Vita Nuova Part Three

 

 Part Two—KazaKu is able to pull off her desperate plan to remain with Karak/Beatrus with remarkably little difficulty, only to discover that winner the battle sometimes means losing the war or, worse, that the war was doomed to be lost before it was even begun.

KazaKu is a boarder at the local sanctum for the arcanely gifted, possessing the battle gift which endows her with more than human strength and dexterity and a powerful resistance to fatigue and injury. Unfortunately, even if the side effect of this type of gift was an extremely violent temper, her options would be limited. Those with the battle gift make fine warriors but are good for little else and, since in her society women can not be warriors, she is left in a decidedly uncomfortable position. But she has not chaffed overmuch regarding lack of social prospects, present and future, unable to imagine an alternative, until a chain of events takes her life in a radically different direction.

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The Whore of Her Babylon--chapter 13

Chapter Thirteen--Dave takes Rachel to his house where she learns much more about his private life, including how and why he became a libertus, leaving her overwhelmed with bitter-sweet uncertainty.

The Whore of Her-Babylon---In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities like plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.

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Vita Nuova Part Two

 Part Two—Kaza Ku is grows closer to Beatrus/Karak and more at ease with his friends and their pastimes. Yes Felix is annoying and Heinrich's intentions highly suspect but they are a small price to pay to be near the object of her adoration. But then she receives terrible news that will destroy all she treasures unless she acts fast and then, with time running out, she realizes the even more horrifying solution.

KazaKu is a boarder at the local sanctum for the arcanely gifted, possessing the battle gift which endows her with more than human strength and dexterity and a powerful resistance to fatigue and injury. Unfortunately, even if the side effect of this type of gift was an extremely violent temper, her options would be limited. Those with the battle gift make fine warriors but are good for little else and, since in her society women can not be warriors, she is left in a decidedly uncomfortable position. But she has not chaffed overmuch regarding lack of social prospects, present and future, unable to imagine an alternative, until a chain of events takes her life in a radically different direction.

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The Whore of Her Babylon--chapter 12

 

Chapter Twelve--Rachel makes another visit to the library where her reading selection prompts an extremely disturbing dream but she is allowed no time to process this as Alice drags her off to Her-Babylon's iconic location, the Hanging Gardens, where she encounters yet more yet more profound emotional revelations.

The Whore of Her-Babylon---In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities like plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.

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Vita Nuova--Part One

 

Part one—KazaKu is persuaded by Shalana, the closest thing she has to a friend, to climb onto the roof of the monastery next door in order to spy on Prince Beatrus, who has been sent there for relief from the burden of ruling as a possible respite from the nameless sorrow that had plagued him for years. From her hiding place, she discovers his secret talent and combination of ability and sadness inexplicably drives her to take ever greater risks to learn more about him.

KazaKu is a boarder at the local sanctum for the arcanely gifted, possessing the battle gift which endows her with more than human strength and dexterity and a powerful resistance to fatigue and injury. Unfortunately, even if the side effect of this type of gift was an extremely violent temper, her options would be limited. Those with the battle gift make fine warriors but are good for little else and, since in her society women can not be warriors, she is left in a decidedly uncomfortable position. But she has not chaffed overmuch regarding lack of social prospects, present and future, unable to imagine an alternative, until a chain of events takes her life in a radically different direction.

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The Whore of Her Babylon--chapter 11

 

Chapter Eleven--Rachel grows closer to both Alice and Dave, taking the former on a special outing for the most high-end food in existence, and getting a the beginnings of education from the latter instead of what the other women think they should be doing...everything is going wonderfully except for that pesky professional expectation.

The Whore of Her-Babylon---In the world of the distant future, after clawing itself back from the brink of oblivion due to a now mostly forgotten calamity, humanity has coalesced to live almost entirely within the bounds of a single mega-city. Although technology allows almost unlimited production of food and energy, at least on a basic level, artificial scarcity ensures material possessions remain important status symbols, highlighting the massive gap between the haves and the have nots. There is an extreme nostalgia for the past, an obsession with creating a facsimile of many of the aspects of life from before the collapse but this only enhances the social stratification because of commodities like plants being incredibly rare, affordable by only the most wealthy. Woman all live in and work out of brothels and both they and their male counterparts are expected to make work and productivity their highest goal while emotions are considered dangerously deviant, to be suppressed with powerful pills. In this controlling and cut-throat environment, one woman dares to defy the system.

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Temptation--Part Two

 

As someone who had read the right books, Wilma should know that demons need to be called and welcomed before they can claim you but when, bored and with out direction after graduating college, she gets a chance to reconnect with the object of her infatuation from high school, she forgets everything, including this rule, and finds herself on the run from the horror she summoned in her vanity. 

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