The Storytellers: Galactic Neighbourhood

I have been making progress on The Storytellers (Book 2 of the Enanika Series). Here are Chapters 10-13, which explore not being alone as we think in our endless skies.

Chapter 10: Our Local Stellar Neighbourhood

The bookshop heater clicked every few minutes and the old wall clock near the philosophy shelves announced the passing of time. When the Reading Rooms breathed quietly, so did Anu. And so did Michael. 

Anu was shelving a box of donated books and a folded paper slipped from between the pages of an astronomy atlas. It fluttered to the floor like a winged prayer. She picked it up. It was a map of stars. 

Sol (Earthโ€™s sun) lay at the centre, surrounded by star systems within 13 light-years. It wasnโ€™t all the star systems within that range. Only some of them, making itโ€ฆ selective. All the more interesting.

Anu carried the map to the front counter. Michael looked up from balancing the previous month’s accounts.

“What have you found?”

She put the map down and said, โ€œOur local stellar neighbourhood.”

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The Missing Years

Here are the next few chapters of Book 2 of the Enanika Series.

Enlan was angry and hurt that Anu stayed away for six years. We find out why.

Chapter 3: New Anu

In Enanika:

Six years ago, after the three-day Sirius alignment, Anu had been invited by Nadhir to begin storyteller training.

Earth was still vivid inside her. Milkwood, the winter solstice dark, the sound of Fat Cow Creek below the falls, and Enlan’s torchlight falling across the path ahead of her as he said, โ€œGoodbye, my love.โ€ 

She felt the pull of it clearly. She felt, just as clearly, what Nadhir was offering. She held them both, and then she turned towards Enanika, and the training began.

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Enanika: Close Call

When Anu woke, she stood and moved with ease. Her body, she realised, was unnoticeable โ€” as young bodies generally are.

After several weeks of being sixty-six-year-old Anna, she had returned to thirty-three-year-old Anu during the night.

Which was just as well, because she and Enlan had decided to go back to Fat Cow Falls that day. Enlan had been feeling very Earthbound and hoped he could connect with Enanika again in the pool. The cliff would be far easier for Anu to navigate than Anna.

โ€œHave you lost something?โ€ Enlan asked when they met at the entrance to the falls.

Anu frowned slightly and tilted her head.

โ€œNo. I donโ€™t think so.โ€

He smiled, waiting. โ€œA few years, maybe.โ€

She laughed. โ€œOh. Yes. That. It happened overnight.โ€

Enanika: Anu Answering to Anna

Enanika is the visionary fiction Iโ€™m currently writing. Enanika follows Anu, a female from an advanced planet that resembles Earth. She comes here on a mission and must live within the density of our dimensions while maintaining her Nanik consciousness.

Alongside her is Enlan, also from Enanika. Unlike Anu, he adapts quickly to life on Earth. He works, relates, and lives as people do here. They were not meant to be on Earth at the same time โ€” yet life had other plans.

Enanika: When Time Does the Travelling

The book Iโ€™m currently writing isย Enanika: Visionary Fiction. As the summer crowds leave Milkwood, Anu feels the gap between herself and Enlan growing. Enlan sinks further into Earth life, and his connection to Enanika is slipping. Anu continues her astral journeys to the Hermitage of Ling-Shi-La, a place beyond time. But on this visit, she encounters an unexpected problem โ€” one that will add to the tension already unfolding between her and Enlan.ย 

Enanika: Visionary Fictionโ€”The Earth Crossing

A rainbow crossing, a chai, and a familiar face โ€” Anuโ€™s first real steps on Earth begin.

Weโ€™ve spent the beginning five chapters of Enanika travelling with Anu through the fascinating, vibrant world of Enanikaโ€”watching her prepare for her first solo mission, learning about Contact Callers, and witnessing the mystic power of the Seed-of-Life sculpture, the living geometry capable of carrying a being from one realm to another.

Now, in Chapters 6 and 7, Anu steps into Milkwoodโ€”a thriving rural town of mineral springs and rainbow crossings, a haven for artists, healers, LGBTQ+ folk, and colourful nonconformists. Here, she begins her Earth-life in earnest, navigating some very human challenges and meeting someone she never expected to find on this planet.

Waldmeerโ€™s Cast

๐ŸŒฟ Waldmeer Series โ€“ Main Character Analysis

Spanning all seven books: Waldmeer, Together, Circles of Separation, Faith, Pittown, Prana, Purnima


Faith-Amira

The spiritual core of the series. A woman who embodies the bridge between personal healing and divine service. She is a seeker and spiritual teacher, and eventually transcends her physical role, continuing to influence the narrative as a spiritual presence. Her arc moves from individual answers to transpersonal, universal devotion. She holds the energetic field of Waldmeer and all its transformations.

  • Archetype: Divine Feminine / High Priestess
  • Trajectory: Grounded healer โ†’ Surrendered mystic โ†’ Ascended guide
  • Symbolic Function: Catalyst for awakening; embodiment of unconditional love

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The Flat (Book 4 of Nanima Series): Paperboy (Chapters 1 to 2)

Here is the beginning of The Flat (Book 4 of the Nanima Series).

PAPERBOY

Chapter 1: Happy Dreams

โ€œHappy dreams,โ€ said Luna as he opened the bedroom door for Iggy to enter. 

โ€œSleep well,โ€ said Maliyan as she headed for the bathroom. 

โ€œI will,โ€ said Luna. โ€œThe night is so quiet at your house that I feel like Iโ€™m in a cocoon.โ€

He was used to the hustle and bustle, traffic and horns, yelling and late-night laughing of inner-city life.

At the end of his Christmas holiday break, Luna was ready to tell Maliyan that he never left for the northern city and was still in the southern one near her. When he initially decided to move back north, he gave notice on his flat. By the time he decided that he was no longer going, his flat had been leased to someone else, so he was homeless. Maliyan offered him her spare room, assuming he wouldnโ€™t take it. He did take it. The last time they lived together was summer, two years ago, in Nanima, in the shophouse of Luna Tiks.

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The Secret Battle

This section in Faith (Book 4 of the Waldmeer Series) came from a detailed dream.

Faith was in a type of battle. At one critical point, she decided that she must venture on alone. Knowing that her friends would be unwilling to return to safety without her, she told them they must take the children to safety and that she would return soon. She also told them she would use the magic golden armour she possessed. While wearing it, she could not be hurt. Reluctantly, her friends agreed and let her go on alone. 

When Faith arrived at the edge of the space where she would face the enemy, she felt the armour was terribly heavy and cumbersome. She didnโ€™t want to wear it, but she would be completely vulnerable without it. A group of little birds arrived. They were very similar to the sweet ones that always accompanied Mullum-Mullum. They told her that wearing the magic protective armour would do more harm than good. 

โ€œTake it off, take it off,โ€ the little birds repeated. 

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