The Prophet of Panamindorah, Book One Fauns and Filinians (24 page)

If you are enjoying
Prophet
, check out
Abbie’s other projects. The short story collection,
Crossroads,
includes
stories about Gabalon, Archemais, Hualien, Sevn, Lexis, and Syrill.
These stories do include spoilers for the
Prophet
series, so you might want to
finish those books first.

Another series,
The Guild of the Cowry Catchers,
is a darker, grittier Panamindorah story, set in
the distant island kingdoms of Wefrivain.
Cowry Catchers
is also illustrated
in rich watercolor and ink. The fullcast audio production is free
at
www.cowrycatchers.com
, where you
can also view many of the illustrations. You can purchase the
eBooks in all the usual places.

About the
Author

Abigail Hilton is a nurse anesthetist who
lives in Florida with three cats and a variety of carnivorous
plants. She has spent time in veterinary school and done graduate
work in literature. She currently keeps people alive and
comfortable during vivisection (AKA surgery). Really, it doesn’t
get more magical than that. You can find her short fiction in
GUD
,
The Drabblecast
,
The Dunesteef
,
and other venues both audio and text. You can connect with Abbie
personally on
Facebook
or
Twitter
or email her at [email protected].

Glossary

blue month:
one cycle of blue moon, usually 30 to 90
days.

Canisaria:
native country of wolves and
wolflings.

cowry catchers:
manatee shelts.

Danda-lay:
cliff faun capitol.

Diven-rah:
a ruin, old shelt capitol of Filinia.

fauns:
shelts with hooves, e.g. wood faun (dear shelt), swamp faun
(goat shelt), cliff faun (sheep shelt), shavier (pegasus
shelt).

fealiday:
cat shelt, also plural.

Filinia:
native country of cats.

Iron Mountain:
centaur capitol.

Kazar swamp:
home of the swamp fauns and lizard
riders.

Laven-lay:
wood faun capitol.

lizard riders:
alligator shelts.

nauns:
shelts with neither hooves nor paws, e.g. manatee shelts and
seal shelts.

panauns:
shelts with paws, e.g. cat shelts, wolf shelts,
fox shelts.

red month:
one cycle of red moon, about 60 days.

Sardor-de-lor:
a ruin, old wolfling capitol of Canisaria before
it fell to the cats.

Selbis:
a ruin, the old wizard capitol.

shelt:
a two-legged creature having a humanoid body from the waist
up and resembling some kind of animal from the waist down. Shelts
have pointed, tufted ears.

watch:
a period of time approximately four hours long. Shelts count
four watches for the day and two watches for the night.

wolfling:
a wolf shelt.

yellow month:
one cycle of yellow moon, about 15
days.