Chapter 24 The Grand Ballroom bustled with courtesans, as entitled people with lavish trinkets attended the summit. The attendees mingled, opulently Virtue signalling as the gentry often did. Back and forth above their sparkling flutes of expensive liquors, whilst indulging in their personal debaucheries. A dandy but a deceitful way of life thought Ash Vani, […]
Chapter 23 The morning was colder than it had been recently. The skies were gloomy and overcast. The only other signs of life were the black shapes of the birds above the horizon. They ascended over the river in a delta formation as the ships Slowly drifted until. Eventually, they found their moorings at the […]
Chapter 22 The four of them scurried along the twisty turny narrow alleyways of the city. Running under open skies and archways like harvest mice as their hair and garments rustled like streamers that followed their path closely through the air until at last, they found themselves standing still at a small unfrequented square. Amongst […]
Chapter 21 The light was blinding as Brownie wandered attached to the others like a human/animal chain, she could hear a ringing in her ears from far away as the first sensation that hit her was the cool breeze and the sound of the ocean. The smell of the briny sea Found her nostrils as […]
Chapter 20 Life is like a reunion, and that’s how I first met you. Brownie was thinking about the prose of the Martian poetry in her mind it didn’t seem to make complete sense to her, it seemed somewhat contradictory, the deeper meaning escaped her. How can someone be reunited and meet for the very […]
Chapter 18 Tumjai cast his thoughts back to Those days… the dormant memories lied scattered so far away like shadows. He recalled the small rooms in the embassy that were dimly lit, they were cramped like small interrogation rooms and only scarcely decorated. Amongst the fixtures and fittings were pictures of majestic misty volcanoes that […]
Chapter 16 What becomes of the broken hearted? An open window, open just a crack let in the morning scent of lyger blossoms, it was well known that lyger stimulated virility, and it was often found around the palace grounds. Min often sat studying her every line reflected in the mirror that sat across from […]
Chapter 15 Why do I get a nudibrym, and you get a mantilla?” Protested the young attaché vee vee. Ūna looked back towards him with a sardonic grin” don’t knock Rex he’s been my faithful squire for many a year!” The mantilla (Ibliss) was jet black; his kind were amongst the best mode of transport […]
Chapter 14 “Are you sure it’s this way?” Asked Brownie doubtfully as they walked up the gradual incline that seemed to get higher and higher. the three of them looked a weathered motley crew as they followed the steps that passed innocently by the ancient stone piles that were periodically assembled by the wayside? It […]
Chapter 12. The forest edge, at the woodcutter’s station. The two pottered about the small encampment, keeping themselves busy. Brownie mulled over the events of the previous 48 hours; it was hard to digest, like something out of a horror movie, it made her head hurt thinking about it. The dusk was encroaching again, and […]