Category Archives: Chapter 02

Ch2-1: Shadow Hunt

This is all your fault, you know? AsaHi grumbled to herself as she shifted the aching weight of the traveling pack on her shoulders. All she had done for the past three days was walk, and it was starting to more »

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Ch2-2: Kaze

Patterns of light trickled down through the leaves, dappling AsaHi’s face. The speckles seeped through her closed eye lids, tugging her awake from depths of the calm sleep. She woke to the instant knowledge that the events from the night more »

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Ch2-3: Crash Course in Life

“That’s sorta right. Try doing it more like this,” AsaHi leaned down into the stream’s current, allowing her hair to flow with the water’s silver tide. She carefully demonstrated a thorough hair-washing using the fingers of both hands. It was more »

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Ch2-4: Firemaker

They had been traveling together for a number of days when the fire-maker vanished. AsaHi searched her pack nearly twenty times over. She dumped everything out, including the pockets on the outside, all to no avail. It was absolutely nowhere more »

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Ch2-5: Ill Omen

AsaHi stood knee-deep in the cool flow of the mountain stream. Between her hands she held the heavy wet cloth of an apron-turned-fish-net. Her green eyes watched the darting flashes of silver fish as they scattered away from her shadow more »

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Ch2-6: ZenToYa

“I can’t believe it!” AsaHi stared at the map. She turned it upside down. She turned it backwards and forwards. No matter how she looked at it, it said the same thing. “The map says it should be right here. more »

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Ch2-7: Wayrift

They look exactly like the statues I saw at the Host Gate! AsaHi craned her head back, staring up at the monolithic stone dragons that arched over the small rock clearing. Their eyes were hooded in deep shadow, giving them more »

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