The hill people were not always Melders. After strife on the coast forced the people to disperse inland, some chose the hills. Preferring...

“Jes? Are you awake?” Jes wanted to summon a snort for Hash, but that was too much emotion right now. She sat on the bed, in much the...

Long ago, before the Melders and the Quarrymen were one people, two brothers were working up in the mines (The Melders came from the hill...

The Festival of Solem was taking over the streets of Bashyr, as it would in every settlement and planet across the system. Golden banners...

It began to rain lightly as evening settled, which Sehkma said was a good omen. Hash put out the banner announcing the telling hour, and...

With the siege of our home, and the scourging of the Mason kingdom, I fear that knowledge of our history might be lost. And you, my...

Jes crossed the street toward a brightly colored complex, with a long, heavy awning that depicting people gathered around a boiling...

“Beside the trickling water of the sacred fountains, wrapped in the soft, cool light of the moon, Did Cicera and Artem meet. It was a...