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Introduction Book 2: Touch the Sky

Date: 839 Passes Ago The world was painted the color of blood. A blur of campfire smoke rose to mingle with the sky’s heavy underside. The clouds streaked overhead in accelerated motion, cold shafts of energy tracing over the massive more »

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Ch5-1: Dreams of Darkness

SoYa sat bolt-upright in bed, a haze of sweat and fear clouding his eyes. “Just a dream!” he gasped. “A dream! It couldn’t be real, it was all just a…” His voice wavered, grew weak and faded. “Dream…” No. I’m more »

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Ch5-2: KudakoRe

AsaHi watched with a distant frown as the blue rift-glow returned. She sat perched on a rock next to a waterfall, a place she returned to more and more often. It was nice to dip her feet in the pool more »

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Ch5-3: Dragon’s Throne

“Well, well. Look what the Dragon dragged in.” At the sound of the voice, both AsaHi and Kudako turned, peering straight into the grinning face of ZenToYa. “If it isn’t the Prince of Scamps himself,” Kudako growled softly. “Who let more »

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Ch5-4: Dreigiau’s Story

Because something about you called to me. Lord Zemi’s words to AsaHi echoed in SoYa’s mind. He pondered them. Scoured them for their true meaning. Try as he might, he just couldn’t figure out why a single statement could make more »

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Ch5-5: Burning for Wings

It was a smudge. It turned into a blot. That turned into a spot. That turned into a Mark. That turned into a puddle. That turned into a pool. That turned into his reflection on the still, inky darkness. He more »

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Ch5-6: Rendered Meaningless

“Is it really true?” AsaHi asked. Zemi turned his attention from the open window to peer down at her. The girl tromped up next to the Dreigiau with a you-will-answer-my-question determination in her eyes. “Is what really true?” his gravely more »

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Ch6-1: Memory’s Haze

SoYa was sitting there, just like every other time that TsuYa woke. His mind faded in and out, carried on waves of restless sleep and nausea. Everything was fuzzy in his vision. Everything was faded and grey in his memory. more »

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Ch6-2: The Game Plan

“So, tell me boys, what’s the game plan?” Aunt SaRa cornered the two men immediately. “Game plan?” Zento asked innocently. “Morh-SaRa, I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Kudako added in an evasive tone. Though Aunt SaRa was dwarfed more »

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Ch6-3: Shades of Truth

“I don’t understand,” TsuYa’s tone was low with distress. “I know you don’t,” was Father’s only answer. “Then why are you leaving? We’ve only just found each other again!” he argued. “Because sometimes you have to do things in life more »

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Ch6-4: Desperation’s Fury

It was raining down on the Mainland. SoYa found this fact puzzling because he had not expected it. It hadn’t been raining earlier in Ceiswyr. Then again, it probably never rains up there. It must be one advantage of living more »

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Ch6-5: Mending Matters

They found a cave to take shelter in for the night. Though it was surprisingly warm inside once the fire was lit, their clothes were already soaked from the biting rain. It left AsaHi with a deep, bone-chilling coldness that more »

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Ch6-6:Hidden Gaze

She’s looking at me again. Or at least, that was the feeling TsuYa got from the strange little girl. He didn’t know how she could see anything through the white cloth that was tied across her eyes. But the way more »

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Ch7-1: Flickers of the Past

“Master Kudako?” “Hrm?” the Dragon peered up from where he was assembling the timber for the fire. “What is that dark area out there?” AsaHi pointed. The sky was shifting into deep amethyst tones, the sparking hints of starlight poking more »

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Ch7-2: Upon the Cleft

“Heellloooooo—” -lllooo -lloo -lo AsaHi grinned in delight as her voice echoed back at her from the cleft below. It’s not such a spooky place now that I can see it in full. In fact, Dragon’s Cleft was rather inspirational. more »

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Ch7-3: Broken Boundaries

SoYa hissed as a sharp, stinging pain sliced through his upper arm. His defenses fell as the last of his concentration shattered away. The pain leapt on him from every direction, long, thin slits of agony rippling across his body. more »

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Ch7-4: Suzume

The sunshine was perfect. The twittering birds were perfect. The way the grass played in the wind was perfect. The sparkling blue spray of water streaming down into the pond was perfect. The sound of the leaves sighing in harmony more »

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Ch7-5: Banished One

“ZZZZZZZERRRRROOOOOOOOM!” Zemi’s roar thundered through the foundations of the Wayfringe. Lucid essence folded in upon itself as the luminous cloud of white energy churned violently into existence. As if the force was too massive to contain, the dimensional threads shuddered, more »

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Ch7-6: Edge of Chaos

A terrible, forlorn howl shattered the calm of the shadowed-shrouded hills, startling AsaHi out of her half-asleep state. Frightened, her green eyes darted across the fire towards where the others were sitting. Kudako’s ears were flattened back against his skull. more »

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Ch7-7: Going Back

“AsaaaaaHiiiiiiiii?” She heard a voice cry out her name. Then another voice echoed it. The girl blinked awake at the sound, eyes blurring as the sunlight hit her full force. It took a long moment before she remembered where she more »

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Ch7-8: JouKa

TsuYa sat at the edge of the Island. Every morning he came to watch as the fog burned away. It unfurled in a silent ritual until the mountains below emerged a deep green-grey, like a gift offered up, cupped in more »

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Ch7-9: Cleft’s Passage

“I sure hope he knows where he’s going,” SoYa muttered, half to himself, half to the plume of white that tracked his breath in the cold air. It felt as if the temperature had plummeted at least ten degrees with more »

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