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349 - A Mercy, a Mercy

I'm climbing the steps of the Presentation platform. Ilesias is there.  I kneel on the platform and wrap my arms around him.  He will not see me executed, he will die first, I know it. Oh, a mercy, a mercy... 1st Amitzas is there and he has his kit spread out. My brother will be unconscious before Ilesias Mahid cuts his head off.
The crowd is making an ugly noise full of their fear of me and

348 - Kaf and Music and Creme Cakes

"Kyriala?  Are you paying attention to your guests at all?"  Mama hissed in my ear.  "I thought you wanted to have these gatherings to improve mind and attention?"  I snapped my fan open and fanned myself more vigourously than absolutely necessary.

"I was just thinking, mama."
"Think later, my daughter.  I do believe that young Benthasas Monnen has just arrived and you and I need to greet the

Still Vibrating

Hi everyone.  I thought I might be able to pick up the next scene today, but it just never happened... I'm afraid I'll have to try again tomorrow.  It's coming...

First Notes after my Mom's Death

My mother liked roses.  She liked chocolate too.  The dark stuff.  Milk chocolate, in her opinion was for children and invalids.
 I look at her face, on the coffin pillow, and realize it is as empty of humanity as a balloon is of air.It is as obvious as a leaf going brown, though less immediately obvious.  The jumble of emotions cascading through me is very odd.  Certainly not obvious.  I try

Notification

I'm sorry to announce that my posts will be a a little hit or miss for a bit.  My mother died last night and even though I have been expecting this, it is still a shock.

347 - SUCH a MORON!

Gan was back again before the evening meeting.  "I'm going to be going back and forth for a while.  Farasha wants to meet the family.  That means you too, once we figure out what's going to happen with you," he said.  Oh. Of course.  I pasted a smile on my face.  Things just kept getting more and more complicated.

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This set of Scarlet rooms was becoming familiar.  We were let in, with no more

346 - The Worm of Error

I left Gan in the arms of his family, I could see and hear they were immediately celebrating so I nodded at my guard and came… well, home.
I had something on my desk that I had to send up to Chevenga, rising out of his question about what I wanted to do with my life.  I had sat down and taken up my pen a ten of times and couldn't come up anything.
What came out of my mind wasn't a 'plan' it

345 - Everyone Is the Wrong Height

Gannara stopped and sat down on the bench under an oak, tugging at his shirt.  I sat next to him, leaned forward, picked a long hair off Gan's shoulder and brushed an invisible dust-speck off his sleeve.  

"You look very Yeoli, my brother," I said.  He looked so odd, with all odd colours over-dyed with black like his own natural colour.  "You look fine.  Don't worry about it.  I'll wait here

344 - Kallijas knows

Chevenga asked me to come up to speak to Kallijas… to introduce me in my real guise, late the next day and I had enough time to work myself into lather so that I spent a bead in the middle of the night in the Lesser Baths… then couldn't sleep at all.  I was in my cottons, walking the halls, and found myself completely alone, standing in the Great Hall.

I stopped, looked up the Hall, up toward

343 - So Much Unsaid

I straightened my scholar's robe, unnecessarily. I was so nervous I couldn't swallow. I had the man on one of his own tables. He let me in to the Haians… with Misahis's kit in my hands, without a word.  I truth drugged him and broke his left hand. He's my Grandfather.
I feel completely unreal, walking down the stairs to the Mahid section.  I stop and look up at the painting of my ancestor and