#SFFS Work in Progress Snippet
Sorry I missed last week, but we’re back in action with this latest snippet from my work in progress. I’ll be posting the first chapter and then moving on to something else. Luckily, the early draft first chapters are often horrendously long.
The metro station couldn’t be seen from this part of the village. It was on the other side of the mountain-sized dune that separated this village from the next. Both settlements had arisen after the tube had been built, the same year that Wona hatched. Towns used to form around water; now they formed around access to the city. Wona raced towards the purple sand mass, occasionally using her front limbs to propel herself forward.
At the edges of her vision, she spotted a shape flying across the pink sky, a woman with wide translucent wings extending out from her arms and legs. Wona recognized the woman, though not by name. She lived in the next village, and ran a shop where Wona’s nest father sometimes bought items imported from the city. The satchel Wona carried was from that store. The shopkeeper’s eyes met hers for an instant and Wona froze, for the gaze held no sign of sentience or intelligence.
