The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 25 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… But San hissed just then, a curse from a millennium gone. “No, we should keep him by us, close and tight. Lot is gone.” “Foolish child,” El…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 24 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… When Ki’s magic came down hard on Du, binding him still, blocking the song of the thing that would have fed his hunger, the half-djinn turned with…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 23 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… Better to wait until there were fewer people, though. Du had drifted away so swiftly, the half-djinn light flaring so bright behind the blacks of his pupils,…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 22 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… “Thank you, Lot,” El said, stepping up beside her and taking her hand like the child she appeared to be. “That was almost more than he could…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 21 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… El stopped before they had the chance to be pushed too far into the public ways, closing her eyes and bracing herself against Lot, who had stopped…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 20 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… Then they reached down, carefully, firmly, and pulled it, burning, from the depths of their flesh and soul. And cast it away into the river’s night, already…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 19 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… Long-fingered hands, now dark and no longer sprinkled with starlight, reached from long-jointed arms upward much further and faster than Ki would have guessed. They wrapped around…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 18 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… Even as they stopped a good ten paces away, the Trawerler lifted its head, somewhat slowly, weary, and gazed around at them. Its expression was remote and…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 17 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 black river water swirled them up, flecks and pieces of black chiton flashing within the ripples of moonlight, tiny, white moons of hosts’ eyes closed away…
The Heart of the Gull Queen’s Huntress This is Installment 16 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 stars, when he could look up and see the sky again, showed barely an hour had passed below, and then that it was barely a quarter…