Morninglight Chronicles · Second Age · Chapter One The sky was not blue. It wasn't gray either. It hovered somewhere between silence and suggestion, like a word waiting to be invented. Elira opened her eyes not because she remembered how, but because the wind insisted. It wasn't wind in the old sense. It moved like a thought looking for its first sentence. She lay on something too soft to be earth, too real to be dream. A surface that adjusted beneath her weight like it wanted to know her name. She had no name. At least, not one she could say aloud. Only a ringing in her bones, a syllable she didn't recognize, looping in the cavity of her ribs: {kahrna} She sat up. There was no horizon. Just a light that shimmered in vertical folds, as if the world had been skinned a

