The Southern Star
She is forgetting how to be human. He is only learning.
An epic fantasy · February 12, 2027
Miranda is the only redhead in a village of fair-haired fishermen, and the sea god they pray to has never once answered her.
Then a royal frigate docks at the village pier. By the time it sails, Miranda is aboard, torn from the only home she has known and carried across the Eastern Kingdom into a world of sorcerers and ancient witches.
Somewhere along the way, something in her begins to wake. It is cold, and certain, and it carries itself like a queen. The girl she was is slipping away. At first that terrifies her. Then it doesn't.
Gakur was once a gnome, a curse-worker who sold small cruelties to anyone who paid. Now he wears a stolen human body and serves the sorcerer Wind, biding his time until he can slip his chains. His orders: find the red-haired girl. He finds her, and falls under the one spell he cannot break, and does not want to.