...ea sends her deep into a subterranean cavern where she finds no treasure, but instead bioluminescent worms and a Paladin who calls herself Sjur Eido. If you're looking for a job, Sjur says, I should introduce you to my boss. 4. On the day Nasan finds her calling, the Diasyrm styles he...
...d jobs. They are deliriously happy. Centuries pass. 31. On the day that Sjur Eido dies, she receives a call from Mara Sov. I would ask for my boon, the queen says with shaking voice. It is the first time she dares to trust a Guardian. It will not be the last. 32. The Queen paces ...
...carcely a half-day's burn toward Interamnia before they are intercepted by Galliots painted in the Queen's colors. 25. Woof, Sjur Eido says when she sees Orin for the first time, Mara's gonna hate this. She crosses the detainment cell to get a better look at Gol. Figured this might h...
... be strung only if she twined it around her body and used her whole mass to bend it. I am Sjur Eido, said the woman, and I accuse Mara of the ancient murder of my lady the Diasyrm. In my saddle, I have a weapon with only one death remaining. Take me to Mara, and I will deliver it....
...umble about metric tensors and cosmic microwave anisotropy. Into this feast of ideas came Sjur Eido, searching for the woman who had turned Queen Pin to Eccaleism. Sjur smoldered with an ancient fury, for another thing that the immortal may nurture is everlasting vendetta. Sjur E...
...ra made a dry note in her log that her brother had at last discovered his true people. For her part, Sjur Eido wandered about in a daze, filled with joy to be alive and grief that she no longer knew the day when she would die. In you, all things are possible, she told Mara. I live ...
...ila, daughter of Sila, recognized the scent of Sjur Eido, for smell lies deepest in memory. Esila spoke to Queen Nguya Pin about the presence of an ancient hero in her court. While Queen Pin pondered how to honor this visitor—and simmered over the insult of Sjur's unannounced presence—a spy...
...d CAUST). Begone to the outer world, where I require thee. This was when Sjur Eido, having spoken to Kelda Wadj and to Esila, at last came before her Queen. Kneeling, she said, Your Majesty, Kelda Wadj says you are a god, for there is no difference between your desire and reality. ...
...t into the monsoon jungle to stalk each other. Sjur Eido selected a Tigerspite in 11x90mm with five-round flock guidance and an inertial sump. Uldren chose a silent needle carbine with a conesnail payload. For six weeks, they stalked each other as the political situation grew more...
...ra an image of her family. First it showed her Sjur Eido, laughing and bright with strength, who would recede and later return. Then it showed her Uldren, her brother, who explored the ruins of the fallen worlds and sought out challenges to test himself. Then it showed Mara her ow...
...as never one of the Scribes, and whose coronation would make a wonderful rebuke to the Scribes' remaining ambitions. Sjur Eido meets her by the ship. We'll need a new Queen, Mara tells her, leaping up the side of the ramp. Word on the satellite? Still burning for the Lagrange point. W...
I see our path ahead, full of despair and hardship, and I will walk it with joy in my heart. —Sjur Eido
Sjur snorts and coughs as she wakes herself up from a sound sleep. You were drooling, Mara says. She's perched in a divan nearby. There are books open all around her. She has dog-eared dozens of pages. I was dreaming, Sjur says, wiping her mouth off with the back of her hand. I s...
...ve minutes. Directly off her Hull's bow, a sphere of ultradense mass waits for the moment of implosion and collapse. There will be only moments to transit the wormhole before it evaporates. Flight, Sensor, Sjur Eido calls. I have anomalous starfield occlusions, bearing— Intercept! Mar...
Don't fret. It's a simple expedition. We'll be back before lunch. —Sjur Eido, First Queen's Wrath
Sjur Eido stood slow joints snapping second to none but the Sovs themselves stood straight-backed sharp-sighted pleased to skewer enemies at any distance. Sjur Eido listened close head cocked arrow nocked listened to her Queen's layered lies and heard only the truths as endless courtly...
...loguing cultural markers and ancient records. We'll salvage the Hulls, Mara told Sjur Eido. Pull out the raw materials and the systems we can still use, and bring the biosystems of these hulks back online. Once we have reliable gravity, we can start having babies. We'll need weapons, S...
I have not yet met my true death. —Sjur Eido, First Queen's Wrath
This was on her body, Your Grace. A strange coin lay at the center of Abra's outstretched palm. Mara took it between thumb and forefinger and held up it to the cosmos with dainty contempt. Weregild, she thought. Powerful grief filled her chest, as thick and caustic and heavy as u...
... his four eyes cast down. The first Queen's Wrath was tall and proud and beloved. Sjur Eido saved my life. Saved me from the House of Devils. From myself. But most of all, she also gave me— He paused. I believe the Human word is 'dignity.' Mara smiled wistfully behind her cup, remem...
...that had left an ancient mark. It feels like I've got scurvy, Sjur Eido snarled, having never had scurvy in her life. As if all these old wounds in my soul are opening up again. People keep sending me notes, Mara said. Her sensorium had died in the transit, so the notes came to h...
...d, Sjur Eido says, confirming what Mara already knows, but nonetheless performing the valuable service of mopping away all the blood and tears and allowing Mara to glimpse the actual shape of the wound that divides her people. Not a literal wound (though she is, right now, tending...
.... The Fallen Raiders came down all over the Reef and cut their way inside. The Awoken, young to mortality, terrified of death, fled in fear. Mara, Uldren, and Sjur Eido rallied as many as they could. Sjur fought in a powered combat shell, but Mara needed to be seen vulnerable, silver-haired ...
...Sjur Eido go out into space and kick off the hull, wearing Corsair skin-pressure suits and slim tethers. The stars circle them like hard-focus candles, like the diadems of a trillion dancers. Sjur Eido pulls herself close and touches helmets with Mara. We're alone. What's happened,...
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