The Taiven: Chapter Two

Glismera must abandon all that she loves to become who she is meant to be.

Glismera savored the smell of the musty pages of the book. It was the same smell that accompanied her in so many nights of studying the Old Language--the language of the gods, the language that wrought magic--as she attempted to be a taiven. She had many memories of studying the tome; the flickering of candlelight, the soft snips as she turned each page…