A cold invite
Added 2025-10-20 11:06:35 +0000 UTCIf you read the preview of Book 2 at the end of The Red Suit, then this invite will make sense.
Dominic,
Come trudge the maze where the ice walls sigh;
My lair is murky, blue-lit and bone cold.
I’ve shivered through two blizzards thanks to you and in those long nights the nightmares gnaw at my patience.
Come alone, leave bells and stone at home. Throw your cheer in a sack by the door. I have no need of fairy lights, only the dull glow of need.
Bring your wreathed grin and grudging moral goodwill;
I’ll bring a icicles shadow and a long ugly list.
I hate you, Santa, you know that truth well, and yet I call you, because ruin walks my halls. The vermin creep where even the forest fears to breach. The Balance tips and I am not to bear it solo.
So come, red man. Sit under the same cold roof.
We’ll talk truce, threats and old cruelties repaid.
Help me bind with comes and I know you will leave thinking you were need more than loved.
Lord of Winter
The White Sut, Book 2 of the Dark Christmas Saga, due late November 2025.
