Penny Blake

Necromancers Penny Blake

A terrible accident involving a minor miscalculation has flooded almost the entire planet with lemonade. A few sparse scraps of humanity cling to flotillas of cobbled junk in attempts to sustain some semblance of civilised existence. War, famine and caffeine withdrawal have turned the erstwhile peaceful world into a post-apocalyptic nightmare. Meanwhile, on the remote and inexplicably unaffected island of Eilean Claigeann, an ancient cult are still obliviously serving the obsolete 'supreme ruler of the universe', Wiz, and trying to fathom the secret of immortality. Sort of. Actually daily temple life revolves more around cake sales, bridge nights and village fetes... until two novices discover the secret of immortality themselves and unleash a couple of very unlikely 'gods' upon the previously peaceful community. This short story takes place 500 years or so after the events in book 1: The Curious Adventures Of Smith And Skarry