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The Fairytale Nerd is one of the blog tour stops in the Two Moons of Sera Blog Tour!

The author, Pavarti Tyler, is sharing with us today a snippet from Two Moons of Sera!

Pavarti K Tyler is an artist, wife, mother and number-cruncher who has been committed to causing trouble since her first moment on this Earth. Her eclectic career has flirted with Broadway, Teaching, Law Firms and the IRS. Author of many short stories, Pavarti spans genres from Horror and Erotica all the way to Fantasy. Currently Pavarti is hard at work establishing her Indie Publishing CompanyFighting Monkey Press .
Pavarti K Tyler's novel Two Moons of Sera is a Fantasy/Romance and will be released in a serial format beginning this fall. Her next novel Shadow on the Wall is scheduled for release in early 2012. Shadow on the Wall is Book One of The SandStorm Chronicles, the saga of Recai Osman — businessman, philosopher, Muslim and . . . superhero.

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I closed my eyes, letting the heat seep into my skin. My mind drifted to the forest where animals hunt and scavengers pick at what's left behind. Life wasn't supposed to be lived like mine, alone. There wasn't much hope things would change though. The few Sualwets I'd met were afraid of me, and —thanks to my mother's stories— I was terrified of the Erdlanders.

As a child I hadn't minded the solitude, enjoying my mother's attention and playing with the animals in and out of the water. But at 15 years old, almost 16... Something inside me longed for more. I didn't have a name for it, but I knew it was out there.

The sun floated across the cloudless sky as I dozed. Our cove was the safest place on earth, solitary and undiscovered by Sualwets and Erdlanders alike. Images of floating boats and swimming clouds filled my mind until a sound jolted me from my inner thoughts.

A hoooooffff and then a swoosh. The air moved as if something had run past me. Looking down the beach I saw a dark spot shrink and then disappear.

"Hey!" I called, jumping to my feet and running toward the movement. If it was an animal it was already gone, but so few ventured here, skittish around my mother and I. Perhaps it was used to groups, an Erdlander pet that lost its way. I raced after it, sand flying behind me as my webbed feet scooped it up.

I ran along the beach until I reached the beginning of the forest. It was thin here near the sand but thickened further back, stretching out beyond my reach, colliding with a cliff wall leading up to the mountains.

I skidded to a halt, sliding on the sand and crashing down to my hands and knees. Something was climbing the cliff!

"Hey!" I cried, more afraid for the creature's safety than I was for my own. No animal I'd ever seen could climb that wall.

I watched, transfixed, as it moved all four limbs in combination like a spider. Slowly the animal traversed the wall until it reached a flat surface out over the water. It was hard to see with the noon day sun glaring down in my eyes, but it was not covered in hair the way the wild dogs of the forest were. It had dark tan skin, like a boar, or... an Erdlander? My mother's voice swirled in my mind: They have skin as dark as the bark of a tree and hair on their heads, thick like rope. Their eyes can be black or green. Once I even saw one with eyes blue like the bay. But don't let that fool you; they don't possess the wisdom of the sea, only the cruelty of the sun.

I watched as the creature hunched on the plateau and reached into a bag I hadn't seen slung over its shoulder. Slowly, it pulled out a handful of the now-dry paper I'd laid out on the beach.

"Give those back!" I screamed without thinking. Paper was precious when you live alone and it was mine.

At the sound of my voice the creature turned and scanned the beach. Hair covered its features but I could clearly see a pair of bright blue eyes.

"Go!" It spoke Erdlander with a voice low and gruff like those of the men on the melodisks. It scratched against my ears and the tone of the word was wrong, but somehow, I understood.

"No! Give those back!" I screamed up, taking a step in the direction of the talking beast.

"Mine!" He stood up, towering over me. The plateau was easily 50 feet up so it was difficult to gauge height, but whatever he was, he was tall. I shrunk back, having never seen an Erdlander or a man. My courage evaporated.

"Mine." He repeated before shoving the pages back in the bag and scampering higher. I watched his retreating form until it was just a spot in the distance.

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Two Moons of Sera

by Pavarti Tyler

In a world where water and earth teem with life, Serafay is an anomaly. The result of genetic experiments on her mother's water-borne line Serafay will have to face the very people responsible to discover who she really is. But is she the only one?

All the Fun of YA written for Adults

Two Moons of Sera is a Fantasy/Romance and will be released in a serial format. The first volume is just shy of 20,000 words and will be priced at $0.99. Anyone who purchases it will receive all future volumes for free. However if you wait to get it until later, the price will go up with each addition.