In the Hallows, words are magic, and words can kill.
Sky took a vow of silence and left the world above to keep her city's magic alive. Now, she wanders the Hallows as an acolyte of the Lost Emperor - an unseen legend from another world whose words fuel the magic above. But when her lover breaks their vow of silence and falls deathly ill, Sky must descend to the deepest depths of the Hallows to beg the Lost Emperor's help. What she finds, though, is a tragedy that spans centuries, and Sky will stop at nothing to make it right.
Featured in Lambda Award winning Transcendent 2: The Year's Best Transgender Speculative Fiction.