I wrote the first (awful) versions of these stories decades ago. It took all that time to gain the skill to make them wonderful.
Now you can enter a world where sorcerers can manipulate emotions, hide in plain sight, and kill from a distance. But such powers can be used for evil which our heroes must stop.
A road crew of slaves revolts, blocking Kevarin Dahl’s carriage and tempting his father’s slaves to attack.
The riot gets out of hand and the Sorcerer King, from his palace, crushes the slaves’ internal organs. Stunned, Kevarin watches them die one by one. But he can see what the king is doing. No one else can.
The slaves, called the unfinished, are said to be less intelligent than the fully human. The schools even teach that they need guidance to survive and are grateful to be slaves. The road crew, while scared and angry, had acted in unison, showing more intelligence than they were supposed to have.
How can Kevarin find the truth about the unfinished? And what does it mean that he can see the king’s attacks, the emotions people are feeling, and even people’s spirits leaving their bodies when they die?
The dark tapestry holds portents of violence and unrest.
But only Touma the fortuneteller can see the future there, and he’s struggling to make rent, let alone enough for food. Besides, no one wants to hear the truth about the future.
Anna, a foreign sorcerer, asks him to tell her fortune. She cannot see the future and past like he does, but curious about his abilities, Anna asks him to help her find Justice, the sorcerer and rebel leader who opposes the tyrannical Emperor Ojin.
Touma foresees working with Anna will bring danger, but also food. Still, Touma wants Justice to overthrow Emperor Ojin. With riots and war blighting the future, will his collaboration with Anna help or hinder Justice?