Full Night on Tannis
Chapter 1
“Nobody can hear a scream in the vacuum of space, or so they say.”
As she finished the story, Venka Hyrris was elated by the look of awe and terror on the faces of every child in front of her. She cherished these sessions. The art of oral storytelling had all but been lost over the past 300 years. There was something special about allowing children to use their imagination to let stories come to life through their mind’s eye, rather than the usual method of integrated vision and sound that their nanos intuitively provided. Some of the children from the nearby campsites had joined her group, as well.