“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 of me. I think we would be making some interesting ...
2023-10-25 10:18:22 +0000 UTC View Post“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 the squirming of Nyx attempting to escape my clothi...
2023-10-24 12:18:28 +0000 UTC View Post“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 within Namir’s robe as his chest rose and fell. H...
2023-10-23 17:40:57 +0000 UTC View PostAmbience music for reading the chapter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhvyGiJs120
“Tough times never last, but tough people do.”
Robe...
2023-10-22 11:40:55 +0000 UTC View Post“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 the sunlight. Looking up, I could see a clear sky a...
2023-10-09 22:18:51 +0000 UTC View Post"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. This morning’s sail had been smooth and speedy. Bu...
2023-09-26 18:53:30 +0000 UTC View PostGood 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 I am pausing payment for October to hopefully bal...
2023-09-26 18:33:58 +0000 UTC View Post“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 under the Silversea House banner, toward Wester L...
2023-09-11 22:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post… 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 old stage early and requires 24/7 supervision, enga...
2023-08-28 20:14:44 +0000 UTC View Post“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 saint exupery
. . .
“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 difference. . .
I was still loved despite rememberi...
2023-08-20 19:20:12 +0000 UTC View PostSeveral 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. There may be another prep chapter to write about ad...
“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 well come completely clean. They had supported me th...
2023-08-13 05:46:34 +0000 UTC View PostOptional Music - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ_fkw5j-t0&list=PLsOmb1C5jfLPAq9h3qEiCxAO4xdnMbfew&am...
2023-08-10 02:03:39 +0000 UTC View Post“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. Pearls, salt and purple were still our chief export...
2023-08-08 19:03:02 +0000 UTC View PostThe 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.
Notlimah
(IRL - still hoping luggage...
“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 time in my lair, I found the Silversea family all a...
2023-08-05 16:21:35 +0000 UTC View PostWhich would you prefer?
Dragon name and gender.
Female = Nyx
Male = Nox
Welcome to suggest others, but heads up, I quite like these two.
“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 attention to the class. Most of the spells came auto...
2023-08-01 23:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post“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 together, I mused that the pea that was the hardes...
2023-07-31 23:00:57 +0000 UTC View Post“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 anger across his small captain’s cabin. There was n...
2023-07-29 18:19:58 +0000 UTC View Post“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 living there, Arawn grimaced for a second at the un...
2023-07-23 23:27:45 +0000 UTC View Post“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 aisle, hoping to find a new road or secret entrance...
2023-07-17 00:33:08 +0000 UTC View Post“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 with silver hair and piercing blue eyes, the towerin...
2023-07-08 20:28:37 +0000 UTC View Post“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 for time nor tide. Less judgement than wit is more s...
2023-07-07 08:20:57 +0000 UTC View Post“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 minded when we were discussing the generalities o...
2023-07-05 10:26:36 +0000 UTC View Post“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.
“The first secret of getting what you want i...
2023-06-30 22:47:58 +0000 UTC View Post“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 way outwards, spiralling further and further out i...
2023-06-30 20:16:26 +0000 UTC View Post“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 shoulders. Having already spoken to the mayor and ...
2023-06-18 01:14:34 +0000 UTC View Post“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 infant! The new Lord Silversea was still a child! ...
2023-06-10 17:53:34 +0000 UTC View Post