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fellow Warriors (and Snippeteers)!
It's time for snips and bits of amazing tales by talented
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This week's snippet is from "The Sands of Dhor". Lily, abducted from Earth by alien slavers, is following Theusand. They've left the section of the ship where he and his Chays (monks) are quartered. It's the first time she's left that deck since Lord Sand rescued her from the slave fight ring in the belly of the ship. The last line last week was: She was living every terrifying, scifi-dystopian novel she’d ever read.
This week's snippet is from "The Sands of Dhor". Lily, abducted from Earth by alien slavers, is following Theusand. They've left the section of the ship where he and his Chays (monks) are quartered. It's the first time she's left that deck since Lord Sand rescued her from the slave fight ring in the belly of the ship. The last line last week was: She was living every terrifying, scifi-dystopian novel she’d ever read.
Here we go...
A
smile spread from his lips up to those two chips of blue-ice eyes, making them twinkle. “Every tale begins with a bit of truth, even when
you label it fiction. You should not be afraid, Earth Lily. Once you see Teauche Brigard
and accept it as your world, you will understand it is a good system.”
She took a slow, deep breath and willed her voice to be steady. The conversation had to change; the focus
needed to be on something other than his persistent delusion that she was going to his planet--and that she'd be happy there. Since there was no weather to ask about, she voiced the second safe topic that popped into her mind. “Tell me about the people who crew this ship.”
“As
I said, they are good people. They are—"
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