Starfell chapter sampler

A Question of Time

as we need to find him first.’ ‘Oh, why’s that tricky?’ asked Willow.

Moreg turned to look at her, a faint smile about her lips. ‘He’s an oublier, you see, one of the best in Starfell, no doubt, coming from a long line of them. The problem is that finding an oublier is almost impossible unless you know where to look.’ Willow looked blank. ‘An ouble—A what?’ ‘An oublier. It’s in the Old Shel, you see.’ Which Willow had always taken to mean when words had more bits in it. Modern-day Shel was the language most people spoke in Starfell, apart from High Dwarf that is, but the latter was mostly because of all the colourful ways one got to swear. ‘It’s pronounced oo- blee-hair , or – as they are more commonly known today – forgotten tellers, people who see the past.’ ‘Like the opposite of a seer?’ Moreg drummed her chin with her fingers. ‘Sort of—’ ‘Like my mother,’ interrupted Willow, whose mother was a well-known seer, and took her travelling fair all across the kingdom of Shelagh telling fortunes. Moreg seemed to have something stuck in her

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