Tor.Com Original

In a world in which horses survived to flourish in 13th-century America, the wars and rivalries of thirteenth-century Ireland have new players: the mysterious warriors from across the Western Sea, called by some the "ó Gonklins." They and their Irish hosts have much in common-enough to misunderstand one another far more than utter aliens ever could.

The eerie thing about Paige Adolpha wasn't how she turned up right when I was reading about her in the paper. It wasn't her fame as the star witness in the local werewolf trial. What brought on the gooseflesh, first time I saw her, was she's the spitting image of her murdered identical twin.

In art as in life, you've got to change in order to live. Even when your audience- and maybe your friends- thinks it would be great if you stayed the same forever. In some cases, literally forever.

Desiree feels the most at home with her clockwork creations, but Claude worries about all this science and Darwinist nonsense-after all, where do clockwork fairies fall in the Great Chain of Being?