Book One:
SPIRIT GATE
"Inside us are fifteen Spirit Gates.
They are meant to be open.
If even one is not, a blockage occurs;
a sickness of spirit that, left untreated,
can and will rot the soul from within."
—Utmost Source,
The Five Sacred Books of Miina
Chapter One
Owl
Sixteen years—a lifetime—later, Bartta, now a small, dark, hunched
figure not unlike a lorg, found herself on the same path. The sky
was cloudless, of a blue so achingly rich it bore the appearance of
fresh lacquer. The sun was in its waning hours, magnified by the atmosphere,
so that its curious purple spot seemed like the pupil of an eye.
Miina's Eye, the Ramahan believed, that saw and recorded everything.
Borne upon the air was the scent of the kuello-firs, and when Bartta's
sandals crunched the brown needles she felt again that tiny shiver of
recognition of things apart. In an instant the afternoon she had killed
the lorg came rushing back to her. She paused, looking for the ... read full excerpt from The Ring of Five Dragons ebook
