geekyA brand-new story about the Luidaeg, "In Sea-Salt Tears," has been posted on the equally brand-new Toby Daye short fiction page. It is available in ePub, MOBI, and PDF formats, and is free for download. (So far, this is the only free Toby-universe short story. We'll be adding listings for the published-in-books shorts in a little while, but it's not hyper-high priority.)
This story is best read after One Salt Sea, and it further details the relationship between the Luidaeg and Elizabeth Ryan, the Selkie clan leader we met at the very end of the book. Please download rather than trying to read locally; my server will thank you.
Cover graphics are by Tara O'Shea. All short story electronic conversion thus far has been done by
scifantasy. As both of them are awesome, we applaud them now.Go forth, read, and please feel free to use this as a discussion post, which means there may be spoilers in the comments. Tread carefully.
Enjoy.
August 23 2012, 20:41:15 UTC 4 years ago
I want to ask - Liz is given the choice, when she's told the full story. And she can choose to take the skin - or her mother will be burying her. I wonder - are there occasionally selkie children who choose not to take it? Surely there must be some. What gets told to those teenagers on the beach in those cases? What would have been told to them if Liz's mother came back, still with her skin, to choose someone else to pass it to?
I'm trying to imagine giving up fae immortality to go inland and die. Hard to imagine what would drive them to that.
August 23 2012, 22:13:32 UTC 4 years ago
As for why they give it up...they give it up because they don't want to outlive their children.