Steampunk Fiction. Web Comics. Home. Hilari Bell, author. Writer of ethically ambiguous SF and fantasy for kids and teens... Fisk and Michael encounter the most dangerous enemy they’ve ever faced...and he IS taking prisoners. He can use them. “Who are you? What are you doing here? A sudden suspicion of the answer stopped my tongue, but they knew what I’d been about to say.
“Yah,” said one-eye. “Surely you have kin in this town who’d take you in.” There was a long silence, then the girl shrugged. The blond boy growled under his breath, and a murmured echo came from the shadows—a feral sound that lifted the hair on the back of my neck. “That’s how come we’s here,” one-eye said. He said it with a casual acceptance that chilled my blood, even as it broke my heart. “Who is this Rose?” All of them stopped, staring as if I’d asked why the night was dark. “The Rose,” said the girl. --Thief's War (February '14)
FanFiction in SM Stirling's universes. Lawrence Watt-Evans: The Misenchanted Page.