(Click for links to previous chapters.) The weekly court has been so amusing, I might not even count it when I tell Mynar how much he owes me because, of course, I am going to keep count. Mynar has months of being tormented by his big sister before I forgive him for being so stupid … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 96

(Click for links to previous chapters.) “So why can’t the Clairvoyants see you in visions?” I’ve traipsed down to the vaults again, determined to get some answers, or, more likely, to really frustrate myself. “I didn’t know they couldn’t.” I fight the urge to bang my head against the nearest wall. “Tell me something useful,” … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 95

(Click here for links to previous chapters.) I hurry across the inner bailey of the castle, intent only on running away. I have spent the entire morning having my hair braided, the results rejected, and then braided differently, only to finally have mother decide I had been right, and it looks best in one long … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 94

(Click for links to previous chapters.) Almost two more calm weeks, well.. except for the minor flurry when I associated back cat with Warrior-Sage.  I smile remembering the look on Mynar’s face. Research is his thing, and his older sister isn’t suppose to be able to find out information he hadn’t. I consider it only … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 93

(Click for links to previous chapters.) It feels as if the whole world has taken a deep breath and calmed down. Even father has stopped muttering under his breath. I moped and looked sad, my Ladies became militant, and Mother gently arranged things.  Alan and I are to be married on the first day of … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 92

(Click for Links to previous chapters.) The five of us sit in Mynar’s library getting our stories straight. Alan had magicked us back into workroom and vault, and Lej had concocted a believable story about Mynar, a stool, the top shelf of a book case, and the floor. Jes had just walked back in the … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 91

(Click for links to previous chapters.) Several days pass slowly. Mynar keeps talking history with Murr, and ignoring his hints about the chest. I send out barbers to the mercenaries, supposedly to clean them up as befits Alan’s dignity (yes, Alan did laugh himself silly when I warned him of my lie), but really to … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 90

(Click for links to previous chapters.) I think about slamming the door to father’s library as I leave, but don’t because he wants to annoy me, and I’m not about to let him know he has succeeded.  After two or three grandchildren he will probably get over me marrying a magic-user—no matter what we name … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 89

(Click for links to previous chapters.) Of course Mynar isn’t going to invite a stranger into his library, among his books. Daver just reconfigures one of the lesser state rooms for the meeting with Murr; he didn’t even have to think about my problem, which made me wonder if he had done similar in the … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 88

(Click for links to previous chapters.) Alan, Mynar, Jes and Lej are all huddled in Mynar’s library, searching grimoires, lore, and histories for any rumor of animal sacrifice in spells, so it falls to me to show Hunk the village, and make him and his group our offer. “We can live in the houses?” Not … Continue reading Spire: Chapter 87