[Free Content] A Bard on the Run: Friends Like Gianni

This free short story is an early one, and is set in the world of Menelon. Friends Like Gianni is about a bard who gets into some trouble while on the run from her past. In this short story she hits rock-bottom and has to find a way to pick herself up again.

In a nowhere dive in a nowhere town at the far end of a chain of islands that the rest of the world hasn’t discovered yet, a young bard named Zephyr is struggling. She's been framed for a crime she didn’t commit. And is afraid she’s been abandoned by the man she loves. She’s on the run, as much from the pain of her memories as from the bounty hunters competing to claim the price on her head. The problem with running away, however, is that it’s also running TO some place else. One night, Zephyr stops running only to find herself dueling with her lute and her wits against the enigmatic Gianni Prutech.

What does Gianni really want from Zephyr? Will she be a free woman when the sun rises, or will her past catch up with her at last?

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