Stone Speaks to Stone

Stone Speaks to Stone is a standalone novella related to the Greenwing & Dart series (listed as #1.5 on the author's official site). It follows Jack Greenwing, the father of Jemis Greenwing, during his time at Loe. It takes place about 10 years before the events of the rest of the Greenwing and Dart series. It was published in 2018.

Published Blurb
Jack Greenwing is good at scouting. He's renowned for being able to hold on in battle long past bravery. He was once given a trophy for his courage by the hand of the Emperor himself.

At Loe, where the Stone Speakers can call down avalanches and landslides, he was sent out on a scouting mission as a siege closed in on his company. He returns to see it being lifted because of treachery, and is there to witness the five remaining members of the command staff be led off in chains into the mountains, far from the border of the Empire.

He once held a border until the rest of his army joined him: nothing will stop him from attempting a rescue, though snow is falling in the mountains and he must fight those who can walk through stone.