Maybelle Smith is a small town weaver’s daughter on the cusp of graduation. she’s got her mind on her fiancé, her apprenticeship as a baker, and a move to the big city. Her future is finally living up to her dreams…
Foxhawks are born to partner with a specific human and Baron has waited the three years since his hatching with growing anticipation of that event. He can see down the future probability trees and things look brighter than he dared hoped for…
Golden foxhawks are born for war and there’s an egg in the nests at Pine Reach that could spell the end of the long peace between the three kingdoms. They will have three years to prepare, but after that not even the foxhawks can see what happens next…
And then things go horribly, horribly wrong.
Genre: Second-world/High Fantasy
Total Current Wordcount: 50k+
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This is still very much an ugly rough draft, but a few folks have asked to read it in it’s horribly unkempt form.
Table of Contents
Book I : That Which Comes Before
Quiet Morning Baking
It’s Almost Hatching Day!
Aaron’s Letters
Graduation Day
And Thus the Future Dies
Other Fish in the Sea
Hatching Day at Pine Reach
The Great Spouse Hunt
Hatching Caverns
The Fledglings Arrive
Of Hopes and Futures
Things Get Better
Farris vs. Baron
Future Trees and Possibilities
And lo, They Fight!
The First Night
Try Try Again
No Future Trees
The Clichéd Hatching is Upon Us!
Baron Watching Hatching
May Watches the Hatching
Rescue!
Choices
Book II : What Comes After
The Aftermath
Dinner at the Hatching
On The Road Again
Being Chosen vs. Choosing
Welcome to Oak Grove
Welcome to the Academy
Shunning
Facing the Music
This Was not The Plan
What Not to Wear
Letters Home
And Now We Fly
Delayed Confrontations
School Daze
Make New Friends
The New Normal
Book III : The Coming Storm
Graduation Day
Death From Above!
After The Storm
Cold, Hungry, Tired
After The Rain
Not According To Plan
The Enemy Unknown
Softpaw and Claire
The Second Storm
Small Magic
Cavalry Has Arrived
Book IV: The Void of the Sea
Two Beaches and the Blue Ships
Going Home Again
Now What
It’s A Trap
Now What (Take 2)
Of Mice and Men
On The Road to Nowhere
Incoming Adventurers
Oaths of No Consequence
Mum’s The Word
From Here to There
Escape!
Not the Plan
War is Upon Us
It’s Just Water
The Enemy is Us
We Have Ways of Making You Talk
The Storm
Cavalry Redux
Book V : Seek the Oracle:
More Like Me
Chasing Folly
Kicking You When You’re Down
Flight and Fight
Into the Wastes
There is A Hole In The Bottom of the Sea
Alice Through The Looking Lake
I Hunger
I Make No Promises
From the Mouth of Snakes
We Have a Plan
Change is Good
And Back to the Beach
Book VI: Rule Number One, There Are No Rules
A Quiet Night
Ultimatums and Breaking the Rules
An End to the War
The Aftermath of the War
Book VII : At War With God
We Need to Talk
Meet the Enemy and He Is Us
But Why?
Channel Are As Channels Do
Afterword : Happily Ever After
The First Hatching