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    Sky and Dew
    Sky and Dew
    Sky and Dew
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    Sky and Dew

    By Novae Caelum

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    In the Hallows, words are magic, and words can kill.

    Sky took a vow of silence and left the world above to keep her city's magic alive. Now, she wanders the Hallows as an acolyte of the Lost Emperor - an unseen legend from another world whose words fuel the magic above. But when her lover breaks their vow of silence and falls deathly ill, Sky must descend to the deepest depths of the Hallows to beg the Lost Emperor's help. What she finds, though, is a tragedy that spans centuries, and Sky will stop at nothing to make it right.

     

    Featured in Lambda Award winning Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNovae Caelum
    Release dateAug 12, 2021
    ISBN9798201107413
    Sky and Dew
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    Novae Caelum

    Novae Caelum is an author, illustrator, and designer with a love of spaceships and a tendency to quote Monty Python. Star's had stories in Diabolical Plots, Intergalactic Medicine Show, Escape Pod, Clockwork Phoenix 5, and Lambda Award winning Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction, as well as translated into German and Estonian. Novae is nonbinary, starfluid, and uses star/stars/starself or they/them/their pronouns. Most days you can find star with digital pen in hand, crafting imaginary worlds. Or writing alien poetry. Or typing furiously away at stars serial genderfluid romance novels, with which star hopes to take over the world. At least, that’s the plan.

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      Sky and Dew - Novae Caelum

      Sky and Dew

      Ibrushed my fingertips over my lover’s cheek, their skin growing cold and damp as the stone beneath me. Above us, swirls of color—dancing reds and shades of blue—ebbed back into the world from which they’d come. The incursion of voices in the corridor faded to whispered snatches of conversations, never fully heard. From stories below, the deep murmurs thrummed. The Hallows was safe again.

      My lover’s eyes were open and unseeing. To save us, to save the magic that fed the city above, they had broken their vow of silence and spoken one word with their lips and voice. Now those lips were still.

      I CARRIED MY LOVER to the Chamber of Broken Vows. Blue cold-lights shone in sconces along the polished stone walls, and shadows sat heavy on the rows of still forms laid on slabs. These were all who had broken their vows of silence.

      I hesitated on the threshold. I could already feel the deep chill of the stasis reaction in my lover’s body, aching the bones of my arms and cramping my muscles. I had to lay them on an empty slab soon or frost would overtake them, and they would be truly lost.

      Another acolyte came in, white cold-lantern humming in her hand. She brushed pale hair back from her face under her light blue hood. I did not know her name before she had come to the Hallows, but I called her Daisy in my mind. She reminded me of sunshine, and brighter times.

      She reached a trembling hand to touch my lover’s lips. She looked around us at the other vow-breakers, lying in stasis. Her eyes were wide and glassed with unshed tears.

      Daisy gestured toward my lover, in the simple hand-talk we used. Did they save the

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