Seraphania

NaNoWriMo Novel 2010: The Clockwork of Faye Chapter One - Homeward Bound Everything looked exactly the same. Half a day had passed, and no matter how hard Sarn looked, the Zhongshui looked just like it had before, when she had left it. She didn't know how much time had passed. Sometimes it felt like lifetimes. Sometime she wondered if she had only been gone a day. Sarn tried not to show her disappointment, but it was difficult. More so than it should have been. Her face and body felt like an open canvas, clearly painted for anyone and everyone to see. She was biting her lip, her fingers picking at the clothes that had once been a soft gr

The sun has left her daily perch above the world; here all can see her gleaming face, the eye of heaven beginning in her slow descent. And in her place another comes a distant cousin much too eager She casts the world in shades of grey Revealing what should not be seen: An ocean still so unexplored. If could ever have the chance, I'd take my boat and set my sail across the dusty riverbed that streaks across our nighttime sky. Away from my dear eye of heaven, past the moon and rings of ice. I'd carry with me just a bucket and set my hunt upon the worlds. A truer starboard there never was. Until I found my place up there wi