#saydrie

We must always remember to be better than bears

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Saydrie’s dreams were full of phantoms – his family being sent to the four coasts, his mother living up in the iciest parts of the north, being separated from his friends by a thick wall of bars and sometimes by pieces of paper listing out regulations, Enrie high on a throne demanding that he go away and live in a cave like a proper Byittie ought…

You Find Your Family in Your Tent

House Monitor Libkazaari had not been all that interested in punishing any of them, and had made sure they reached their next class in plenty of time.  Discussions of the Bitrani possible-rebellion during their classes and some whispers of trouble in the upper echelons of the royal family managed to push the issue of Instructor Tiemaktamiek from their minds by…

To be an enemy, you must be an actual threat 

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“I still think that you have absolutely no sense of self-preservation.”

Riensin had been going on about the same thing since left the princess behind.

“Do you think I could paint her?  Do you think she’d say yes if I asked nicely enough?  Sketches, I did a couple sketches-”

Kekla hadn’t eaten more than three bites of her lunch.  She’d been too busy…

Think of Your Own Goat, Your Own Tent, Your Own Soul First

“It doesn’t make sense,” Taikie complained.  “Although everything connected to Humanic Aether seems like a bunch of – of philosophy – to me.”

Saydrie winced.  She was going to offend the Princess.  They didn’t want that, couldn’t afford that, or at least, he couldn’t.  He’d already gotten one royal woman angry with him, even if she hadhad…

Bow Today, Bow Tomorrow, But Always Stand Straight in the End

“Thank you, your Highness.”  Saydrie stood and bowed at the same time and somehow managed not to topple over.  The Calenyena had far too much bowing in their lives.

“Saydrie!”

He shifted, caught himself, and straightened up, barely managing not to knock over the chair and somehow dropping his bag and shoving a book off the table, all…

What Everyone Knows is most often not true

“I know that you have dinner soon, but perhaps you could spare  me a few moments? There is a table right over here,” she gestured. “And I promise you that I will make sure you’re still to dinner on time.”

Saydrie swallowed.  He didn’t really have a lot of choice.  What else was he going to do? “Of course, your Highness.”  He made another deep bow. “What…

What Causes Bad Aether?

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They each had a list.  Saydrie thought it was a little strange, but it had made both fo his teammates happy, so he had written it off as a Calenyena trait and taken his third of the list.

The questions were: Why do the Bitrani know about bad aether and the Calenyena don’t?

What causes bad aether?

Why do the Bitrani know about HUMANIC aether and the Calenyena don’t?

What…

There is nothing in blood except everything

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They met in their little hide-out after dinner.  Enrie had vanished into the library for several hours; Taikie had vanished and he didn’t know where to.  Saydrie, trying to hide from everyone who seemed to want to follow him around, had run some errands in town.  Town, strangely, seemed to be the safest place right now.

He hadn’t been to town alone…