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The Opening

There is a world where a green moon rises over a crystal sand beach

Where colorful veils dance to the rhythm of threading magic

A world where words leap over the highest tower and whistle through the chambers of guarded hearts

Where stars fall from the sky and come to life behind the eyelids of a beautiful stranger

There is a world of parallel universes and a gateway to enchantment

Where a sparkling orb spins on a tilting axis -

Flawed by a breaking, it pries a web that weaves to bind its pieces together again...

There is a place called Wiera Earth, beyond the beyond,

Where magic is real and everything is touched by it,

Sta Viator,

Open the door and come in.

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An Introduction to the Main Characters

Parted Waters is the romance adventure tale about twin princesses Yalipha and Kadja; their coming of age, the mystery, magic and intrigue surrounding their lives in the Shagorrian Empire where their mother the High Queen Zhapphira rules, and the mystical Southern World beyond the sea.

A myraid of characters flow from scene to scene in the mind's eye, the most prominent of which are the princesses Yalipha and Kadja, and the High Queen Zhapphira, the ruling Seat of Power of Cle'Abar and the Shagorrian Empire.

The great High King Ethaen ruled before she and the late King Ushaq Mendraal. Ushaq was her husband, the fierce leader of Ghorl and Aschrel who had seized the throne upon Ethaen's sudden death. Unfortunately his death was to follow the great king's, and Zhaphirra ascended the Seat of Power.

S'Karen Al Erideus is a stranger from the Southern World, a mysterious warrior who is recognised by the servant girl, Lisba Moren, a worker in the palace. She believes he is her kinsman, she a member of a secret alliance against the present ruling monarchs.

Prince Nanmael is from the wealthy kingdom of Quesia, and is heir to his kingdom's throne. He is a guest at the royal banquet at Cle'Abar, the huge feast in honor of the twin princesses coming of age. He arrive s the capital city with the Quesian Royal Household; King Hyudal and Queen Juora, his parents, and his cousins; Nial the black-haired 'rascal', and the fair Aasden, Quesia's 'radiant star', who had been betrothed to his late brother Rothimus.

Nial is a plotter with a head full of schemes. He is seeking out Chief Torban and the leaders of the reclusive Isles of Ornea that lie between the Western and the Southern Worlds.

Ani Treidhark, S'Karen's oath-brother, is on a quest to find a wild-power wielder on one of these islands. Both of them, and the war-monks with them, report to the Vaene Citadal, central fortress of Ae'Anisia in the Southern World.

And the Southern World is filled with magic called 'The Ways'. There is a leading council of seven men and seven women who direct and govern 'The Ways', distinguised by the color coded cloths of each of their Houses.

Fal'Enai is an island girl who journeys south from the coast, just as S'Karen had done years ago, only she's different, bringing the Fire, her blood connection to the chaos that had been loosened on Wiera Earth a long time ago during the age the Bowl was broken.

Wiera Earth stirs. Aereka is awakening. The islanders are filled with dread.

For the most part the West lets magic sleep. For the most part, for there is Lord Baen, the High Queen's counsellor.

Quesian laws border the mystical but only just.

The tales of old swirl around them as simple legend and myth; Tur'Eraj Midis and Lyckaal, ancient figments, have their places on palace murals and weathering temples but nothing more. The Shaggorians live in despair under oppresive rule. They seek a savior, and remember the gods with sorrow.

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Four Hearts, Part 4 [Nanmael]

Sleep-walking again Wake up, Wake up! Automating a dream

Can I shake it off before its too late to start again Intoxicated by pain I’m lost in the drug It’s the gory scene That has you fixed to a spot till you are lost I do not believe its real Fascinated I...

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