lilette blackbriar

Lilette stood atop the old roof as she had grown accustomed to. All around she smelled the rot which clung to The Shallows, heard the gently lap of swamp water against boats whose passengers thought they went unnoticed in the dark. She saw all in the dark, heard all, with her sensitive ears...

Public Library, Elbion, Early Evening The stacks felt like another world, quiet and cool and carrying that faint, dusty scent she’d grown strangely fond of over the past week. Serelai slipped into it with a soft exhale, letting the hush of it settle over her shoulders after days of noise...