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Tond continues in Book One, Chapter 5: nightmares, discussions, and lessons in Tondish linguistics.

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 The "Tond" saga continues. Rolan has been stung by a grosk (unnamed at first) and now the whole adventure has been set in motion. Tond, Book One: The Sons of Tlaen Ras-Erkéltis Chapter 5 A Riddle Solved   Zn lúmu dáestu zn, íilan ter arn ro estráhas ke hánd ni wártas tóa. “Both light and darkness often lurk where they are not expected.” Fyorian proverb     Council Town in South Rohandal, third month, Fyorian year 614   Rolan lay in a fevered nightmare, suspended in a void with endless writhing seas of serpents below him and an unnamable nothingness yawning above him. From time to time some of the serpents broke off from the rest and assailed him, their teeth biting into his flesh like so many knives and needles, and he tried to bat then away with his arms and legs, but there was pain and stiffness in his limbs and he could barely move. A light appeared, shaped like a four-pointed star, shimmering neither in the void nor in the sea of serpents. It was a light wh...
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Earliest Childhood: Chapter One of "Ussers and the Echo of Nothing"

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Memories from earliest childhood (partly mine, partly fictional): this interview from several years later is the beginning of an experimental novel. Ussers and the Echo of Nothing Chapter One Ussers out of the Blue So I guess, before we continue, I have to tell you how I got involved in all this gibjabj. What? Gibjabj? That’s my special word for garbage. Or it could just mean “stuff”, which is really anything. It’s one of my “longspeak” words, like “stoodle-poopid” meaning “stupid” and “prob-kabob-kabayobob-kabayo-bah-bubbita-blubby”, meaning “probably”. Why ask why? My name is Tony Bradner. You know that already ‘cause you’re doing research for your human interest story about Tondalus. Well, Tony’s not my real name, but I’ll wait until later to tell you why I chose it. I live in the tree-y suburbs north of Seattle, Washington. You know that already too, but you don’t know I call it See-acka-taw-t’lucky, in Longspeak. I’m just about to graduate from Alder Terrace High School (cla...
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