Tales from a Magical Teashop: Tea Princess Chronicles, #0.5
By Casey Blair
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Add a dash of joy and imagination to your day with tales of a magical tea that summons cats to snuggle or enables its recipients to exhale sparkles, hilarious combat with aggressive fantasy ingredients while others turn invisible out of shyness, and the day-to-day management of a shop dealing in the unexpected. These are quick stories ranging from silly to bittersweet that can be read as you wait for your tea kettle to boil.
Tales from a Magical Teashop is a stand-alone short story collection set in the world of Tea Princess Chronicles that functions as an introduction to the series with hidden gems for those who've read it, featuring scenes set in a shop serving teas made from magical ingredients as well as bonus scenes from the perspectives of fan-favorite characters.
Brew up a cup of tea, and enjoy a little interlude away at a magical teashop!
Light-hearted, comforting, and satisfying, brighten your day with a collection of magical teashop stories from the world of the cozy fantasy series Tea Princess Chronicles.
Casey Blair
Casey Blair writes adventurous fantasy novels for all ages, including the completed cozy fantasy series Tea Princess Chronicles and the novella Consider the Dust. After graduating from Vassar College, her own adventures have included teaching English in rural Japan, attending the Viable Paradise residential science fiction and fantasy writing workshop, and working as an indie bookseller. She now lives in the Pacific Northwest and can be found dancing spontaneously, exploring forests around the world, or trapped under a cat. For more information visit her website caseyblair.com or follow her on Twitter @CaseyLBlair.
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Tales from a Magical Teashop - Casey Blair
Saiyana's Challenge
A Story of the Tea Princess Chronicles
Casey Blair
Saiyana's Challenge
A Story of the Tea Princess Chronicles
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Author photograph by Mariah Bush, 2013.
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Author's Note
image-placeholderThis novelette is set following the main trilogy of the Tea Princess Chronicles and contains spoilers.
Saiyana’s Challenge
image-placeholderI am throwing myself into work with everything I have and keep hoping that will be enough.
Work, at least, I know how to do, and fortunately, with the summit only two months past, Miyara has gifted me with plenty of it.
I flip a twig from the magecraft supply stash on my desk, twirling it between my fingers around and around, trying to focus on figuring out whatever my eldest sister is actually angling for here in my office. This might be easier if I had more tea, but the real problem is Iryasa has grown less predictable.
Nothing’s the same as it was before Miyara decided all of us should have supportive family relationships. She went and ruined our perfectly functional if deeply unhealthy working dynamics, and now none of us know how to talk to each other.
Relearn sister management
is now an item on my mental to-do list.
Thanks, Miyara.
The twig spins out of my hand. Shit. Amateur error: I have to always be prepared to handle spell materials without looking at them lest that slow down my spellcasting when it counts.
A princess isn’t afforded the luxury of making mistakes.
Whatever, I have more twigs. I pick up another and start over.
I’ll keep spinning until everything is spent if that’s what it takes to be sure my public façade is as it should be.
I approve of our newfound sisterhood in principle, but now Iryasa wants to be involved in everything as she figures out where she should be involving herself. Sa Rangim’s doing it too, but Iryasa is nearly as bad as Miyara for excessive connivance until she’s ready for a grand gesture.
Then I realize Sa Rangim is manufacturing a reason to get Iryasa out of the room, and I drop my stick again. Spirits take it.
We’re not done,
I tell them, pushing down on my desk to lever myself out of my chair in a smooth movement that is forceful and graceful and not at all wobbly. Perfect. You’re not going to make anyone believe you’re serious about governing if you just up and leave midway through discussions.
Iryasa raises her eyebrows. I’m not going to make anyone believe I’m serious if I let them just ignore me and do what they were already planning, either.
In my defense, Iryasa’s opinions on the politics of dealing with Nakrab now that we’re demanding reparations and sending an invading princess delegation—okay, not really, but they’re taking it that way—I actually do think are worth attending to. Especially since I doubt I’ll disagree with any of her suggestions seriously, which is, practically speaking, the best case for people who outrank me inserting themselves into my business.
So I’m