Once again, I’ve just posted the last installment of my most recent SSCS, and now it’s time to chat a bit about the story. If you’ve been unsure about this one and waiting to read it (you can start with the first installment here), maybe this post will pique your curiosity enough to give it a try. Or, if you read along and have thoughts about what you just read, maybe this will stir them around a little. Either way,…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 34 of this year’s SSCS (the final installment!). If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… And yet this new guard walked in from outside. And spoke to her comrades about how they should bind and hold this new prisoner. …
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 33 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… The last of the other people, the strange horde, flickered out behind Lot, and she turned then to Ki, a crawling blackness of unreality flickering around her…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 32 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… They did not have time to protect the Gull Queen, or any within the mob who might be innocents carried along by the twisting of the binding…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 31 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… The words held more power than they ought to have. At the speaking of ‘peace’, Du felt a longing so strong wash over him that he nearly…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 30 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… She lay supine on the floor of a small chamber at the end of the passageway, nested upon and wrapped or covered in something like rags, and…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 29 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… “My mistress breathed this morning.” A quiet wail, the Salt Queen’s Avatar, her Emmissary and keeper of, of all things, her Breath, showed himself convincingly pale, and…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 28 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Without needing to be told, seeing all as El shaped it, Ki climbed swiftly, seeming to tread upon the air, their thin form a white blur arrowing…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 27 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… Only El and Ki stayed grounded in the center of this sweet storm of sound, Ki with hand up-raised and pressing side-long against it, long, pale fingers…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 26 of this year’s SSCS. If you want to start at the beginning of ‘The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress’, go here! If you want to know what the heck an SSCS is, go here! (And the character list is here.) Previously… The flesh would need to rest, its magic to be let to cure into the magic of the horde (we all), but already Lot could look outward…