Nobody escapes Naigha. Even when they think they have. We spent all of the next day on the boat, going to the west. The boatmen told us all kinds of interesting things, about the boat itself, where they came from (Veray), where they were going (Tilis, and then back, they…

Five days, they said. When I woke up I heard Jerna’s father and the priestess talking softly. I stretched, and the priestess said “Ha! They’re awake.” Dayapati wasn’t really awake yet, but Jerna had been awake longer than me. There was a skirt for Dayapati too, and knapsacks for all…

At least Naigha has told her priestess that she doesn’t want them yet. There was a bright full moon and lots of bright stars, so we could see where we were going and it was quite easy to walk in the night. The dog ran in circles around us and…

They meet real people who aren’t gods! And animals they’ve never seen before. They even eat animals they’ve never seen before. In the morning we found a strange thing standing beside us. It was yellow-brown, round, about a hand’s breadth high, and it smelt like something to eat. “Perhaps it’s…

Here’s eleven-year-old Arlyn starting out on a very strange adventure. We’re all sailors here, but we don’t have any ships. Well, all the grown-ups are sailors, we kids were all born here but our parents were sailors before their ships were wrecked. If a ship gets wrecked anywhere nearby it…