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148 - You have to Move Eventually

"No," I repeated, glaring into 2nd Amitzas's deadly eyes, with all my spirit, with all my resolve. He was not going to have this death. Gannara was mine."You WILL." His eyes were like razors on me peeling away the skin of my resolve."No." He had no idea how much resolve I had. He had never seen my stubbornness.He held out his hand for the whip. I stared at him for another long moment

147 - Gannara

It took another day of training and another night of prodding before the boy finally managed to either remember or allow himself to choke out his own name to me. It was the middle of the night and he woke up with an all over body start that jolted me, woke me up with a yelp because it hurt. In his sleep he'd turned around again and clung to me like a monkey I had once had. In the dark I

146 - Brothers

My life had opened into an enormous pit of uncertainty and darkness and I could feel that an exile's court was, of necessity, a court of darkness and shadows. Only in the dark could I defy the father of my blood and try to get the true name of the boy I was supposed to be abusing and learning to hate. I thought it through. 2nd Amitzas would take full advantage of his power over me,

Author's Note - Question...

Hi there! I was thinking of doing audio cds of Eclipse Court for purchase, would you be interested?It would be me reading.

In the Triinan Manor

Interlude II Under the Fire

Two slaves stood in the hidden door to the Fire Fountains, watching unseen. As the plumes of fire rose along the Avenue of Statuary, spreading from the Gate, Rikas touched Gian on the shoulder. When his son looked his hands flashed. "Will you go with the sacking army, to kill Arkans?"Gian sighed and signed back… "No. These people… they're not at fault." Rikas grabbed him in a hug."Good for

145 - What Used to be Your Name?

Next morning at dawn, the boy slipped out of the bed and went to get water to wash me. I hurt so badly all over my body that I shook and each tremor hurt as well. I felt sick and my head hurt vilely enough that I couldn't raise it off the pillow. Amitzas came in behind the boy, along with the medic who examined me. "He needs the Imperial additives," he said dryly. "A slightly lesser

145 - What Used to be your name?

Next morning at dawn, the boy slipped out of the bed and went to get water to wash me. I hurt so badly all over my body that I shook and each tremor hurt as well. I felt sick and my head hurt vilely enough that I couldn't raise it off the pillow. Amitzas came in behind the boy, along with the medic who examined me. "He needs the Imperial additives," he said dryly. "A slightly lesser

Interlude: Fig under Siege

"Ienas! Ienas!" It was Kaj, looking more haggard than I'd ever seen him, rolling the wooden cask up the street. It was just rim dawn, casting horridly clear light on the last day the city would exist as we knew it. "I got it!" I had no idea how he did it… Kaj had been helping me since I'd told him my plan to try and save us and the Fig, using and burning his black-market contacts like

144 - You are not Imperator yet

We were heading high now and my City clothes weren't nearly warm enough. Amitzas had some specific destination in mind for us and we reached it by the evening of the second day. I don't remember actually stopping. I must have been asleep when we did for I woke up in a cell-like bare room that had a proper bed in it, a wardrobe and a chair. I felt wretched but crawled out of bed wearing