Life, it sometimes may seem, is a thing of opposites. For day there is - and night. For love there is - and hate. And water there is...
And fire.
Sonea, called Finder, though not yet Lightning, has her new pick, that trills like a bird when it comes near good ore. And she labours at the mine each day. But labour is a thing of toil, and toil is sweat, and sweat - well, it is no garden of flowers :-). And draku can be as fastidious as any Saris of a time...

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING - the first novel published about Istaria - continues on Saturday December 15, estimated start time 17:00 Eastern. Chapter 6 - FALLING WATER is short, so TaleSpinner will reach also for Chapter 7 - AN UNWELCOME VISITOR as well. And thus the telling may run a little longer than its usual hour. But that is oft the way of Tales - and, I hope, none the ill for it. So come one, come all! Come those of Chaos, and those from the lands of Order and Blight, if only for an eve. Come to the player channel 'The Hall of Mirrors' on Chaos. Dd ye ever hear tell of the Thunder and Lightning? The Fool and the Fair?