title: The Lore of Eralynd: The Third Age Account of the First Redeemer
author: Alyson Holman
description: I have been writing various adventurous stories since I was twelve. I won a short-story contest for the literary magazine at Baker University with a piece called: The Servant's Song, which was published in that magazine. The First Redeemer, however, is the first novel that I have had published.
zlib_text: Prologue
  
  She should have insisted that her personal cabin contain a window. It would
  have been simple enough to add to the design of the ship, and her children
  would have enthusiastically seized any opportunity to provide their rih-hara-
  tan with the most extravagant comfort, let alone a small portal to the stars.
  
  Instead, her last living glimpse of the constellations of the Monorhan system,
  intricate designs she had been taught to name almost as soon as she could
  speak, was stolen as she had been all but carried by her shi-harart, Naviim,
  and three terrified harans through the dank, lifeless corridors of a forsaken
  alien space city into the docking bay where her ship was berthed. The sadness
  of this realization didn't hit with full force until she found herself locked
  securely in her cabin aboard the vessel she had christened Betasis twelve...
  could it have been only twelve?... short rotations ago, when this catastrophic
  journey had begun.
  
  "Oweninum's Belt," she whispered to the da