Tag: science fantasy

The morning came with the steady hush of Aelora’s twin suns warming the dew off the windows, spilling golden light through the front of the Morrow’s Hollow Hotel. The lobby smelled of citrus cleaner and freshly baked bread—because Virelya insisted on doing both before seven. Her footsteps padded quietly across the tile as she adjusted…

It wasn’t uncommon for him to leave the hotel after dinner. Of course, never without saying goodnight to his mother—he knew better than to sneak off without a word. Not because she’d truly be furious, but because she’d make a point of being disappointed, and that was somehow worse. Still, tonight she seemed well distracted…

It likely worked in both their favours—though for very different reasons—that Joslyn had propped herself at the galley table and drifted into a light doze. For her, a moment to reset. For him, space to work without distraction. Blue moved through the familiar rhythms of docking like a quiet current—smooth, practiced, unerring. The Kestrel Dawn required no…

The skies of Brynoth churned with clouds of vermillion red, acrid sulfurous smoke filling the air as the city of their king burned again as it had one hundred years ago. As it had one hundred years prior to that. For five millennia, a rift cut into the very realm had opened up and unleashed…