You made a good choice for your Naga, she assured me. Danica is more graceful on a dais than half the serpents I know.Provided she isn’t blushing too brightly to see, another quipped. The first time I...
Live it well and this life can be grand.
I want to chase the butterflies.
Christopher . . . are these from you? she asked at lunch, careful to make her tone light as she placed the two picture-poems on the table. Christopher’s eyes fell to them, and he smiled.Yes.He didn’t...
She broke off the instant food was presented to her, staring at it for long moments as if not believing her yes. After that, she ate with a hunger that reminded e more of wolves than of graceful falco...
Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.
I’ll…be okay, Danica asserted. I was just…dizzy. She accepted held standing, but once she was up, her balance seemed to return quickly; she rested one hand on my arm, though I sensed that touch was mo...
How is your lady love faring in all this?His expression shifted, betraying the smile of one happily besotted despite the circumstances. I think she is as stunned as everyone else, but she is a very st...
Breath belongs to Mehay. Ecl has no use for it.
Absently, she brushed back some of the hair from her face, and she saw as Jaguar's eyes followed how the long strands slid across her throat. Though his dark skin did not show pallor as clearly as Lor...
My prayer is simple my dear one, my dear one. May you never need understand. My prayer is for peacetime, my child, my child. Live it well and this life can be grand.
Insanity makes the rivers flow.
He had murdered any illlusion of Alex Remington. The golden pendant had been replaced by a spiked dog collar, and he was wearing a black T-shirt that hugged his form and showed off the many designs on...
Do you feel well enough to travel back to the Keep today?We need to, she answered, but despite her tired tone, she was smiling.We can postpone the trip if you’re not feeling up to it. You and our chil...
You dance every day with the wind. This is not so different, A’isha said encouragingly to Danica. Now, look at the man you love and dance for him.The nest hushed, faces turning to their Naga. Her chee...
We are not.We never were; we never shall be. We return to the void we never, for mehay is the center of all, and all is the center of nothing.
Vultures devour the fallen. Hyenas destroy the weak. Humans kill that which they fear. Survive and be strong, or die, cornered by your prey, trembling because the night is dark.
I fed on one of the true monsters—one of the many 'witch hunters' who interrogated and jailed the accused, seeking guilt where there was none. How humans can do such things to their fellows is beyond...
I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the endless slaughter that I had almost contributed to. (page 8)
Danica’s eyes fluttered open the instant I stepped through the door, and she smiled softly. I was starting to wonder if you were planning on obeying Betsy after all.Never, I assured her. Though I’ve p...