About Festivals & Trials

Festivals & Trials is a mythic science fiction universe by G. A. Giddings, built around recursion, alien judgment, buried memory, and worlds mistaken for home.

The story begins with Transference, the definitive author-written version of the Skyfire story: ancient generals, fractured civilizations, forbidden memory, and the sentence that turns Earth from cradle into prison.

This is a universe where memory is not nostalgia.

It is evidence.

Siēshay ‘Kēshēhā / Evennin Felestine

Siēshay ‘Kēshēhā was once an Aēāhean general: brilliant, ruthless, grieving, and condemned for crimes committed in a war against a mind-controlling empire.

Sentenced to Earth’s consciousness prison, she survives for 11,000 years as fragments of host, myth, warning, and buried fire before awakening inside Evennin Felestine, a nine-year-old girl in Telarus.

As old memories surface through carving, combat, and impossible names, Evennin becomes the spark of a rebellion she was never supposed to understand — and Siēshay must face the one enemy command cannot defeat: the need to trust someone else.

About the Author

G. A. Giddings writes mythic science fiction about grief, power, judgment, survival, and the dangerous lie that silence keeps people safe.

Transference is the true beginning of the Festivals & Trials universe.

Recovered Fragment

To Lira,
and to you, who found this place—

You were never meant to find this.

And yet, here you are.

Silence is the true contagion. Memory is resistance.

The festivals, the trials, the banned songs, the names they tried to scrape from the walls—none of them are nostalgia.

They are evidence.

Come closer.

I will show you the path they tried to burn.

In recursion,
Siēshay