Davina Lee

Lina and Arabel are just a couple of gals on the lower rungs of society's ladder. Born into a culture with rigid caste system, all they want to do is find the next good party. Never in their wildest dreams would they suspect the survival of their island colony might rest on their shoulders. But things come to a head when the ever seething rebellion pushes the two women into the spotlight and into danger's path.<br><br>With their own colony no longer safe, these best friends find themselves on the run, fleeing with only the clothes on their backs. Their journey into the unknown leads them to discover strange new lands, never before visited, some with even stranger inhabitants than their own. Will these newfound acquaintances prove to be friend or foe, or simply another temptation from the path?<br><br>Follow Lina and Arabel on a hero's adventure of epic proportions at the far distant edge of humanity's future. Sailing over the clouds, risking everything to do what is right for their people and their colony.

Dance Until the World Ends

And after grabbing the bucket just in time to purge herself of the remaining lychee, Lina settled down to sleep. It was a fitful sleep, full of lightning strikes, and a slow descent through the clouds, into the depths of the abyss. 7: Into the Abyss


It came to pass that the ancestral memories of all queens who had come before, would instill in each colony’s queen a deep yearning to seek out the solace of others like her, and unite the people once again under the sheltering branches of the Great Tree. To this end, the queen’s crafts-workers learned to build ships that would sail upon the clouds. And the bravest among the queen’s people would mount these vessels and set out from the safety of the colony’s island home in hopes of finding her sisters.


—Selected passages fromThe Book of the Originby Bella Aurelius Nobilis, Modern Language Translation


“My child,” came a voice that was both near and distant, intimate and foreign—in a moment that Lina was both there, then here.


Chapter 28