Recent content by Sirideán

Ruby took up the spoon and began to push food around in the bowl while it cooled. Zadari was right, of course. He tolerated her because she drew in crowds. She worked with him because he tolerated her. Overall, it was a good relationship for her. No attachments meant she could simply not come to...

Ruby’s eyes followed Emer all the way out the door. The north docks. The Hard Nox. The time given was by no means definitive, but short. She had picked up her roots and left far faster in Grodrock, but she’d had more incentive to do so then. Her customer, speaking with the captain – who might...

On the one hand was the anger, the old bitterness that would not rest easily under the Sky that only watched when the worst became of her. On the other, that small part of her that dared to dream, that dreamed still of the Sky, the star-lit Sky over an ocean as black as the night above, without...