Circle

The room at your mother’s place stops being yours when you tell her that that thing is not going to wake up, ever. She looks at you, and then back at that thing, your twin, hah, as if, you’d know, and shakes her head. “I’m not going to give up.”, she says, and continues moving…

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Carcelan Serpents are born as two. Two of them in the same egg. Twins, always. The Carcelan society is built around it. Mating partners can change, but your twin? Your twin is always with you. (Centuries later you will find that the other species that inhabit the lands beyond the valleys of Carcela do not…

You’re probably wondering why I have gathered you all here tonight

“Sit down, sit down, there’s enough space for everyone, Savatra, can you get more chairs, just smoosh the lines a bit everyone,” Yond calls into the crowd. Wow, that’s a lot of people here. Old faces. New faces. People who think they’re new faces but Yond knows exactly who they are. Not that they know…

Four eyes see more than two

There’s no smoke, no flash of light, not even a slow metamorphosis or shapeshift, or Nasim waking up to find herself transformed, but the actual thing having happened with no one present to witness it, leaving her to find herself changed when she looks into the mirror while brushing her teeth. It’s a clasping of…