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    Gone Hunting: and other short stories of Vardin
    Gone Hunting: and other short stories of Vardin
    Gone Hunting: and other short stories of Vardin
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    Gone Hunting: and other short stories of Vardin

    By Liana Mir

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    John Henry saw a healer touch a dying child and the little girl walk away. Rhiannon de Alyón is a Vardin hunter with orders to ensure his silence. She failed to reckon the price she would have to pay to succeed.

    A hunt gone wrong, a child’s uncontrollable power manifested, and a horror about to be unleashed. A young hunter, Pesheneh, must join her father and his team to rescue the child from capture and her nation’s secrets from being revealed.

    Born in a land hidden and separated from the rest of Europe by the Barrier, Casal is caught between two sides of her heritage. Will she bind herself to the land as a Guardian—or do the dangerous work of the Hunters who cross the Barrier?

    Three stories of hunters with fantastic powers and the Barrier between two worlds.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLiana Mir
    Release dateApr 16, 2013
    ISBN9781301279944
    Gone Hunting: and other short stories of Vardin
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    Liana Mir

    Liana Mir reads, writes, and wrangles the muses from her mundane home in the Colorado Rockies and, occasionally, from the other side of the Barrier.

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      Gone Hunting - Liana Mir

      Gone Hunting

      SHORT STORIES OF VARDIN

      Liana Mir

      ©Copyright 2012 Liana Mir. All rights reserved.

      First Smashwords Ebook Edition

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      GONE HUNTING

      & OTHER SHORT STORIES

      Crossing the Barrier

      ~ o ~

      Her parents were arguing. Rohth's voice had dropped so she could only hear a low rumble when he spoke. Her mother's voice did not rise, but it held a bite to it that it did not otherwise have.

      Casal knew they were arguing about her.

      She rolled off her berth on her father's ship and slipped away from the wall; her fingers trailed lightly so she could feel the hum of power beneath it. She remembered her uncle's lessons and reached her mind into the ship's processor, briefly became it, and told it not to let her hear them. Her mind uncoiled gently from the ship and she waited until she no longer heard their murmur on the other side.

      Like a junior member of the crew, she had worked her father’s ship for three months. It was not hunting proper, and Rohth had shaken his head at the lack of action, but they were the guardians. Somebody's ship had to sail the Vardin waters and ensure that all was well and safe. Somebody had to guard the Barrier.

      A commission finally came in, a real hunt—Aysha, her father's helmsman, claimed she could taste adventure on the air, 'less salt, more money'—and then Shiloh met up with them. Casal knew the drill. Swapping parents and lives was easy when both of them were hunters. So she would miss her father's crossing; there was her mother's. But after the first comfortable reunion, tension blossomed and soured between them with nary an explanation to Casal.

      Casal decided not to wait. Her hands itched with the need to hook in to something, and both Aysha and Kidar were pushovers when it came to their equipment. She threw her mind at the padd beside her door, and the door slid aside. She grinned and stepped into the hall.

      Getting better at that, Kidar commented wryly.

      Casal nearly jumped out of her skin but gritted her teeth against yelling. 'Silent hunters live longer,' her father had told her time and time again. She crossed her arms and scowled at him.

      He chuckled soundlessly, dark hair falling into his eyes with the slight motion. It was wet. He had been on deck. That's supposed to be a thanks.

      Mm. She practiced Shiloh's unimpressed look.

      Kidar cocked his head thoughtfully. It looks better on your mother.

      Oh you! Casal scowled and slipped around him through the narrow hallway.

      Belowdecks looked like wood, like all Vardin ships, but the walls burned with a soft radiance that came from a radically different power source than pure electricity. Clomen was the substance that set Vardin apart from Europe and the rest of the world outside. It hummed and called to her, a natural fit with her own mind.

      You'll be an excellent cyberpath, one day, Kidar said behind her when

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