Chapter 212: Clothes maketh the man
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
Mark Twain
Now fully clothed in wolf and hare fur, I wondered what people would make o...
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Chapter 211: Taking stock
“Hunger is the best sauce in the world,”
Don Quixote, Miguel De Cervantes
Namir’s POV
I awoke to the smell of roasting rabbit, or rather, I was awoken by t...
2023-10-24 12:18:28 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 210: Catching dinner
“If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.”
Confucius
The first thing my senses picked up were the mana signature, and the presence of Nyx huddled w...
2023-10-23 17:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 209: All things pass in time
Ambience music for reading the chapter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhvyGiJs120
“Tough times never...
2023-10-22 11:40:55 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 208: Eye of the Storm
“When you are in the eye of the storm, you are often not aware of the whiplash around you.”
Hugh Bonneville
Suddenly, Namir and I broke through the darkness into t...
2023-10-09 22:18:51 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 207: Rough waters
"Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm waters, every ship has a good captain.”
Swedish Proverb
It’s said a smooth sea never made a skilful sailor. Th...
2023-09-26 18:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostPaused billing for a month
Good morning, afternoon or evening,
September has been a bit of a bust, with only one post so far. I am hoping for more, but wondering if the stress of producing is paralysing me a little. So...
2023-09-26 18:33:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 206: Solo sail
“You haven’t lived if you haven’t sailed.”
David Sedaris
I sailed accompanied by Nyx, followed by my father and a ship full of the former enslaved, now sailors...
2023-09-11 22:15:32 +0000 UTC View PostNot dead or stopping …
… just delayed.
We flew back from America over last couple of days via Ireland.
I used to be able to write on planes trains etc but baby boy has reached terrible two year o...
2023-08-28 20:14:44 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 205: Building a Boat,
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the word and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”
Antoine de ...
2023-08-22 05:01:10 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 204: Unburdened
“Remove the emotional and physical clutter from your life so you can soar.”
Judith Orloff
I’d told them. . .
I’d told them it all, yet it made no differe...
2023-08-20 19:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostWhat next?
Several people requested a repoll or found choosing a single option difficult.
So here it is again. :D
I feel chapters 201, 202 and 203 covered coming clean, quest and kingdom building. T...
Chapter 203: Spilling secrets
“Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.”
Elizabeth I
In for a penny in for a pound, if I was coming clean, I might as we...
2023-08-13 05:46:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 202: Baring your soul
Optional Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_fkw5j...
2023-08-10 02:03:39 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 201: Coming Clean
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
Mark Twain
Life was going well; trade was continuing to grow between the three islands of Wester. P...
2023-08-08 19:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhat next?
The longer the story goes, the more threads there are to write about. What would you like to hear about next?
Feel free to add options I have forgotten to mention or just personal requests.<...
Chapter 200: First meetings
“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
Ursula K.Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
I rushed up through my tunnels. Having lost track of t...
2023-08-05 16:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostNyx or Nox?
Which would you prefer?
Dragon name and gender.
Female = Nyx
Male = Nox
Welcome to suggest others, but heads up, I quite like these two.
Chapter 199: Hatching
“It simply isn’t an adventure worth telling if there aren’t any dragons.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Bala Nerano.” I went through the motions without really paying at...
2023-08-01 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 198: Year 6 and ¾
“What you discover about life’s shell game is that it’s hardest to follow the pea when you’re the pea.”
Robert Breault
As we watched the two envoys set sail ...
2023-07-31 23:00:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 197: A shell game
“I consider no man to be a magician unless he can perform the cups and balls.”
Houdini
Lord Larimar’s envoy, Sir Roland Ravenswood, stalked back and forth in ang...
2023-07-29 18:19:58 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 196: Breath of life
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is so clearly Ocean.”
Arthur C. Clarke
In the underwater tunnel, lit by the bioluminescence of the creatures l...
2023-07-23 23:27:45 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 195: More than one way in
“Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
As the morning sun filled our sails, we approached the southern side of the a...
2023-07-17 00:33:08 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 194: Waiting in the Wings
“To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.”
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Lord Larimar’s envoy Sir Roland Ravenswood stood on the cliff. Topped wi...
2023-07-08 20:28:37 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 193: Ballast
“Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water ballast, we turn it around: Man waits not fo...
2023-07-07 08:20:57 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 192: Hidden Currents
“The ocean is a storyteller, with secrets hidden in its depths and tales etched in its currents.”
Anon
“No, you’re not going.” The Neriad leader Huli had not...
2023-07-05 10:26:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 191: What do you want?
“Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.”
Dale Carnegie
“What do you have to offer?” Captain Kashif was keen to get to trading. 2023-06-30 22:47:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 190: True places
“It's not down on any map; true places never are.”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick.
Our spiral uncovered nothing new nearby Wester Levante, so we continued to work our ...
2023-06-30 20:16:26 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 189: Back to the Hunt
“Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate.”
Pirates of the Caribbean
I was riding high, literally and metaphorically, as we moved back to the Alzena on Arawn’s ...
2023-06-18 01:14:34 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 188: Concluding negotiations
“The quality of our lives depends not on whether or not we have conflicts, but on how we respond to them.”
Thomas Crum
Baron Corus's POV
An ...
2023-06-10 17:53:34 +0000 UTC View Post