These are what force my hand when my cage is on display and I’m instructed to sing.
I have fantasies of mocking those men who think me some stupid animal, but sometimes, when the night is deep and I’m curtained away from any glimmer of civilization, I wonder if I’m becoming what I fear most, if the lack of true companionship is molding me into the creature they profess me to be. Published in the United States of America byĪs much as I crave my freedom, I’ve lived so much of my life in a cage that I’m not sure what I’d do with it once it was mine. No portion of this book may be transmitted or reproduced in any form, or by any means, without permission in writing from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts used for the purposes of review. Any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, locales, or events is entirely coincidental. All names, characters, locations, and incidents are products of the author's imagination, or have been used fictitiously. But when the Regent shows an unexpected interest in Tylen’s future, they begin to wonder if their worlds need to remain so separate. The time they have together is stolen and precious, the minutes ticking away until the eclipse is past and they have to go back to the way their lives were before. Only music gives Dek a voice, until Tylen breaks the rules and sneaks in to see and speak to him alone. The Regent is just the latest in a long line of owners, and while he’s kind, he’s still blind to Dek’s sentient nature. Because there, in a gilded cage, playing music unlike anything Tylen’s ever heard, is the most beautiful alien he could imagine.įor more than twenty years, Dek has lived in captivity, performing at the whim of those who see him as an animal. His good intentions vanish, however, the moment he’s presented to the Regent.
It’s the party of the millennium, and if he has to restrain his normal exuberant instincts to fit in, that’s what he’ll do to be a part of it. Nothing has ever excited Tylen Merodine more than being invited by the Regent himself to celebrate the first solar eclipse in his planet’s recorded history.
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