Shadows On the Moon
“This would be where the guards would come in, and, we hoped, where we would shortly go out. The light was stronger there. I would have to compensate for that, but, just as she had said, I had no choice.
“How are we to attract their attention?” I asked.
She settled heavily against me, one arm across my shoulders so that I could support her, the other clutching at the makeshift binding of her wound. “Leave that to me. First of all we must make the shadow-weaving.”
It was a peculiar sensation, wor...king with a shadow weaver who was not Youta. Her style felt very different. She pulled threads of darkness into being sharply, creating hard lines and folding them around us as efficiently as a good maid folds cloth. My weaving seemed soft and insubstantial by comparison. It drifted around her boundaries like cobwebs — but cobwebs that blocked out the light and filled every gap she had left, until my own vision began to dim. The hardest part was to prevent the illusion from becoming too shadowy, to preserve the impression of rough mud walls and flickering torchlight while at the same time completely obscuring our shapes.MoreLess
“How are we to attract their attention?” I asked.
She settled heavily against me, one arm across my shoulders so that I could support her, the other clutching at the makeshift binding of her wound. “Leave that to me. First of all we must make the shadow-weaving.”
It was a peculiar sensation, wor...king with a shadow weaver who was not Youta. Her style felt very different. She pulled threads of darkness into being sharply, creating hard lines and folding them around us as efficiently as a good maid folds cloth. My weaving seemed soft and insubstantial by comparison. It drifted around her boundaries like cobwebs — but cobwebs that blocked out the light and filled every gap she had left, until my own vision began to dim. The hardest part was to prevent the illusion from becoming too shadowy, to preserve the impression of rough mud walls and flickering torchlight while at the same time completely obscuring our shapes.MoreLess
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