Shattered Pillars
“The half-healed gouges on her back stung as she filled her lungs. She could draw a fuller breath, it seemed, than she had been able to in months, as if the baby had finally decided to let her get some air inside her.
Besha Ghul huddled in the shadow of the cliff behind her, a conjured darkness shielding the ghul despite Edene’s continuing assurances that in her presence, the sunlight could do the ghulim no harm. Along with Besha stood the three ghul midwives—or perhaps doctors; Edene had not troubled herself to learn their sexes, if they had sexes—who now accompanied Edene everywhere.
At Edene’s right hand stood the djinn, wreathed in blue flames and the captured light of the suns. Overhead, the pallid sky was bright enough to blind an unprotected eye, but Edene could make out its graduated tints of dilute, dusty mauve.
“Do you like the fire, my lady?” the djinn asked.
Edene rested a hand on the sun-warmed curve of her belly, feeling her own flesh deform with each of the infant’s kick...s or punches.MoreLess
Besha Ghul huddled in the shadow of the cliff behind her, a conjured darkness shielding the ghul despite Edene’s continuing assurances that in her presence, the sunlight could do the ghulim no harm. Along with Besha stood the three ghul midwives—or perhaps doctors; Edene had not troubled herself to learn their sexes, if they had sexes—who now accompanied Edene everywhere.
At Edene’s right hand stood the djinn, wreathed in blue flames and the captured light of the suns. Overhead, the pallid sky was bright enough to blind an unprotected eye, but Edene could make out its graduated tints of dilute, dusty mauve.
“Do you like the fire, my lady?” the djinn asked.
Edene rested a hand on the sun-warmed curve of her belly, feeling her own flesh deform with each of the infant’s kick...s or punches.MoreLess
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