Little Snippets Part 1 · 8:46pm Jun 19th, 2022
I promised I'd hand out snippets every few days until release, so here it is. Time for a snippet from the book on Nightingale discovering 'amazing' day dweller technology. Putting it in Spoilers just in case folks want to remain completely unspoiled.
Also! The audio is recorded! Although it's still going through a little editing, so the audible book is either gonna be ready just in time or hopefully only come out a little bit after the e book. Here's a link to the E-book, though I am still waiting on cover art to share with y'all.
Diane and Sylvia tittered at the sight, though they too rose from their spot beside a tree to make their way over. They were very dainty about it, sorta flowing like wind or water, and they had pulled these weird fragile things out to cool themselves with.
Their laughter made me blush black, but it was the little whatsits that made me pause and hover. They were simple devices—far simpler than the weird metal beasts Sylvia and the bandit had had—but that made them all the more eye-catching. Several sticks connected at the base with the prettiest paper webbed between them like the flesh webbed between my wing bones. They even flexed like my wings; the sisters curved them to hide their smirks, the paper flaunting pretty swirls of all sorts of grays over it.
“What are those?” Gliding down, I set down in front of the two and did my best to ignore Mom’s snort of laughter.
“You… haven’t seen a fan before?” Diane’s eyes glittered impishly while Sylvia’s were as dead as fish eyes under her arched brow.
“A fan?” I pouted and fluttered my wings. “Really? That’s all it’s called?”
“Yes?” Sylvia arched her brow. “It’s short. It’s functional. What else would you call it?”
“A wingding.” Stretching one wing before me for emphasis, I wrapped it around me much like Diane and Sylvia curved their ‘fans’ to hide their faces. Big as it was, though, I looked more like some sort of caped crusader—a knight in shadowed armor.
“Like a moth to moonfire.” Mom shook her head as she chuckled.
