“It wasn’t even the fact that he was this bright sunshine of a person while I was an isolated, moody one. It was also the fact that as we grew up, I could see how mother favored him more… Whenever he wrote a poem or shot a bow, she would praise his every move. I felt inadequate in comparison.”
Read More“Máni reached for the chariot reins, ready to pull himself on, as he always did. But tonight, the despair of not reaching his sister fell upon him like an avalanche.”
Read More“Standing amongst the quiet lush landscape of The Elysium, Pat and Les could not deny the fact that they felt connected. That somehow, someway, something powerful than either of them knew predestined this meeting.”
Read More“But train tickets are never free. You cannot be so lucky as to find your destination marked on a discarded ticket on the ground. To travel between the worlds will also cost you, and for some, it costs a great deal.”
Read More“If you don’t want to be in danger, do not cross the Sinamar Bridge at a quiet hour, specifically right between Asr and Maghrib time.”
Read More“‘She could just as easily have taken my life.’
The other man’s gaze flashed with pity. ‘From where I see it, she already has.’”
“He had favorites, of course he did. He strung them into constellations and told stories through them. He let them have a central part of his night sky, so the mortals would see them out, trace the tales, and know that he tried to caution them against too much glory in life.”
Read More“His Icarus reminded him of the story of love, Ariadne’s favorite—one soul living in two bodies destined to walk the earth until they found each other again. He felt it, then, as their fragment of daylight was put to bed and the blanket of night dropped them into darkness.”
Read More“It hadn’t always been like this. Once, the sun had been kind. Once, even a human could fly on a summer day on makeshift wax wings. But no human and no makeshift wings had evolved enough to brave this cruel new sun and give him offerings.”
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