The Voyage of Gethsarade: Book Two of the Elderwood Chronicles

"Many things in this world plainly are when they should not be, despite the greatest of odds. Think nothing impossible! Some impossible things persist even against the inconsolate hurls of time ever vast, like the Sun's endless burning away at the gates of a long abandoned home. Sometimes they haunt your door like the ghost of a friend. Sometimes they sit in your arms and laugh while they tease your whiskers, and they kiss your worries goodnight like a half-told story, telling you worry no ...