AVARA
DISTANCE
Distance can be owned.
Even the space between home and market can belong to somebody. The Dot thinks that sounds measurable.
Middle-grade fantasy · ages 9+
One small traveler. One impossible world at a time. Each book starts with a strange rule, an ordinary problem, and a question nobody thought to ask.
“I am a dot. I don’t know why.”
The journey so far
Every book is its own place with its own problem. The larger mystery travels quietly underneath.
AVARA
Distance can be owned.
Even the space between home and market can belong to somebody. The Dot thinks that sounds measurable.
SULL
A home remembers everyone welcomed into it.
On a warm underwater world, growing up means settling down for good—and every home has a door.
ASHET
A deliberate lie can change what it describes.
Words can rewrite reality. Usually. The interesting part starts when one important lie does nothing.
ORRUN
A name is what you become.
At fourteen, everyone chooses a name—and their body becomes it. The Dot goes looking for the flaw.
VELL
One valley lives at two different speeds.
One side runs five times faster than the other. Everyone understands the arithmetic. That is not the problem.
THE REACH
A map shows the routes available to its reader.
Hand your map to somebody else and it redraws itself. Then one courier finds a road that cannot exist.
ARRIT
Memories can be moved. Not copied.
A memory can survive by leaving the person who lived it. The Dot is certain this is a problem it can fix.
SETH
Shadows have lives of their own.
Everybody can read what a shadow is saying. Everybody is also very politely pretending they cannot.
THE LANDINGS
A promise becomes something you carry.
Keep it and the weight goes away. Break it and the evidence stays. Sometimes the right choice still leaves a mark.
Meet the traveler
The Dot can float. It can measure distance very precisely. It can cross from one world to another. It does not know why.
It has no map, no home address, and no special talent for leaving well enough alone. When a world says, “That’s just how things work,” the Dot tends to ask one more question.
Dot’s field test
Press the button. The Dot will select a completely normal rule from a completely normal place.
The larger journey
Each arc asks a bigger question without turning the individual worlds into homework.
Nine places, nine rules, and the first real shape of the mystery connecting them.
Knowing where you came from and knowing where you belong are not necessarily the same question.
Being able to cross worlds eventually means somebody is going to ask the Dot to carry something between them.
For readers who like
There are more worlds.
Follow the journey at www.seerworlds.com.