
The Mouth That Drinks Silence
by Caliel

In 16th-century Abyssinia, Queen Asebiyah faces a terror that devours not only lives, but memory itself. With Mehari, her captain of mixed Abyssinian and Frankish heritage, and Wubit, a mute prophetess, she journeys through haunted lands to confront an ancient evil. As names vanish and the past unravels, they must risk everything to reclaim what was lost. In a world where memory is power, can a queen save her people—or be unmade herself?