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The Girl   For the first time in months, I felt alive. The bandits had taken Kylorian. I’d woken up alone and in shackles that had been pinned to the wall. In fact, my shoulders’ screaming protests had dragged me from sleep in the first place, and as soon a...

The Boy   I’d never met a more intimidating woman. With her laughing eyes and bored demeanor, Faramede reminded me of another woman from long ago, and the memory of her locked my tongue up, dragging my eyes to the floor. It also drew Nylion from wherever he...

The Girl   I’d never met a more intimidating man. He was short enough that I could look down on him while his flabby muscles and loose skin made me wonder how he’d survived for so long in Doldimar’s domain.  Or I did so until I met the man’s eyes. Pure bla...

The Boy   As they moved through the forest, Pointer and Little made no noise, none that I could detect at least. If I didn’t know differently, I’d think they were ghosts, gliding through the trees. I, on the other hand, could make no such claims to stealth....

The Girl   I made no noise as I moved through the forest. I was a wraith, haunting those who’d wronged me. Intent on finding Kylorian and shaking answers out of him. He’d hit me. Again. I didn’t know how often it was safe for someone to lose consciousness ...

Raimie When I woke up on my twenty-second birthday, I was aware of the day’s significance, much as I hated it. I was hoping the news that I'd brought home would distract anyone from doing anything to recognize the day. Last night, I’d come home late from n...

Raimie The study’s door banged open, and in the split second after it had, there was no separation in the being named NylRaimie, only us, but then, we fell apart, leaving me gasping as I clung to my desk while Nylion stared wide-eyed at me. “That was…” he ...

Kylorian Sitting across from Besunthet, the mayor of Sotchal, I watched him talk and tap on his desk, all while knowing I wasn’t going to get what I wanted out of this conversation. “I’m sorry, young man. I really am,” he said. “You’ve done many great thin...

Raimie I strode down the now familiar, eerie halls of the palace toward Eledis’ quarters, and true to his word, Oswin nonchalantly trailed me at a distance, disappearing among the slow-moving flow of people when we reached a more populated floor. Unfortunat...

Raimie As Ren’s words absorbed into my shocked-to-stillness brain, I could swear time crawled around me. Overhead, the trees’ branches bobbed in slow motion while leaves fell at a snail’s crawl. Did she just…? I couldn’t finish the thought. “I… think so....

Eledis Most people assume that the person who holds the most power in a realm is the one who wears the crown. I laugh at those assumptions. A nation’s monarch may decide on policy, but who carries out their decisions? The monarch may be the director of our ...

Kylorian Well, I’d completely and totally messed that up.  Not that this was surprising. I’d been messing up a lot of things lately, so this newest version of it didn’t make me want to recoil as much as some of my other mistakes had done. Still. I couldn’...

Kylorian   In the city proper, people milled about on the streets, forcing me to duck and dodge between them. This didn’t usually bother me. For the most part, I’d grown up in Tiro, one of the most crowded populations in Auden, but today, every individual wh...

Rhylix   A powerful gust of wind knocked me sideways, lifting my feet off of the ground. Before the storm could send me tumbling, I called to the Ele beneath me, attracting it to what was found within my feet. Landing with a thud, I blasted a spray of light ...

Rhylix   As Little and I made our way toward town hall, the other soldiers reluctantly let me through their line, staring at my gray eyes. Many of the people who’d enlisted into the army after Doldimar’s disappearance had been Conscripted soldiers, people ea...

Rhylix   When we stepped into the meeting room, several voices were clamoring to be heard, and Raimie was slouched on the other side of a long table, a perfect picture of misery. He nodded at Little, but when he saw me, he shot to his feet with his chair cla...

Rhylix   “Miranon?” I said, nudging the girl at Raimie’s side. “Why don’t you show him what you can do?” She flashed a blanched face and pleading eyes at me. “It’s all right. I promise,” I said. “I know that after years spent hiding, this is hard, but I sw...

Rhylix An hour later, I trudged out of the village of scientists, making for a cluster of figures huddled by the closest windmill. Hostile stares greeted me from unfamiliar faces, and I was momentarily concerned that I’d need to defend myself against Raimie...

Raimie   Silently, I watched my friend climb a hill, on his way back to Qena. Sending him away with a lie had hurt, but I couldn’t bear to see melancholy on Rhylix’s face, not when it appeared there more often than it rightfully should. I wouldn’t cause it a...

Raimie   Swallowing hard, I stared at the broken tear in front of me. “Wow,” I said with a dry mouth. “Ok. Bright? Dim? You two plan on being helpful?” My splinters were swaying in place with Ele and Daevetch fragments blipping off of the tear to absorb in...