Chapters Two & Three
The road down from the mountain, and the first thing anyone ever tells Tafar about himself that turns out to be true.
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Where you left off. Chapter One closed on a ledge of rock at dawn: dried blood on a torn shirt, unbroken skin underneath, and a traveller sitting on a boulder as though he had been waiting some time.
Chapter Two opens three days later, on the road. Kassim finally answers a question, and the answer is worse than the silence was.
Chapter Three is the lake, and the beginning of the work.
Fourteen chapters left.
The falls, where what he has done his whole life finally gets a name. A tournament he has no business entering. And a night under Imlil when something answers that was never meant to be called.
Know when the next one moves.
Volume Two is in revision. The list is where it is announced first, and for a while, only. One email when there is something real to say.