The Sunlit Man | Chapter One Nomad woke up among the condemned. He blinked, his right cheek in the dirt. Then he focused on the incongruous sight of a plant growing in fast-motion before his eyes. Was he dreaming? The fragile sprout quivered and twisted, heaving up from the earth. It seemed to stretch with…
The Sunlit Man | Chapter Two Nomad slammed to the ground side-first, dragged with frightening speed after the hovercycle. Your healing is engaged, Aux said. And your body has adjusted to the local environment’s lower air pressure. But, Nomad, you’ve got so little Investiture left. Try not to get too beat up by this next part, all…
The Sunlit Man | Chapter Three The entire city vibrated, and the buildings swayed sickeningly. Cracks appeared in the metal street beneath Nomad, but as he began to panic, his captors calmly stepped across the cracks and pulled him into a building. The city shook and split. It … it wasn’t breaking. It was disassembling. It shattered…
The Sunlit Man | Chapter Four When Nomad woke this time, he found himself manacled to a wall. No … it was the outside of a boxy ship, one of those forming the arena. He’d been chained right up against the side of the thing, pulled spread-eagle on a flat piece of metal ten feet by…
The Sunlit Man | Chapter Five Nomad cried out in frustration as Glowing Eyes turned toward the sound, then began shouting orders as he strode—tall and unflinching—back toward the podium. Weapon fire—blasts with a distinctly red-white heat—rained from the sky. Glowing Eyes shouted something else, and ember people—a good two hundred of them—came running out…
The Sunlit Man | Chapter Six Nomad tapped on the driver’s shoulder and thumbed backward. She quickly glanced over her shoulder, said something he was quite certain was a curse, then bent lower over the controls. He reached for her rifle, but she put a protective hand on it and glared at him. Great. He…
The Sunlit Man | Chapter Seven The rain here wasn’t nearly as bad as a storm back home. Just a quick wash of cold water. The sprinkle lasted less than a minute, though they soon passed through another one. He guessed that those omnipresent clouds made for near-constant scattered showers in this dark zone. “This…
The Sunlit Man | Chapter Eight Old women? That wasn’t as exciting as he’d hoped. But, hey, maybe one was secretly a dragon. Nomad could tell from the behavior of the others that these women were in charge, though they weren’t wearing anything regal—just common black dresses, gloves like everyone else, and hats, even here…
The Sunlit Man | Chapter Nine Walking into a storm wasn’t something usually done on Nomad’s homeworld. Yet he’d traveled the cosmere enough by now to know that even a violent storm on other planets was nothing compared to those of Roshar. Indeed, the wind buffeted him here, but it did not lift him from…
The Sunlit Man | Chapter Ten “What?” Wit said, dusting off his blue uniform—which was untouched by the rain. “A master can’t check in on his favorite student now and then?” He glowed softly, visible even in the darkness, and his substance rippled at the rain’s interference. Like he was a reflection on a puddle.…
