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"Thank you Lady Hengeyokai."
"You're welcome and thank you, Lady Zai."
Gael mused to herself as she pressed a thumb to a data pad to 'sign' the land rental agreement she and Jubilynn had worked over. Over six and a half centuries, she'd gained quite a few names, with Zai Xian, the name given to her by Mother Varahi upon the advent of her becoming a registered Companion, being the newest. Now, as liason, as she thought of it, to the Botany Bay colony, it seemed…
ContinueIn every weyr, over every hold,
Green and blue, brown, bronze and gold,
Does every dragon keen
In sorrow for the queen.
Killashandra's voice is stilled.
The Rowan's eyes with tears are filled,
Among the stars, Helva weeps.
For Anne McCaffery now forever sleeps.
Anne McCaffery passed away on Novermber 22 at the age of 85. Hers were not the first books of science fiction I had read and to which I had thrilled, but Pern…
ContinueI lost my virginity when I was fifteen.
The boy's name was Etienne, he was the captain of our high school's ice hockey team and a fourth year student to my first year. It was the eyes, I'll freely admit. Sparkling blue under slightly messy dark brown hair. I sighed for a week, maybe two, then managed to work up enough nerve to say hello and fully expected him to either not say anything to me or to say something very nasty.
"Hey, You're...Miriya, right?" Was…
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When I was fourteen, Master Qing decided it was time for me to display my talents upon a larger stage. To that effect, he and I, along with Darien and Jennifer, traveled to Montreal for a martial arts display and tournament. When we arrived, I realized it was the North American Championships. He had me enrolled in both the breaking demonstrations, skills display and the actual, full contact tournament. That last, while I felt confident enough to be in, required some string pulling on Master…
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I had mentioned previously that Elspeth was not a witch. That did little to stop others from calling her that behind her back or more openly to me. She had no altar in the house or in the woods outside, no fire with cauldron bubbling away over it. She did not cackle; her laughter was actually quite infectious most of the time. But she did not attend church services and had little time to spare on those few occassions when some priest or preacher decided to pay us a visit 'for the benefit of…
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Her name was Jennifer Twoeagle and I found myself very surpised to discover we were virtually neighbors! Her father ran the air charter service next to the lodge and cabins Elspeth and I lived next to.
Now, I suppose some of you wonder how I could have gone so long in my life and not run into her before this. I suppose the proper answer is that I had. Definitely in school but, considering I tended to be the target of taunts and other torments, I didn't really notice those few…
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The next two years or so, while not necessarily uneventful, can be summed up like this: I attended school from Monday through Friday, came home, did my homework and chores around the house or outside as circumstances and weather required. I would watch television some evenings but more often would listen to the radio or sometimes Elspeth would read to me or we'd play games. On Fridays after school she would take me into North Bay and I would stay with Master Quing until Sunday evening;…
ContinueElspeth used her connections and called in favors and, soon enough, whatever records of Miriya Kyirsocs having been born or lived in Prague became...irrelevant. After all, when several thousand people fled to avoid the Soviets, of what importance is a baby only a few months old? I doubt I was even noted enough for some bureacrat to mutter a 'good riddance' over.
Thus, I came to have an 'official' birth certificate that said I was born in Toronto, Ontario on 1 April, 1968 to a…
ContinueIn the year 1968 AD, the city of Prague in the nation of Czechoslovakia was like many other major cities on Earth. Cosmpolitan, cultured, urbane, a center for trade and the dealings that keep a city and a nation operating. And, like many cities of the time, it was a hotbed for unrest. A great war was over twenty years in the past yet the people of the city and the nation found themselves oppressed and restricted by policies put in place by those who had deemed themselves liberators of the…
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Gael sits in an upper room of the Companion Guild dormitory, seated at a table beneath an open window looking out over the nighttime seascape and the stars making their slow procession through the night sky. These stars serve as the only illumination in the room. To her eyes, though, the sheaf of papers and a few pens sitting on the table before her are as visible as if it were noontime. The gentle sounds of water lapping at the sands of the beach, the gentle stirring of one…
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