The Cause

By Ophelia Keys

Perhaps he was slashing his way through the grey uniforms. Well, that was his job after all. Only it wasn’t his job. She faltered in her smooth, cat stride. His job had been to protect her father’s interests. Did honour call for her to return and fight beside him? She was confused and she had always been taught that confusion was death. A short story about honour and love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ophelia Keys
• Release date: May 27, 2013

Ophelia Keys

I’m based in Victoria, Australia and I write paranormal / gothic fiction. Indigo is my first novel available online. It was written as a serial fiction, week by week. You can read about the experience of writing this way on my blog. I don’t think it’s for the faint hearted! Indigo is set in Carlton, an old suburb of Melbourne where I used to live. The creepy house she lives in is a real house that I lived in for a while. The rest is entirely made up. I’ve had a long love affair with learning and writing. I completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Editing and Communications after my MA in Classical Studies (Violence and Imperium in Livy’s First Pentad). I’ve also received a mentorship for Young and Emerging Authors from the Australian Society of Authors (Australia Council funded) and was lucky enough to work with the wonderful story-teller, Sophie Masson. I currently work as a freelance editor, researcher and sometime uni tutor. Thank you for sharing my imaginary worlds...

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THE CAUSE

Ophelia Keys

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The Cause

Sythe sat silently in the ambassadorial debrief room, legs tucked beneath the chair with the neatness of a cat’s tucked tail.

‘At the central system there is a