Embar

ZINNI: I think, absolutely, just like we did in Embar (ph) province in Iraq where we found that there were reconcilable elements in those that we were fighting.

CNN Transcript Oct 10, 2009 2009

Jake shrieked in terror, and Embar immediately rose out of the floorboards, looking chagrined.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

“You want to watch this sort of thing, Lauren,” Embar said, waving an arm to encompass all the changes she had made.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

Embar was dead, frozen, the frost whiting out his open eyes.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

“This is supposed to mean something,” she said to Embar.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

Later, she promised Embar, backing out of the room.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

“There were things I wanted to tell you,” Embar said.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

She turned, scared, braced for whatever might be going wrong; she grabbed Jake and tried to figure out where she could run if running were called for — and then Embar stepped through.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

“Anything else going to be coming out of that gate,” she asked Embar.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002

He reappeared like washes of watercolor poured into an Embar-shaped jar.

Memory of Fire Lisle, Holly 2002