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28 - The Moon Broke Into Pieces

I got caught up with one of my essays for my tutor, and I’d tell him I wasn’t inclined to do the other two pieces, even though I’d done all the reading. I couldn’t make the words come, they swam in front of my eyes and I ended up doodling bloody images, swords and axes and severed limbs all along the edges of my essay, instead.Dinner that night was a display of layers. I was supposed to be

27 - Chapter Six: Ten Silver Horses

There was a light rain that afternoon, the wispy clouds turning the sky pale and then gray and cleansed the city but did nothing for my spirit. I thought of Raikas, finally released, in his room at the Mezem. I hoped he was sleeping.Tobeas caught up to me after I escaped Ailadas and before I could vanish into one of the libraries. He never seemed to figure out when I disappeared that was where I

26 - End of the Execution and Clean Up

I had to witness the end of the execution as well as the beginning but since I knew it was coming it wasn’t as much a shock and I was better prepared to answer my father when he spoke to me.I admit that morning I was awful. I sent back my breakfast twice, ate half and hurled the other half at the Purveyor of the Morning Wear. He had a tunic for me that was white and it was the last colour I

Author's Note

Hey guys, how goes it? Just to let you know Blogger is going to have a scheduled outage Thursday at 2 a.m.Just to remind everyone -- I'm hoping that if you like the book you'll donate to the cause. Anything over $200 dollars will stimulate me to write a bonus story. Let me know if there's a character you'd like to see more of, or a character who you'd like to see the point of view of, let me

25 - Punishment Continued

I managed to swallow what my father wished me to eat, successfully told him which additives were in which dish.My father was in a very expansive mood. He mistook my horrified fixation on the punishment going on before us for his own enthrallment. “More wine,” I said. There was a sheen of spattered sweat and the first spots of blood on the Presentation Platform. Then 2nd Amitzas clapped his

24 - Punishment

I was in my school-room, listening to Ailadas discourse about the economics of the north western provinces. I’ll admit my attention was on the bead clock, waiting for the Noon bead to drop. That was when he would let me go for the court luncheon. That was when a servant came. “Spark of the Sun’s Ray, your Imperial Father requires your presence immediately.”I rose, and nodded to Ailadas. “I

Author's Note!Just a quick note to let my readers know......

Author's Note!Just a quick note to let my readers know... I should have posted tonight, but could not manage. I will, instead post tomorrow. After that my next post will be Tuesday. It's a heavy one; stay tuned!Hope you all have a wonderful Easter Weekend!

22 - Civics lesson and a lot of shouting.

I went downstairs from the Director’s apartment and made a servant fetch me that glass of wine, and a chair to sit in front of Raikas’s door. Tathanas would have vetted it. I sipped and made a face. It was a raw Kurkanian and I left it on the little hall table. I lit my own katzerik, reveling in the small freedom outside Jitzmitthra, tipped the chair back on two legs and blew a smoke ring up at

21 - Chapter Five: Raikas's Second Fight

Next day everything went back to normal. I had to wait to do anything, and the never-ending round of protocol began again. The schedule Ailadas had set me was stiffer than anything I’d done before and I resented him for it. Jitanzas had never pushed me so hard.It was around that time that I decided to send a note to Brias Mil Foras, architect. I had noticed that the boys in the Mezem had said

20 -- Chapter 4 End, Lesser Baths, Mail and Washing the Streets

This morning, before I conceived the plan to take Raikas out to dinner, I’d sat in the middle of my bed, my knees pulled up to my chin. Binshala was just putting my breakfast tray down, trying to be discrete because she wasn’t supposed to be serving me during Jitz.“Binshala?”“Yes, Sp… Minis?”She came over and pulled the ends of my hair out of my mouth. “Don’t do that, kid. You’ll shorten it.”“If