Second Contact

Digitesque Vol. 3

Ada and Isavel are not enemies. What they are to one another has yet to be decided, but the world quickly is forcing the decision. Peace between mortal humans and the other beings of Earth is crumbling, a millennium of stasis is shredding at the seams, ancient gods are losing their grip, and something from beyond the darkest skies is coming back.

There are cities to save, curses to lift, exiles to end. Ada must say goodbye to the few friends she has, while her time to right an ancient wrong runs short. Isavel must save two cities from each other, as one rushes into a war it may pay far too dearly to win. But who will listen to her, when she no longer speaks in chorus with the crowd?

The gaps that separate can no longer hold. Seas are no obstacle, long-lost worlds are reunited, and the dreams of gods and ancestors are made flesh. What distance, then, can remain between these two?

Originally published August 2017