Return to Radasam

By Carol Holland March

In the second Tale of the Storyteller, Valerie meets Leo, a dreamwalker assigned to teach her about Larreta. Tall, handsome and haunted by loss, Leo fails to convince her that she is on another world until they undertake the journey to Return to Radasam and discover that the desert Portal Guardian has his own plans for the beautiful newcomer.

Return to Radasam is the second tale of the dreamwalkers of Larreta, a romantic adventure fantasy of the journey of human dreamwalkers reclaiming their heritage so they can continue on their destiny paths.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carol Holland March
• Release date: Jul 8, 2016
• ISBN: 9781310593994

Carol Holland March

Carol Holland March lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where she writes about the intersection of dreams, reality, and time. She sets her speculative fiction in locations where the veil is thinnest. She teaches classes on writing and creativity at the University of New Mexico and blogs at CarolHollandMarch.com.Her newest release is a nonfiction book, When Spirit Whispers, the first in a planned series on Healing from Trauma.

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Return to Radasam

A Storyteller Tale

Carol Holland March

Return to Radasam

A Storyteller Tale

Carol Holland March

Copyright © 2016 Carol Holland March

Published by Compass Rose Press

Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and events are either the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.

Dedication

For the Dreamwalkers of Larreta

Table of Contents

From the Storyteller of Verdallon

Return to Radasam

The Cove

A Note from the Author

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From the Storyteller of Verdallon

Do you hear the voices from Larreta whispering when the full moon’s light dances on sea waves? Or calling from beneath the surface of a mountain lake at sundown?

Do you answer?

If not, I understand, for who could believe that Larreta, land of our shattered desire, could be so near?

If the voices are too insistent to ignore and meaning has revealed itself as the glue binding all things, then listen carefully. Even rational minds can turn and face themselves.

Valerie knows. She will tell you that desire is the crucial element in evolution. Listen to your desire. Follow it. Fight with it. Challenge it. Make love with it, if you can. Preferably outdoors, under moonlight.

Return to Radasam

Leo sat on the northern jetty and watched a school of porpoises cavort. Valerie stood in knee-deep water, facing the sea, her back and shoulders straight and stiff. Martin had called it when he described Valerie as intractable. Since Leo decided to stay at the Coast House to provide her orientation to Larreta, they had done little more than spar with each other.

Her initial voluntary silence had upset Keepers and dreamwalkers alike, and when Martin called for help, Leo responded. During his first meeting with Valerie, he convinced her to speak, so everyone took a breath and assumed her orientation to the land of the dreamwalkers could proceed on schedule.

There weren’t many choices, for the portal she had traveled from Earth was one-way. After arriving on Larreta, no one could return to Earth, which is why only humans contacted by a portal Guardian could make the trip.

After Leo’s initial breakthrough, Valerie talked all right, but only to argue. He had not convinced her that she had left Earth, and she remained certain she was the victim of an elaborate hoax. After a week of talking in circles, Leo was beginning to regret his decision to take her on.

Since he lost Bobby to the first time rift to strike Larreta, Leo had studiously avoided the responsibility of training a newcomer. He had loved Bobby, convinced she was his true partner, and not until he said to Valerie on an impulse, I’ve been assigned to be your teacher did he reconsider his decision. It wasn’t even true, although Martin looked relieved when Leo told him he had