1 : Chapter One
Calaie (pronounced Kal-ee, and she had to do this every single time someone tried to read her name) leaned back against her bedroom window as she sat in the nook inside her bedroom. It often baffled people why her name was spelled in such a way, only to be pronounced in two syllables. "Your name looks longer than it sounds," was a common observation. Yes, well, she wasn't sure what was going on in her parents' heads the day they decided to name her so. Calaie could have told people to say her name a different way, but it just wasn't how it was pronounced. It was a slow Saturday afternoon. It was the kind of Saturday afternoon when everyone in the house just stayed indoors and do nothing despite the lightly warm weather outside. It was definitely a calm, boring weekend. Calaie strained to listen to the sounds inside the house and outside. She could see in her mind her father in the den, sitting on the couch, going through the sports section of the newspaper. Whe...