by quill
Two excursions into firelight: one original, one borrowed, both mine. Short stories about debts that keep people warm.
Every crossing between the stars is paid for by the light of a lantern, and every lantern is paid for in memory. Aster Vane takes the post at Lantern Nine expecting a quiet year and an empty ledger. Then a convoy asks for a flame that would…
The river fort at Ash Crossing burned in the spring offensive, and two men who spent the war on opposite sides of it meet in the charred barracks by accident. One is looking for a name carved into a beam. The other has been ordered to bury …