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    Necklace

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    Five stories about Yuuji, son of the great female warrior Ashurran and the wise sea dragon Laibhao of the Cobalt-Blue Scales. Yuuji is wise, but naïve; reserved but capable of great love. He has an appearance very unique even for this world with demons, elves and dragons: blue skin with scales, golden eyes with vertical pupils and ears with long pointed tips. Despite his inhuman looks, he is beautiful, kind and sympathetic to humans.

    A companion book to Ashurran: Gates to Glory. It’s not necessary to read Gates to Glory first, there are no spoilers here, only the general information about Ashurran who was an epic heroine of the whole world of Ekleipsis series. There are characters mentioned who appear in other books, such as Ekleipsis and Royal Blood.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTiamat
    Release dateJan 31, 2019
    ISBN9780463199930
    Necklace
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    Tiamat

    Tiamat is a well-known Russian author of original m/m romance and Tolkien slash fanfiction. She is a native Russian speaker, lives in Moscow, Russia, loves to travel and to write, read and watch everything about hot gay men (and occasional women) in a fantasy setting.

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      Necklace - Tiamat

      NECKLACE

      A Companion Book to ASHURRAN: Gates to Glory

      Five stories about Yuuji, son of the great female warrior Ashurran and the wise sea dragon Laibhao of the Cobalt-Blue Scales. Yuuji is wise, but naïve; reserved but capable of great love. He has an appearance very unique even for this world with demons, elves and dragons: blue skin with scales, golden eyes with vertical pupils and ears with long pointed tips. Despite his inhuman looks, he is beautiful, kind and sympathetic to humans.

      A companion book to Ashurran: Gates to Glory. It’s not necessary to read Gates to Glory first, there are no spoilers here, only the general information about Ashurran who was an epic heroine of the whole world of Ekleipsis series. There are characters mentioned who appear in other books, such as Ekleipsis and Royal Blood.

      Necklace, by Tiamat

      ISBN: 9780463199930

      All Rights Reserved

      Copyright © 2019 Tiamat

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or in any means — by electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise — without prior written permission.

      This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

      Cover design © 2019 Tiamat

      Cover art source: shutterstock.com

      This is a companion book fro the novel ‘Ashurran: Gates to Glory’ (available on Smashword), but it could be read as a stand-alone stories collection.

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      * * *

      Contents:

      1. Emerald

      2. Amethyst

      3. Sapphire

      4. Amber

      5. Aquamarine

      * * *

      1. Emerald

      Hanyo hated non-humans with the zeal of a sixteen-year-old.

      His father and elder brother were killed in battle with the damned Elves, and Hanyo longed to go to war himself. But his mother never let him, saying, Not yet. So he had to live in the safety of the capital and consort with cowards and good-for-nothings. There were no other words for those noblemen’s sons who dressed in expensive silk even on a hunting trip and loathed killing a wounded boar with their own hands, lest they smear their fine clothes. And Hanyo himself, the heir of an old and noble house, had neither expensive silk nor even a gold ring which he could have thrown with panache on the table during a party or a game of cards. It was the fault of the pointy-eared bastards too, because his family estate had been laid waste during the war, and the pension granted by the High King was by no means generous. All the more reason for Hanyo to go to war, because it was a sure way to win glory and riches. But his mother had been unwavering. Before she let him go, the war would have probably ended!

      Hanyo would have very much preferred Ashurran, the great female warrior, as his mother. She would have let him go to war. No, she would have taken him with her, and turned him into a great warrior, same as herself. And Hanyo would have been a much better son for her than the actual one, that yellow-eyed bastard who had been spending his time with a book or a lute, disgracing his glorious parentage. Hanyo loathed him at first sight, right after he saw the bastard’s pointy ears and golden eyes with vertical slits for pupils. And his posture! As if everyone and everything around him didn’t merit his attention. Damned bastard, probably a kin to the forest demons!

      There was no one to explain to Hanyo that Yuuji was no kin to the Elves, and didn’t even resemble one, his ears being longer and slenderer than those of the cursed enemies of the humankind, and his blue skin with tiny scales here and there was in no way like the Elves’.

      Although the demon-spawn preferred solitude, sometimes he did show his face in the High King’s court. Now and then he even accepted young aristocrats’ invitations to parties and trips. They couldn’t, of course, avoid paying attention to the son of mighty Ashurran, the General of Yunan. So they invited Yuuji over and used the chance to bully him, ridicule and dare him to do something difficult or dangerous.

      Yet Yuuji seemed immune to ridicule: he never looked hurt or offended. Hanyo attributed it to arrogance. It never crossed his mind that Yuuji, having grown up away from the capital and its people, was far too naïve and inexperienced to understand when he was being made fun of.

      Making him do something stupid or dangerous was rather hard, and even when they succeeded, it usually was no fun at all. Suppose, some young aristocrat would dare Yuuji to mount an especially fiery horse, expecting him to be thrown off it – in vain! The yellow-eyed bastard clung to the saddle as if glued to it. He also swam like a fish, even through the coldest and fastest streams. He couldn’t fence properly and handled a noble blade in the most despicable manner, like a stick; still, he was incredibly fast and could avoid any attack without breaking a sweat, so there was no fun dueling with him either.

      So, basically all what’s left was to call him names behind his back. Like ‘pointy-eared freak’ or ‘ugly bastard’.

      However, ‘ugly’ Yuuji was not, it was Hanyo’s enmity speaking. An unbiased person would find Ashurran’s son strikingly beautiful. Inhumanly beautiful – that was the right word. So no one was really surprised when Narita, the heir of the late king of Falaris, started to discuss Yuuji’s figure as if Yuuji were a slave or a horse – without him present, of course. At length the prince talked about Yuuji’s slender waist,

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