She Slays Dragons

Dragonslayer

Nizzibet slays dragons. She’d rather not. She’d rather bake bread and garden and have tea with friends. But dragons keep tearing up the landscape and making life miserable for everybody who isn’t a dragon. So she picks up her sword and goes to work. That’s the kind of lady she is.

Eighteen and Counting

MousiversaryNizzibet and I have been together now for 18 years. During that time we’ve each been, at least, half a dozen different people. We’ve grown. We’ve changed. We’ve given each other the silent treatment. We’ve said too much. We’ve danced. We’ve made art. We’ve made family and expanded it. We’ve been each other’s cheerleaders. We have made a home in each other where the doors are always open and a warm fire is always burning.

Happy Anniversary to my favorite Mouse.

Morgo, Step One

Morgo Sketch

McRory might be the narrator and protagonist but it’s Morgo here whose name is the serial’s title.

In my early research about the novel, before I actually read it, it sounded like Morgo was a Mowgli/Tarzan sort: a boy raised by beasts who becomes king of said beasts. Morgo’s actual origins are both more complicated and vaguer than that. Morgo was a young English boy prior to his life in the caves, so he knew “civilization” at one time. Once he came to caves he was adopted by the protomen and batmen in one of the lower caverns. Somehow he rose to become their king and leader. How that happened is left vague.