Pair 2, Book 1: Trails Through the Tales
Time: 200 years in the future
POV Characters: Tanna and Zella
Klapit mine has been in operation for generations. Sifted and sorted too many times. Only a few days a year is it mined anymore. Barely fragments, tiny scraps former dig leaders tossed aside, are all that remain.
Dig leaders were once the decision makers in the community. Zella longs for those days when her choices were valued, rather than forgotten. She has slipped to the edge of her villa, with her daughter Tanna. She hopes Tanna will bring the dig leaders back into their coveted community position.
Instead, she and Tanna must both fight an evil so great, it only exists in campfire tales. One they both thought was long forgotten and would never return to disturb the peace of their villas.
Will Zella manage to save herself, and the rest of the community leaders? Will Tanna come through her trials unscathed? Or will the community become damaged as in the tales of their ancestors?
Rating: R.
Profanity: None.
Romance: Light, Alluded to.
Sex: Off the page. Acknowledged. Violent acts acknowledged as well.
Violence: Earthquakes. Male violence against women and society. Very much a slow moving war.
Length: 80,000 words