To Crush the Moon
Chapter One
chapter zero
in which a city's gates are breached
The skirmish at Timoch's gate is little recorded by conventional history-a minor engagement of Silver and Yellow and Stealth Gray, lost in the shuffle of much larger events. But a great deal of subsequent chaos turns on it, as an avalanche is said to turn on a single pebble. Regard it, then, as a moment of critical change which makes all the rest of it possible. It begins like this:
In the two hundred and first decade of the death of the Queendom of Sol, an ancient man finds himself trudging across the plains of a strange world. His escort-half a dozen armed men nearly as ancient as he-have already led him from the base of a bluff called Aden very nearly to the walls of a city called Timoch. And although the man has been to this world before-has lived here, wept here, bled and sweated here-he's never seen either of these places. Indeed, he's not even sure they existed when last his bootheels trod this gray, powdery soil, for he has spent a great many years . . . away. Asleep. Ensorcelled.
The world's name is Lune, although it was once called Luna. The man's name is Bruno de Towaji; he was once called "King." See him now in y ... read full excerpt from: To Crush the Moon ebook
