To the readers: To try to avoid confusion, I'm moving the side-story "The Purpose of Wings" to exist under its own title. Find it here:

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/52345/the-purpose-of-wings

I'm going to catch up quickly, and that version is a revised edition too.

This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.

"Rising World" will remain here as a stub for now, and sometime soon I will hide the "Selen" chapters that I've posted here (since they'll be on the new page). You can still find RW on Amazon, here: https://www.royalroad.com/amazon/B09H5CQSX5 . In fact, the audiobook is now up for pre-order!