Well, Regan and Zilch have known each other for years. So, if you sneaked and read this book first, you are probably wondering who exactly Zilch is. Regan is Asexual and he already has a relationship with Zilch. This is where I’m going to back up a bit and explain some things. We find out in “Always Be You” that Regan, our favorite lizard, has a relationship with Rowan. In “Runtime” we are introduced to a new character named “Rowan” who happens to be, for a lack of a better word a “Satyr” and kind of a library nerd. If you have already read “Chameleon Moon” affectionately known as “CM” on Twitter and “Runtime,” this is the next story to read. RoAnna Sylver surprised everyone and put out a special short story available for just a single day for free, “Always Be You”. But even if their sexualities are farther apart than they realized, it doesn't mean they have to be anything but close. This is a story about an asexual couple navigating consent, sorting out sometimes-confusing layers of attraction, and discovering new things about themselves and one another - like the fact that their orientations don't entirely match up. But like many things in Parole and beyond, attraction/sexuality/sensuality are more complicated than they first appear. So far, sexuality hasn't been part of it, not for either of them. Trust and intimacy like this is hard to find, and their connection quickly becomes one of the sweetest and most reassuring parts of his strange life.

But he has no doubts about how he feels about Rowan (who appears in the short story The Library Ghost in the collection Life Within Parole, and will again in Book 2: The Lifeline Signal). He doesn't know many things for certain, even his place in Parole as it hangs in a fragile balance far above an ever-burning fire. Eight years before the events of Chameleon Moon, Book 1, Regan was just beginning to feel secure in his new life.

Chameleon Moon by RoAnna Sylver