The Coalition decides to trust their mysterious ally to help them in executing the largest assault they've ever attempted against the Faalcomana who oppress them; but with what result?An enemy vanquished over fifty years ago crafted the balloon bomb from streamers and paper. The weapon’s creators simply set the balloon adrift in the wind before praying fortune delivered destruction to their enemy’s homeland. Rural villagers decades later find one such balloon entangled in the swamp bordering their community. The bombs fastened to the balloon threaten peril, but no one wishes to contact the outside world for help, and thus remind the larger world of their aging community hoping to be forgotten. With new paper and paint, with new stitches and hydrogen, that rural community brings the balloon bomb back to life, never stopping their work to wonder if it might be best to let one weapon of a lost age simply fade into ruin.

Mortals die; Legends live forever...A Coalition is forming to fight back against the alien oppressors who conquered their world. As they carry out a vital mission, a mysterious, quasi-religious group comes to their aid.After killing her older sister Rowena, the antisocial demon Princess Yasha is executed and her soul is sent to the last place she wanted to be: the planet Earth. As if this wasn't bad enough, the princess is reborn as a human of all things. What is the soul of a demon doing on a planet she abhors?Includes some illustrations...