It is no longer a spoiler at this point to say that Zindla's world is the setting of my novel The Bailiff and the Mermaid, though I think neither this novel nor that have any spoilers for the other. This one is set about a century later than The Bailiff and the Mermaid.
If you want to read the whole novel (51,700 words) right now without waiting for the serialization, you can find it in my ebook collection, Unforgotten and Other Stories. It's available from Smashwords in epub format and Amazon in Kindle format. (Smashwords pays its authors higher royalties.)
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