The second visitor is an assassin, trained in the ways of the Kanlin warriors, who nearly takes Tai's life hours later. You gave him four or five of those glories to exalt him above his fellows, propel him toward rank - and earn him the jealousy, possibly mortal, of those who rode the smaller horses of the steppes." The gift makes Tai a marked man, and thrusts him into the perilous intricacies of life from his silent observation of death. So precious that "you gave a man one … to reward him greatly. of courage and piety, and honour done the dead of Kuala Nor," has given him 250 Sardian horses, the most precious steeds known to man. The White Jade Empress, in "royal recognition. The first is a Taguran soldier, who brings him tidings from the court of the Kitan's traditional enemies. Tai spends his mourning period burying the dead, putting their ghosts to rest, one grave, one body at a time, Kitan indistinguishable in death from Taguran, "tangled together, strewn or piled, skulls and white bones."Īs his mourning period comes to a close, Tai is brought back to the world by two visitors in the same day. The ground there is littered with the remains of 40,000 men, equally split between Kitan and their perennial foes to the west, the Taguran Empire. Following his father's death, Tai spends the two years of his official mourning on the isolated shores of Kuala Nor, the site of one of his father's greatest triumphs 20 years before. Shen Tai is the second son of General Shen Gao, one of the most distinguished military leaders of the Kitan Empire.
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Together, this ragtag, mismatched trio will embark on a worldwide investigation that will expose a conspiracy one hundred years in the making. He now lives in an RV behind Emerson’s house. Vernon has been Emerson’s loyal and enthusiastic partner in crime since childhood. Riley Moon has a Harvard business degree and can shoot the eyes out of a grasshopper at fifty feet, but she can’t figure out how to escape the vortex of Emerson Knight’s odd life. Curious Minds (Knight and Moon 1) blurb: They couldnt be less compatible, but they make a great team Emerson Knight is introverted, eccentric, and has little. Since a crack team isn’t available, he enlists Riley Moon and his cousin Vernon. When clues lead to a dark and sinister secret that is being guarded by the National Park Service, Emerson will need to assemble a crack team for help. And finding a missing island is better than Christmas morning in the Knight household. Poof! 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Your characters should sound like individual people. No matter if you’re writing in first person or third, it’s vital for our characters to have distinctive voices. You can learn more about Katrina in her bio box at the end of this post. Katrina is the author of four novels for adults-Traveling Light, Two Truths and a Lie, The Kindness of Strangers, and The Blessings of the Animals- and one novel for tweens, Reasons to Be Happy. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and is an experienced teacher of creative writing as well as a manuscript consultant. Please welcome Katrina Kittle to Writer Unboxed as a regular contributor. Firstly, I will trace the history of violence in Colombia through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and show that a literary genre of violence was absent in the nation until 1946, when the period known as "la Violencia" commenced. 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