Today while i was chatting with a Wellington friend and trying to start chapter twenty-something, she informed me that the four chapters she had read were the 'best story she had read in quite a long while.' I considered this happily whilst trying to stop my cat from scaling a woolen coat into the top of my wardrobe. Ultimately i failed on the cat-front and she sat up there perusing me with her little yellow eyes. (she's up to something).
It was around then that I was gathered up to help clip the wings of the families hens... (I wonder what hens would think of us if they knew we ate their eggs? I mean it's pretty weird...). Being the best inheritor of the 'small-gene' I was commissioned to crawl into the smallest chicken-village, where i crouched for a while trying to convince the rooster that he should hand over his woman-folk. Negotiations failed. My Characters were given a chicken lunch.
Here... this is a new synopsis for all the people who want to read it. for those who don't scroll down to the unicorn, the mermaid and the army of man-eating-squirrels.
I have still kept it vague. Iv'e not included names, places yadayada, but it's longer than the last. (it has full stops at least).
synopsis in more than one sentence
The story follows a member of the misplaced...
At five moths old, she makes the snaggers list- a list of children hunted by an old enemy. She's a future threat.
Quickly she is removed. hidden from the world by a Murean with a horse called Ben (there's a name hah). For thirteen years she is raised in the harbor, no status but orphan-status, no family but her tutor and minder.
Like all Children in the empire. She is taught to fight. As orphan-status she learns to fight with whatever she can get her hands on. If she cant afford a broadsword she'll have to learn to survive one.
On her fourteenth birthday She knows that the days of dreaming are over. She will be moved into employ. Employ worthy of her status, but that isn't to be...
Her Murean show's up with snaggers on his tail and news that shocks her life into a new trajectory. Port-ella and a city protected by a wall...
She is taken to a new tutor, given a chance to prove her worth and fight for the chance to break free from orphan-status.
Not long after arrival the walls begin to crumble. An old enemy has been picking away at them, now he is starting to gain the upper hand.
Faced with a series of truths, minor and major tragedies she (our protagonist) eventually discovers her own kind of power. The really, really powerful kind.
She's thrust into training and eventually takes her bow to meet her chance at redemption, and a chance at revenge for the family she never had and the fate she never knew. She meets truth instead.
The mist clears, she cracks a riddle and she realizes that the only piece missing from the enemies puzzle was her. She rides to meet a demon and ultimately destroy a box that has sucked the 'safe' out of 'safety'.
the books ends with her success, her failure and the start of a new life as a missing-missy.
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