A Land Beyond the Palm Trees

Word count:  1.5KWhen I opened my eyes, I was all alone.  It felt like I was floating, and everything around me was a fuzzy shade of grey.  But then, I…

Word count:  1.5KNevada had some sort of way to alert the whole city of what was going on, so while he was doing that I headed for the center of…

Word count:  1.4KThe trip to Eira seemed shorter than it had the first two times I’d travelled it.  I managed to make it to the border by dark, and I…

Word count:  1KThe next morning, I headed to Maccoy with one of the traders from Kiran.  I was looking forward to tomorrow.  Tomorrow, I’d be done with Chanda, and I…

Word count:  1.2KI was definitely hallucinating.  Where had that voice come from?  I glanced around, but there was no one around me.  No human, and no mystic either.  Just black,…

Word count:  1.2KThe next morning, I headed for town.  I knew as soon as I stepped foot into the town square that I was unwelcome, but I didn’t care.  I…

Word count:  1.1KI awoke the next morning to light peeking through the top of the cave.  Fannar was nowhere to be found, but all of my stuff was still in…

Word count:  1.6KLumi’s suggestion was that I cut straight through the lower half of Bora and then through Alpin down to Himesh.  Most of Alpin was excessively snowy, so travelling…

Word count:  0.9KThe mystic was not what I’d expected.  Where Findlay was tall and muscular – as muscular as a chunk of ice could be, anyways – this mystic was…

Word count:  1.6KIt had been dark for a long while by the time we got back to town.  Lumi headed back to the palace, and Tae joined me on my…