Ebook. A short story set in the world of Earthsea, although you don’t need to know the world to follow the story. I have to be careful reading LeGuin’s work now, as she has passed on and there is a limit to how much work of hers there is left for me to read. Here, LeGuin returns to writing about women in Earthsea.

Some of you may know that this was a struggle for her: to move away from male characters and figure out women’s roles in her own work. In this story, there is a stone that has a spirit in it. A woman visits it every day to feed it. She speaks of vengeance.

Why?
You read on to find out.