, look at that cover! A lot of the time the cover art is more elaborate–and done by a separate artist–for comics but, no, Sana Takeda‘s artwork is actually that beautiful throughout the book. Furthermore, anything with a […]
I’ve never been a romance person. I find it tedious in my fiction and inconvenient in my day-to-day life. This is socially acceptable when you’re a kid but once I got to being a teenager and I still had no interest in the roulette of dating that was happening around me, people started to make […]
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