Strange Attractors - Kim Falconer [0]
Table of Contents
Cover Page
Dedication
Maps
Epigraph
CHAPTER 1 TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH & CORSANON FIELDS, GAELA
CHAPTER 2 CORSANON FIELDS, GAELA
CHAPTER 3 TENSAR & CORSANON, GAELA
CHAPTER 4 TEMPLE LOS LOMA & BORDERLANDS, EARTH & CORSANON, GAELA
CHAPTER 5 DUMARKIAN WOODS, CORSANON & RIVERLANDS, GAELA
CHAPTER 6 CORSANON & RIVERLANDS, GAELA
CHAPTER 7 CORSANON & RIVERLANDS, GAELA
CHAPTER 8 BORDERLANDS, EARTH & CORSANON, GAELA
CHAPTER 9 RIVERLANDS & CORSANON, GAELA & BORDERLANDS & TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH
CHAPTER 10 TEMPLE LOS LOMA & BORDERLANDS, EARTH & CORSANON, GAELA
CHAPTER 11 CORSANON, GAELA & BORDERLANDS, EARTH
CHAPTER 12 TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH & CORSANON, GAELA
CHAPTER 13 TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH & CORSANON & DUMARKIAN WOODS, GAELA
CHAPTER 14 TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH & CORSANON & DUMARKIAN WOODS, GAELA
CHAPTER 15 TEMPLE LOS LOMA & BORDERLANDS, EARTH &; PRIETA FOOTHILLS & DUMARKIAN WOODS, GAELA
CHAPTER 16 PRIETA FOOTHILLS & DUMARKIAN WOODS, GAELA & BORDERLANDS, EARTH
CHAPTER 17 DUMARKIAN WOODS, CORSANON & CUSCA PLAINS, GAELA
CHAPTER 18 DUMARKIAN WOODS, PRIETA FOOTHILLS, CUSCA Plains & Corsanon, Gaela & TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH
CHAPTER 19 PRIETA FOOTHILLS, CUSCA PLAINS & CORSANON, GAELA & TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH
CHAPTER 20 CORSANON, CUSCA PLAINS, PRIETA FOOTHILLS & GOREGAN RIVER, GAELA & TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH
CHAPTER 21 CUSCA PLAINS, PRIETA FOOTHILLS & GOREGAN RIVER, GAELA & TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH
CHAPTER 22 TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH & PRIETA FOOTHILLS & DUMARKIAN WOODS, GAELA
CHAPTER 23 PRIETA FOOTHILLS & DUMARKIAN WOODS, GAELA
CHAPTER 24 DUMARKIAN WOODS, GAELA
CHAPTER 25 DUMARKIAN WOODS, GAELA & TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH
CHAPTER 26 BORDERLANDS & TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH & TEMPLE LOS LOMA & DUMARKIAN WOODS, GAELA
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Maps
A strange attractor is a pattern that appears chaotic, random in both trajectory and purpose, until seen from the right perspective.
CHAPTER 1
TEMPLE LOS LOMA, EARTH & CORSANON FIELDS, GAELA
‘Demons,’ Rosette whispered. She gripped the rock face, her fingers cramped into spider shapes. The sun was scorching hot. Her clothes stuck to her back, sweat dripping down her spine. She didn’t know how much longer she could hang on. Below was a red desert plain marked only by the wrought-iron gates of Temple Los Loma and the boulders that concealed the portal. Her familiar paced in front of them, pausing every few strides to look up.
You’re not moving, Maudi. What’s wrong?
Her boot slipped and she hung midair. I’m fine, Drayco. She caught her breath and found better footing. Can you see them yet?
I can, Maudi, and if you want to stay concealed, I suggest you hurry things along.
Thanks, Dray. I’m coming.
Drayco had made it look easy; he’d scampered down the cliff then waited for them to catch up. Teg wasn’t so sure. He had suggested they shape-shift, her flying to the portal while he followed Drayco’s descent in wolf form, but Rosette had cautioned against it. The shock wave from the transformation could be felt for a fair distance, like sounding an alarm. What they wanted was stealth. How hard could the climb be?
Harder than I thought. Rosette swallowed the dust in her throat and looked up. ‘Teg, we have to jump!’
‘From here?’ He was squeezed into a narrow crevice, loose dirt breaking free as he tried for a better grip.
‘It’s not that far.’
‘Easy for you to say. You’re ten feet closer.’
‘There’s no more time.’ She took a breath and let go, pushing back from the rock wall as she launched. The ground came up to greet her sooner than she expected, jolting her legs and spine. She tucked into a backward roll as Teg landed in front of her.
Finally, Maudi. Drayco rubbed his cheek on a nearby rock. They come.
‘We have to hide,’ she said.
‘Where?’ Teg looked at the open expanse. ‘They’ll know if we go through the portal now.’
‘Not the portal. Come closer, both of you,’ she said as she dusted herself off. ‘And