They'd been back at school for two weeks.  Enrie was entirely caught up on all her classes, and Taikie was back into reading ahead by at least a week.  Their Instructors had either forgiven them, or, in the case of those more nosy than fretful about academics, had stopped asking what was going o ( Read more... )

It felt strange to be back in school.  Their Instructors had all been told - well, something, at least - by House Monitor Libkazaarie - which meant that Instructor Pelnyen looked at them sideways but everyone else seemed to accept their absence with decent grace ( Read more... )

Happy Tienaabaa's festival to all!  May it find you motivated to creativity and to thought ( Read more... )

Enrie did not know her cousin all that well, but she thought the woman sounded faintly amused ( Read more... )

Enrie winced.  Her friends were not actually helping her case, as much as they might think they were ( Read more... )

Saydrie rescued her. "...we forget that our Emperors' ancestors once had to undergo seven tests to be considered worthy to even be in the succession, and that our Governors and Emperor all were once kalōkāt; war-leaders, leaders who had been proven both in battle and in peace.  We forget that we be ( Read more... )

Enrie turned to look at Gianci.  Everyone else, she noticed, was doing the same ( Read more... )

The cart wasn't chasing them anymore.  A peek around the edge of the wagon showed it tangled and sideways on the side of the road, their goats all happily eating feed or fighting with the harness, trying to get to the food.  Three of the people from the wagon were trying to get the goats loose, p ( Read more... )

Sorry so late, guys!  Not sure what happened to brain ( Read more... )

Their head of school might being blackmailed, but Enrie found herself worrying more about what to pack.  "I don't have anything," she complained to her roommates, who were sleepy and not inclined to help.  "I didn't bring anything..." She was being very vague about where she was going, not because ( Read more... )