Dandelyon's Worlds

So, I've put two bits out--a whole short story, and the beginning of another. I very much appreciate the comments people have given me. Thank you for responding, it feels good to know I have readers.

I would like to give you the best reading experience possible. Does it make any difference to you when I put up installments of the story?



Again, thanks for reading, and thanks for commenting.

Fireborn begins here.

ORCHID

Orchid’s chin started to itch, so she squirmed to reach one toe-claw upward to scratch. She’d been waiting for far too long. “Be fair,” she muttered. “Cirrus and Frog can’t fly as fast as you can, and though we flew into a headwind to get here, the wind might have shifted.” She looked at the angle of the sun. It had only been about an hour. A long, boring hour, with nothing to do but watch the woman’s cut form a messy scab. And watch the baby, just a few feet away, swimming in its enclosure.

Realistically, her friends were probably just arriving at her house. If she was lucky, they’d be talking with her mother right now. She tried to remember her mother’s plans for the day. Would she be home? Of course, a healer’s plans often got disrupted—

“Nnnn”

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  The story continues here.