The Lisca of the Ancients

<p>Myths are stories created to bring us to the goddess not the goddess to us and the truth is far more complicated. - Meru Sesar</p><p>When Meru Sesar encounters a mythical lisca on her way to marry a prince she has no idea she's the mortal manifestation of the Goddess T'Giya on a mission to protect her people. The only life she's known is one spent as the full-bodied daughter of a woman who sees nothing of value in an adult firstborn who still shivers at the very thought of mating.</p><p>Arriving in the capital Meru is thrown into the intrigues of court life and befriends the queer prince she's promised to. Together they contend with a demon who haunts Meru's days and nights for a reason she can't fathom while the queen seeks to induct Meru into the life of a lisca rider.</p><p>Like Marra the hero struggling against a power stronger than herself in Nettle and Bone yet lacking the knowledge of her divinity that Pampa Kampana in Victory City possesses Meru embarks on an odyssey of discovery as a young woman unaware of the godhood she abandoned for the uncertainties of mortal life.</p><p>Content Warning: Fatphobia diet culture misogyny ableism torture death by fire language narcissism.</p>