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    Hollow Bones
    Hollow Bones
    Hollow Bones
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    Hollow Bones

    By Niko Silvester

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    Brenna was named for a shape-shifting bird goddess, so when her beloved expresses a longing to fly, turning her herbwoman skills to creating a pair of magic wings doesn't seem like such a stretch. But she never thought that setting Lir free would break her heart.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Raven Press
    Release dateMar 4, 2011
    ISBN9781458166111
    Hollow Bones
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    Niko Silvester

    Niko loves books. She loves to read them, to write them, to have them and to make them for other people. Much of her non-writing art ends up in book form, though some of it is in allied media like letterpress printing, relief printmaking, lithography, intaglio printmaking and photography. Oh, and she also writes and draws comics.

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      Hollow Bones - Niko Silvester

      Hollow Bones

      by

      Niko Silvester

      Published by White Raven Press

      Copyright 2011 Niko Silvester

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      Lir balanced on the edge of the cliff, looking down at the beach and the ocean far below. A boat was pulled up on the strand and a minute-looking man and boy worked at tarring her hull.

      You’re in a mood today, Brenna said. She stretched, lifting herself on her toes, unafraid of the sheer rock face at her feet.

      Lir continued to gaze away. The wind had tugged his dark gold hair free from the thong that kept it out of his face; strands floated around his head, making him look as if he were under the waves and not high above them.

      Then he said, I wish I had magic, so I could turn into a bird. He spread his arms into the wind and leaned forward. Brenna smiled and spread her own arms so their fingertips brushed. If only you were a great magician, and not a fisher-village herbwoman, Lir said, You could do a magic for me.

      Brenna laughed. Maybe I could anyway.

      Ah, but would you have lingered in our poor village to be with a fisherman, could you do such magics?

      "I might have, were the fisherman as pretty

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