That first night Carlone cried herself into a stupor. It was not until rationalizing to the point of delusion that she forced herself to...

Carlone was immediately rushed into a meeting she would have preferred to never have had. The two men she was to report directly to were...

The trek from the coast to the Capital was a new route that Carlone found to be very foreign to her. Buloke knew the way through though....

Sticking with her original route, Carlone stopped by the inn to inform her adoptive family about Viktor's new living arrangement at the...

When she was once again in town, Carlone sold off all but two of the smallest, yet most beautiful of the moonstones that she had found....

The distance that had taken Carlone months to travel on foot after she had run away from the farm, took a few short weeks with a...

When Carlone cashed out her pay at the clerk's office she was astonished by the vast amount that she had accumulated. The clerk, an...

Carlone had hoped to be a part of mining quartz, one of her favorite stones, however, it was limestone that was used mostly for steel and...

At the beginning of Carlone's journey, she pointedly rarely used any striking stones to ignite a fire despite them being prevalent in the...

The first night on her own Carlone was too sick to eat or do much more than to sip at a nearby creek's water. Her cough was a hard...

That night was somber. Carlone and her mother went to bed in the hayloft, but neither of them felt at ease. When Carlone realized her...

The farm was run completely free of technology. Nothing but the labor of Carlone's uncle, mother, and some seasonal workers who were...