Empires rise. Gods whisper. Lovers collide. Realms and Roads is a living story universe — free to read, impossible to forget.
A distant scream pierced the air. He caught sight of Luo warriors doing battle at the base of the hill. Their ostrich-feathered headdresses gleamed in the sun. They swung their short stabbing swords at hordes of tall, war-painted fighters. The Lang’o troops. Heads clean shaven. Teeth sharpened. Skins coated in pale grey-white ash. They looked […]
The following day, Luyanda and Jabu had two free hours in the afternoon and were both scheduled for another shift in the museum warehouse. They found Amina, Yisa and Nomsa there already. They joined them, and worked away in silence, wanting to get through their turn as quickly as possible. There was a knock on […]
Luyanda spend most of his free periods and lunch breaks hanging out with Nomsa and Jabu on the library lawn. Soon, he had gotten to know most of his classmates. He immediately hit it off with Imtiaz, a student who had been in primary school with Jabu. One of their classmates was a foreign student […]
Maddie’s lecture started from the moment they got into the hover and continued until they pulled into the garage. Luyanda’s father came to the rescue and brokered a peace deal. They agreed to treat the whole thing as an experiment, where Luyanda would quit his job if his studies suffered. Not that Luyanda was particularly […]
“You again,” the girl snapped, as she spotted Luyanda, Jabu and Amina approaching. “Nice to meet you too,” Luyanda quipped. “I see you know each other already?” Amina asked. “Not really,” Jabu said. “I’m Jabu.” “Nomsa,” the girl replied. “Luyanda.” “Great. Now that’s out the way,” Amina remarked, “let’s get started. We must be quick. […]
In a few minutes, Luyanda spotted the off-ramp to the University of Azania City. He came off the highway and onto the main road. It led straight to the campus gates. The hover’s windscreen chimed and lit up. “News and Navigation, Lu?” “Yes, please, Msiza.” “You are now driving past the main entrance of the […]
It was a full three hours before his parents arrived. Luyanda busied himself tidying up the house and preparing dinner with Marjorie the domestibot’s help. Just as he was about to give his parents a call, he heard the familiar purring of an engine in the driveway, and the garage door rolling open. A few […]
Luyanda flicked his eyes open. He was lying flat on his back. To right and left and towering all around him were walls of bright, light brown sand. He sat up, and realised he was back in the desert, but was in the middle of a crater. Keita was a few feet away, stirring as […]
His body plummeted downwards for a few breathless moments, then slammed into solid ground. He stirred but couldn’t move. He arms and legs felt like they weighed a ton, and were cold as ice. He wiggled his fingers and toes, and ever slowly, the blood flowed through them again and pin pricks of pain told […]
Luyanda rushed forward and fell to his knees beside him. “Jabu? Can you hear me?” Jabu moaned. Luyanda gently touched his shoulder. Jabu’s eyes flicked open. “Msiza, flashlight.” Jabu squinted as the beam of light from Luyanda’s wrist washed over him. His face was covered in bruises, and an angry weal cut across his lip. […]