Tag Archives: Rhetia
RUNNING AWAY: TIKA AZA | PART 7
Previous New Years Day 1008 The moon was setting when we finished crossing the ocean. I followed the woman and the girl to a cave in the cliff that bordered the shore. The woman had stayed at this cave before, I was sure of it. She pulled out some metal tools from her bag and […]
RUNNING AWAY: TIKA AZA | PART 6
Previous Solstice 1007 You could probably walk across. I kept thinking about what the man had said while I walked, now on the sand of the beach. The ice did look thick here, but what if it wasn’t in the middle? I kept walking, hoping to find some kind of shelter. Erincateri lay to the […]
RUNNING AWAY: TIKA AZA | PART 5
Previous Winter Solstice Holidays 1007-08 The sun woke me up. I remembered that I was outside. I’d found a spot between trees that was relatively sheltered. I’d laid down bare branches under and over me, so my clothes wouldn’t get wet. I grabbed a bite of bread—I couldn’t cook the grain, not with all the […]
RUNNING AWAY: TIKA AZA | PART 4
Previous Late Le Esel 1007 “I have sad news,” Mrs. Mirin said. I looked up from my spinning. I’d never enjoyed housework, but they gave me food to eat and a warm bed in the attic in exchange. Mrs. Mirin hadn’t asked me too many questions. Her oldest daughter, Eliya, had just had twins. “What […]
Making the Team | Part 4
Previous “Ladies and gentlemen, I am honored to announce the 1,128 Rhetian World Team. Erena Nato, two-time Continental Champion and nine-time National Champion; Sunlissia, 1,125 Bars Continental Champion and two-time National Champion; Elila Orro, 1,126 Bars Continental Champion; Tyanna lya Azon, 1,127 Bars Continental Silver Medalist; Tara Tlaer, three-time Vault Continental Champion; and Reana lya […]
Making the Team | Part 3
Previous Trials are just three weeks later. In Rhetia, this is a one-day competition. The winner, along with the National Champion, automatically makes the World Team, but the other four gymnasts will be chosen by the coaches. I was seventh at Nationals among the gymnasts who were at least sixteen, but if I’d made fewer […]
Making the Team | Part 2
Previous We enter the stadium through a separate entrance from the horde of spectators waiting in line. We have a small team; aside from Sunlissia and I, thirteen-year-old Greesatina Swirl is Niche’s only other elite-level gymnast. Greesatina is Coach Trili’s niece. We start on the Bars with Andon Gymnastics. There are just two of them. […]
Making the Team | Part 1
“We’ll be staying at Narana’s,” Mom says. “Ooh! I can’t wait to see their house.” Sunlissia is my parents’ adopted daughter. She is four years older than me, twenty-one, and very interested in all things art. “Ktine?” “Yeah, I heard you the first time, Mom. Are the boys coming?” I have two brothers, Lenor and Torin. […]
Running Away: Tika Aza | Part 3
Previous Le Esel 1007 Where do people go when harvests are poor? To the cities, apparently. I was not the only one who had the idea to go to Yahvsii Isvar. The easterly road seemed as crowded as it was for the Harvest Week festivities, even though they were now over. My village hadn’t gone. […]
Running Away: Tika Aza | Part 2
Previous Early Narsel 1007 Tlinie burst in from the fields. “The root vegetables are all moldy.” “How will we ever have enough food for the winter? What is the cause of this bad luck?” The older women asked. “My mother said there was a poor year when she was young,” one of my aunts offered […]
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