The Forest Remembers: Quiet Chronicles, Book Two: 2

What the Archive calls insurrection, the forest calls defense. The Story-Holder Eerika keeps the Kaelva Burning alive the only way the Metsik keep anything - in the root-network of a living forest, mouth to mouth, grief held long and never finished. But the forest is being cut a mile a season, and a memory has nowhere to live in a dead forest. The Burning is dying in the ground faster than any telling can save it. So Eerika stops trying to keep the fire and starts trying to read what the fire left behind - paying for the deeper reading with half her own body, until she can do the one thing burning-within-parameters cannot survive: surface the watchers, the witnesses the Archive scrubbed from every record. A people with no soldiers and no nation has one weapon against an empire that writes the history: a witness, held scattered across every keeping the empire cannot unify, waiting for the day a buyer comes asking. Book Two of The Quiet Chronicles: the war told from the forest, in the only record that cannot be cleaned.

Pagina's: 249, Paperback, Independently published