Stone
by Alter S. Reiss
Rael’s father, Drase of the line of Peor, is the best stonecutter Taraf the City has ever seen. Stonecutting isn’t usually women’s work, but Rael—a head taller than her brothers, and as broad across in her shoulders as her father—finds it fits her well. Until the day her brother Tei is killed by a desert tribesman.