Derin Edala

As soon as the puller yells the warning, the lurch stops. The boat still wavers a little on the rapid river water, but d...

Most of the nest had taken defensive positions underground, and the few atil that were aboveground were on lookout at th...

Getting a caravan across the Redstone River is no easy feat. Even here, at one of the best crossing places, the river is...

Careful to stay far away enough to avoid being bitten, I looked up at the fruits on Morlin’s tree. They were vaguely lum...

Bette and her children spend their first night in the Green Hills Hive inside the hive itself, in one of the spare resid...

What should the next bonus be?

“What the fuck is that?!” I exclaimed, in English, which of course nobody understood. The amalgamation screeched and cli...

The Green Hills hiveheart is made up of ten people, and as Tyk, Smon and Toi walk into the room, it’s immediately obviou...

I knew we were getting near the centre of the labyrinth when the trees started to thin out. And I mean that literally –...

The next morning, the caravan wakes to the approach of some Green Hills women, who take their carts to the trader burrow...

“I’m an engineer,” I pointed out. “You are no kel,” the Princess said. “W-well, okay, I mean, I’m not aljik. I’m definit...

Three days after Smon starts riding in the cart, Bette’s old legs begin to fail her, and she caves to her childrens’ fus...

I don’t know what I am. I know who I am, of course. The first shape I mastered was that of a perfect ceramic bowl with a...

Tyk wakes the next morning early and restless. Everyone’s still asleep. The pale stars visible through the burrow openin...

“Ask me something,” Glath demanded as I paced the edge of the cliff, looking down into the fog below. It had been a few...