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(In the world of 'I Am Sorrow') A prison of ice. A dead Queen. A Goddess's curse. An innocent mother. A truth that has never been told. I used to be many things. I used to dance many dances. A daughter's dance, a sister's dance...a lover's dance. Now, all I dance is death. Eliseya Barranni was a healer and a killer, a red witch. The last of her kind. She was merciful but just. Kind but ruthless. She was also my mother. Despite all her strengths, she died a criminal. On the run, and all alone. Because she was accused of something she didn't do. A situation all too familiar to me. Its time for me to do what I couldn't do thirty years ago; clear my mother's name and mine. One of Urayan's thirteen immortal Queens has just been murdered. A Queen who'd just claimed to have a way of breaking a curse that has lasted for a thousand years. A Queen who is also in a faded photo with my mother. Now the duragh' haal, a series of thirteen death dances designed to choose the next Queen, will soon begin and this might be be the only chance I have to find out who killed the queen and what my mother has to do with all of this. A series of seamlessly unrelated attacks throw the thirteen cities into a state of dissension. Someone is playing a game of puppet with some of the most powerful beings in the world and I've been forcefully hired to find out who. All I've got to go on is three drops of blood, a supposedly empty satchel, a watch that can't tell time and a hell lot of anger. It will have to be enough. Open Novella Contest.
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