This is just a post with some notes on Irish fairies. I am posting this to see if I can get a bit of feedback on spelling from interested Irish speakers over on Reddit. because I transliterated a lot of the spellings from the Irish alphabet, I’m suspicious that I might have mis-transcribed some letters:…
Update on absence
Hi everyone. Just a quick update. I had a number of things all fall into the same two weeks. My partner has gone back to study, and she had both an assignment due and an exam (so the kids needed more than usual looking after on my part), I had a deadline for some contract…
Sharp are the Teeth of Pearl #32
At the northern gates, day-to-day folk and refugees alike were crowding out of the way, forming huddles to the left and right. They were keeping clear of a stream of guardsmen, many of whom looked rather hastily armed and dishevelled as they ran through the gates. Samakarantha followed at a hurried but respectable stride. The…
Sharp are the Teeth of Pearl #31
“No,” said Caewen. “Waylay me, or do not. But do not think I will submit to you. Not now. Not ever.” “My shadow, oh, my shadow! Listen to me. Look at me. I cannot be whole with you walking the world. And you cannot be whole with me in the world either. Why force yourself…
Sharp are the Teeth of Pearl #30
The morning passed uneventfully for Caewen. She walked along the thin and grey-brown stretch of dirt that marked itself upon the land, curling over the brows of hills and dipping through valleys. The countryside showed signs of pasturing and cropping–old drystone walls and hedgerows laid out in straggly lines–but there were few enough kine or…
Sharp are the Teeth of Pearl #29
Matty Nutch did not sleep that day. He had too much of a feeling that something unsettling was lurking just out of view. He wandered about the fringes of his little township, circling it three times, and sending out his twin spirits to range and hunt in forms both visible and invisible. After some two…
Working Title Change: Sharp are the Teeth of Pearl
I’ve switched the working title of the current book in the Caewen series to Sharp are the Teeth of Pearl. This is a reference to a couple things in the story, and should make sense by the end of the current novel. I was planning for this to be the final book in the series….
Sharp are the Teeth of Pearl #28
The room that Caewen was shown to was pleasant enough. The elderly ladies fussed and gossiped amongst themselves, seemingly unaware of their guest’s discomfort. Caewen kept protesting tiredness, and eventually, she was left alone. Somewhat to her surprise, the door sported a heavy bolt of flaky black iron on the inside. Caewen slid it shut…
Sharp are the Teeth of Pearl #27
Caewen spent the next hour or so nursing the mug of ale while making the best of the cheeses and dried fruits, honey cakes, roasted nuts and salted breads that were brought out and set upon the trestle tables. She looked around, watchful. After starting in on the ale a little too thirstily, she now…
Sharp are the Teeth of Pearl #26
After breakfast, Caewen collected her gear, pulling on her cloak of flowers and taking up Fetch in his satchel. When she was satisfied she had everything belted and strapped on, she went back down to the common room, paid for the night, and strode out into the white suffused light of midmorning. Matty Nutch was…