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    A Knot Better Tied
    A Knot Better Tied
    A Knot Better Tied
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    A Knot Better Tied

    By R. J. Davnall

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    Rel's actions on arrival in Vessit landed him in prison. Dora must deal with the fallout from his arrest while suffering the uncontrollable, chaotic effects of her Second Gift.

    When one of Vessit's Gifted becomes stranded in the Second Realm, Dora takes the opportunity to leave her problems behind and help with the rescue. But nothing is ever so simple in the Second Realm.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherR. J. Davnall
    Release dateJul 20, 2012
    ISBN9781476298382
    A Knot Better Tied
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    R. J. Davnall

    R. J. Davnall is a brightly-plumed, semi-nocturnal cryptid native to northwestern England. She has been making up stories, including her own, all her life, and thus probably shouldn't be trusted to write her own bio. When disguised as a human, she is a Lecturer in Philosophy and Game Design Studies, and a member of the Olaf Stapledon Centre for Speculative Futures, at the University of Liverpool

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      A Knot Better Tied - R. J. Davnall

      A Knot Better Tied

      Episode 1 of Staring Into the Abyss

      A Story of the Second Realm

      By R.J. Davnall

      Published by R. J. Davnall at Smashwords

      Copyright 2012 R. J. Davnall

      Smashwords Edition License Notes:

      This ebook may be copied, distributed, reposted, reprinted and shared, provided it appears in its entirety without alteration, and the reader is not charged to access it.

      The Second Realm

      Van Raighan's Last Stand:

      Episode 1: I Can See Clearly Now

      Episode 2: You Can't Go Home Again

      Episode 3: A Hole In Her Mind

      Episode 4: Touching the Void

      Falling With Style:

      Episode 1: Wild Hawk Down

      Episode 2: She Stoops to Conquer

      Episode 3: Falling Off the Face of the Earth

      http://itsthefuturestupid.blogspot.com/

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      A Knot Better Tied

      About the Author

      Staring Into the Abyss

      1. A Knot Better Tied

      Dora found it easier to be around Rel while he slept. He lay on the hard pallet in the cell Keshnu had carved out of the bedrock, neither arguing nor recriminating. The red haze she saw around him all the time now had dimmed until she could almost pretend it was just a shadow on his blanket. Asleep, he couldn't embarrass her any further, or undercut her attempts to defend him.

      Or insult her anymore. Stop pretending you're still my Four Knot, he'd shouted at her last time she'd taken up his case with Keshnu. The Wilder had rolled his eyes in response, a trick Taslin had apparently shared with him after learning it - somehow - from Dora. She didn't think she rolled her eyes all that often, but if a Wilder could work out the pattern behind the gesture she had to be overdoing it.

      She put her hand up to rub her eyes, trying not to watch the patterns of spots on the inside of her eyelids. When she opened them again, the room fuzzed and split apart into dancing blotches of colour. The image refocused before it reassembled, leaving her staring blankly at a net of jagged-edged sparks, thrown over a jumble of crates.

      Blinking furiously, she focussed on the web of light; not a separate object, but the distribution of the light from the candles across the cell and Rel's sleeping form. Thinking of Rel was a mistake. While the image settled back into something more normal for the First Realm, Rel's

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