A City of Silhouettes

By Ricky German

“A woman was here. She lost her mind and became a goddess...”

Aedan enters an abandoned city, only to find it is populated, just not with people.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ricky German
• Release date: Oct 31, 2018
• ISBN: 9780463627457

Ricky German

Ricky German is an aspiring writer and professional desk jockey. When not doing either he is a keen practitioner of aikido, of which he is a black belt, and spends time hiking the moors and woodlands, exploring the paths less travelled. He is also torturing his neighbours with an ill-conceived attempt to learn the violin. Ever the escapist, he is currently evading real life to work on Aedan and Linet’s world in the form of several short stories.

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A City of Silhouettes

A woman was here. She lost her mind and became a goddess… The man wept as he rocked back and forth, face hidden in his emasculated hands. From the look of him, Aedan guessed he had been rambling alone in that spot for several days.

Aedan originally had no intention of entering the city of Eólas, although he had heard much about it during his journey across the Conquered Lands. By all accounts it was the centre of Milesian enlightenment, a rival to any library those of Aedan’s kind, the Tuatha de Danaan, could boast. The brightest of Milesian minds were to be found here, debating a variety of subjects, from the meaning of the celestial firmament to the subtleties of metallurgy. If one wanted to find an authority on a science in Milesian lands, Eólas was the