Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
  • Mood: geeky
  • Music: Dar Williams, "We Learned the Sea."

It was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea...

I promised you a treat to celebrate the impending release of Ashes of Honor, and here it is:

A 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.
Tags: ashes of honor, short fiction, toby daye
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methylviolet10b

August 27 2012, 16:52:31 UTC 4 years ago

This was gorgeous and wonderful and such a fantastic treat. Definitely made me forget the lingering aftereffects (including headache) of my summer cold while I was reading it, which nothing else has done. Thank you thank you thank you!

One question, if I might be so impertinent: I notice Liz refers to both the Roane's eyes and Annie's eyes as green, not blue. Does that mean Selkies see colors (or Roane) differently than Toby? It would make sense (and be utterly cool) if different bloodlines saw colors/aspects of different Fae in different ways.

Thank you again for sharing such a marvellous story! And oh, the Luidaeg...she deserves all the hugs in the world. Even if she'd eat me for saying so.

seanan_mcguire

August 27 2012, 18:03:04 UTC 4 years ago

It'd be awesome, but no. I fucked up the color of Diva's eyes. The Luidaeg always does the green. Full-blood Roane tend to have green eyes, changelings tend to be blue. Toby's never met a pureblood.

methylviolet10b

August 29 2012, 16:49:24 UTC 4 years ago

My mistake - I thought I remembered Mary was a pureblood Roane with blue eyes. Oh darn, I'm going to have to go back and re-read One Salt Sea again. ;-D

*cue gleeful sprint to the bookshelves*

Thank you so much for answering the question!

seanan_mcguire

September 16 2012, 05:29:06 UTC 4 years ago

There's some variance, though, so it can go either way.