Love, Resurrected
By Cat Rambo
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In this short story, which originally appeared in the online magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies, general Aife Croffadottir is acknowledged one of the finest military minds of her time -- which is why the sorcerer Balthus commands her to his service even after her death. How will she come to terms with her new existence?
Find out why Endeavour, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award nominated Cat Rambo’s been called one of the strongest storytellers in a generation of speculative fiction writers. Her emotionally rich stories play out against worlds that are evocative, imaginative, and beautifully but economically realized.
In the Tales of Tabat series, Rambo explores a fantasy world where intelligent magical creatures co-exist uneasily with human beings in a social order on the verge of upheaval.
Cat Rambo
Cat Rambo writes and teaches in the Pacific Northwest. Among the places her work has appeared are Asimov's, Weird Tales, and Tor.com.
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Love, Resurrected - Cat Rambo
Love, Resurrected
By Cat Rambo
Copyright 2015 Cat Rambo
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This story originally appeared in Beneath Ceaseless Skies in 2012.
Love, Resurrected
General Aife Crofadottir was acknowledged the greatest military mind of her generation – perhaps even her century. No wonder then that the sorcerer Balthus recruited her early in her career, setting her to rally armies of Beasts and magically-equipped soldiers, planning campaign after campaign, until finally he stood the ruler of a vast expanse of the continent's northeastern corner. Once fertile lands, once countries, now only uncontested, devastated territories.
Three years after her death, she still labored in his service.
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Aife stood at the window of Balthus' tower, looking out over the desolate countryside. Age and blight had stooped the apple trees dominating the view, and sticky webs clustered in the vees of the knobby branches. The dry grass tried to hold onto the dust, but here, as everywhere, drought and ash and the silty remnant of magic choked away all life. The chalky-white stones surrounding the dry well