New to the Jade Dragon series? Start here! Go to beginning>> Some conversations are easy. They flow like a breeze over the dunes, each word falling into place, each reaction clearly foreseen. This was not one of those conversations. This was the wind howling through the Singing Canyons. It carried me along around corners and … Continue reading Deeper Currents

New to the Jade Dragon series? Start here! Go to beginning>> I could see the longing in my erstwhile lover's eyes. I understood his craving for freedom, his desire to break bonds, but a different hunger had driven me to board the Jade Dragon. I thought of stars and moons and the unfathomable distances between … Continue reading Fountains

New to the Jade Dragon series? Start here! Go to beginning>> Jonath had never seen a proper ocean. Neither had I, for that matter. My mother, looking out across the rusty dunes of Loess, spoke of water that stretched from horizon to horizon, and I thought, "How lonely." I had lived most of my life … Continue reading Water-Laden

New to the Jade Dragon series? Start here! Go to beginning>> Ever since the starships abandoned Loess, red-orange plumes of smoke and fire scoring the sky and mirroring the conflagration below -- ever since then, people have been talking about how to call them back. The question, of course, is not just of how and … Continue reading Whether and Why