Khy'eras

Shahira straightened and lowered her arms. Soltaevar did not seem as flattered by her effusive greeting as she would have liked; in truth he looked and sounded uncomfortable. She hid her disappointment, concealing it expertly behind her smile. "An excellent suggestion, Ahtair," she said wi...

An unfamiliar voice spoke up behind them. Shahira turned with Ahtair to look at the speaker, her expression softening at once from feigned rebuke to one of mild interest. The man was not immediately familiar for all that his height, eyes and bearing easily distinguished him from everyone else on the...

Shahira stood beside Ahtair and stared contemplatively out across the water. Indistinct to the eye except as a kind of gray haze, the mist shrouding Khy'eras from the rest of the world blurred the horizon into near nonexistence. She did not remember sailing through it the first time, as a child bare...