"I wish we would stop calling it 'magic.' The people we rule may be prone to faith and superstition, but we Lightbearers should know better. Our science is ancient, and we lost much to time, but it is still science. Call my words blasphemous if you must, but do we blaspheme also when we say the Eternal Radiance created the vine as well as the photosynthetic process that formed the grape? Why then is it blasphemous to say our god provided us with a perfect system of natural processes by which we Lightbearers shape and maintain our world?"
—from "Bouquet of Fragments,"
out of A Garden of Fragrant Heresies
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Garden of Light: Beneath Devouring Eyes #1
FantasyAn abandoned boy, a grieving prince, and a reclusive sorcerer find themselves caught in a web of peril and mystery... Domi, a young thief abandoned on the street at birth, just wants to save his dying foster mother. But first, he must survive the m...
