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71 - Mourning

The question gnawed at me all through the rest of my lesson and all through the Noon meal. I gorged, forcing down each extra bite. Father was pleased that I was showing more and more appetite like him.After the meal was the first time I could slough off a lesson. Ailadas would search the Marble Palace in vain for me when I did not show up. He'd probably eventually ask the guard if I'd gone

Still not quite tracking...

Hey guys... sorry but I'm still down... I ended up in emerg for about three hours last night, blood tests, x-rays, pee in a cup, the whole nine yards... no answers yet... but I'm scheduled for an ultrasound Sunday so whatever this inflammation is will hopefully surrender to the antibiotic and sulfides they've got me on!And I wish I had a few more Tylenol 3's... sigh...I'll write again soon, I

[Guest author's note : Shirley "phones in" sick]

Hi Eclipse Court readers:Shirley is so down with fever (4 degrees again) that she asked me to post letting you know that she won't be posting today. If she's up to it she'll post tomorrow or Saturday, answering the question of who offed himself down at the Mezem. Send healing vibes her way!-Karen Wehrstein

70 - I try Arkan Herb for the first time

I left the Winter Palace that day, the last day of the year, to go back to the city in time for Jizmitthra. This year my costume was bones. Not a skeleton, but bones hung around me, clattering and banging, a big weird skull over my head with a cow’s horn on one side and an antler on the other. It was the child’s nightmare version of the Summoner to Death, long steel claws on leather-strapped

69 - Like two strange dogs.

While the truth drug wore off, I called Mil Loren. “You will have to hire another clerk to keep track of my kennel expenses. I’ve just hired Inthilin Amras as my new estate’s administrator.” “He came up on his own initiative, and I liked that.” I hadn’t picked one of the career clerks my secretary had presented. I guess I’d have to teach him what my taste in servants was. He’d never had to

68 - Is there something you wouldn't like me to know?

"By the third day of interviewing I was very, very tired of my own clerks and accountants and petty bureaucrats. What did I expect? I knew them. I knew the common practises. The struck me as self-serving and pinch-faced and grasping. Not one would I trust with the secret of my freed Yeolis. And then on the third day I find a young clerk, Inthilin Amras, being both sneaky and honourable at

67 - Give this man a dose of truth drug

I clutched my job record in its folder. My gloves were clammy damp from nervous sweat. I shouldn’t be this nervous. My immediate superior didn’t actually know I was here, out of the city, waiting to be interviewed for the new position for the Spark of the Sun’s Ray. I was using one of my holidays and rather than pay for a place in a post carriage, since I was throwing every penny into my

Kahara, who is this kid, really?

I walk quietly out of the hut, trying to get used to the feel of air on my naked scalp. Kahara bless, it was better than anything I’d thought was going to happen to us even a few days ago. I had only just had time to get used to the idea that I not only wasn’t I dead in defense of Yeola-e but that I was alive and a slave.The ship they’d stuck us on had been a nightmare and it had almost been

Author's Note

Hi Guys!Minis tells me he's got lots of candidates... so he'll be interiewing today. I need to finish a chapter of another project... I will be posting tomorrow.Enjoy!

65 - I am disappointed

My secretary, Tirias, came in after she left, looking harried. “Spark of the Sun’s Ray, this lowly one is abjectly apologetic… the slaves’ papers…”He looked more than harried… he looked sick. I finally realized. “Mil Loran, don’t worry. The papers are in my keeping. Sit down. You may have a cup of kaf if you like.”Tirias blinked at me. The Winter Palace was less formal, but I had never