>> pirouettes She assumed she was in the airship’s jail and it felt like it had been quite a while. Holli did not remember waking up. Or rather when she did, it wasn’t the same as waking from sleep. Her eyes were already open and she was staring at the opposite wall […]
Read more "The Chance — Fourth Chapter">> snakes in her hair She had reached a river. She knew it was a river and she hadn’t circled back to the ocean like a dumbass because she could see the opposite shoreline, forested with mangroves the same as this side. It was a pretty good distance. Wide as the river looked, this […]
Read more "The Chance — Third Chapter!!">> a pointing finger “And now folks, we’ve rejoined our intrepid heroine,” Holli mutters under her breath, “to find her creeping cautiously through the middle—better yet, the midst, or no, amidst—what appears to be, at least I suppose to the educated members of our viewing audience, a mangrove swamp. One which furthermore qualifies both as […]
Read more "The Chance — second chapter"The Prince. Immediately that was how she thought of him, though at the same time she wasn’t entirely certain she knew what that word meant. She could not have put it into words, except it meant a person like him, looking the way he did. And there was a further, closer sense of familiarity, as […]
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