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Beyond the Waters of the World Ruth Nestvold At a crack of thunder, Kislan looked up from the foreign symbols he had been practicing with ink on parchment. A spring thunderstorm was raging beyond the window of his dockside office. Toni probably would not come in this weather, and he felt a wrench of disappointment. But what did it matter, really? The ambassador from the stars had made it clear she no longer wanted his attentions. At least she also did not want the attentions of any of the other men the women of his house had sent to her. And she had given him this, the drawing-writing. He bent over the paper again, a small smile on his lips. # Mother Anash, the head of the house of Ishel, sent for him to join her in a common room that night. It was strange how the small group of people from the stars, the Ayaissee , had changed his life --had changed all their lives. Or perhaps it wasn't. Just knowing there was another world beyond the night writing in the sky, worlds upon worlds even, made everything |
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