Live in BCS #454: "Under White Air" by @jonolfert.bsky.social , featuring the same protagonist as “A Forcible Calm” in BCS #375 and BCS Audio Fiction Podcast 308.
"Half the clustered homes had collapsed with people and sheep inside. Ice and slate had crushed flesh and bone like laughing jackals. Twistfinger found herself alongside half-familiar faces, who'd been witnesses to her old feud and its conclusion."
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Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Under White Air by Jonathan Olfert
The rest of the night was a mindless panic of bloody work. Half the clustered homes had collapsed with people and sheep inside. Ice and slate had crushed flesh and bone like laughing jackals. Twistfinger found herself alongside half-familiar faces, who'd been witnesses to her old feud and its conclusion. She met the eyes of Shavag's son as they hauled the sorcerer's thin body from the wreckage of the hut and found no anger there; only desolation, brokenness, the confusion of youth.
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