Of Shards and Shadows

Product Description
When a tree falls in the forest there is someone there to hear it... and this is its story.
Of Shards and Shadows is a twisted tale about a being —the Shadow Walker— whose only purpose is to bear witness, to remember the worlds that would otherwise have been forgotten, and to keep track of those self-aware species that have been lost along the way. It is a lonely existence, one that has no hint of a beginning, and no prospect of an end... one that is suddenly disrupted when it stumbles upon a world inhabited by a species that is literally allergic to its presence.
Unable to move forward, the Shadow Walker must find a way to overcome what amounts to an unprecedented obstacle, and in doing so it might just learn something that its almost endless knowledge had actually kept from it.
The present volume combines into a single story a fully revised version of the book originally published under the title of The Shadow Walker, and The Shard, a tale that was meant to be its sequel.
About the Author
Under duress Clea Saal has confessed to being born on this planet, though she is not sure that would have been her first choice. She was born at an early age somewhere in the Southern hemisphere, and was dragged to the other side of the Equator by her parents when she was only a few years old. She has been playing equatorial ping-pong ever since. She began writing when she was six, and, to some people's annoyance, she hasn't stopped yet. She endured twelve years of basic education --make that thirteen, she did flunk once-- and then by reason of tradition, masochism or insanity, went back for more, eventually earning for herself a degree in English Literature. The day she finally graduated most professors in her department literally cried for joy. She claims to have been surrounded by books ever since she can remember. She saw them, smelled them, chewed them, tore them to pieces, scribbled on them, heard her mother reading them to her, and, as she got a little older, read them herself. She also had quite a few books thrown at her. Under the circumstances, becoming a writer seemed to her like a logical next step.