“Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”
Ronald Reagan
After our midnight conversation with the Mayor, we knew what to expect when we officially arrived today...
2023-06-09 22:05:12 +0000 UTC View Post"In the sacred solitude of self-reflection, the Lodestar illuminates our path to wisdom. It guides us to embrace the power of progression and embark upon a transformative journey where we awaken our souls and unlock the hidden potentials withi...
2023-06-01 06:31:30 +0000 UTC View Post(Yes, you read the correct chapter number. This is a revision/addition due to a realisation explained at the bottom of the chapter)
“Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
“Men really need sea monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.”
John Steinbeck
Accompanied by Arawn, Namir, and Captain Kashif, I emba...
2023-05-23 17:11:11 +0000 UTC View Post“If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.”
Ilona Andrews
Now that the politics had been dealt with, I could focus on my most recent acquisition, the egg. I grinned with excitement as I slowly opened the ...
2023-05-21 01:22:03 +0000 UTC View Post“If the sky could dream, it would dream of dragons.”
Ilona Andrews
To be rewritten
2023-05-14 16:57:04 +0000 UTC View Post"The game of high lord politics is a labyrinth of shifting alliances, hidden agendas, and competing powers. It is a world where words can be weapons and silence can be deadly. Those who navigate this terrain with skill and cunning may find the...
2023-05-08 11:29:34 +0000 UTC View Post“Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”
Paulo Coelho
Our distant location and position of political isolation had serve...
2023-05-07 23:44:52 +0000 UTC View Post“Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.”
Boris Pasternak
The letter we held in hand was written and followed our guidelines. Ramil mentioned the failure of their mission, the teams' demise and his ...
2023-05-06 12:26:44 +0000 UTC View Post“Reparations can make up for stolen wages, but not stolen dignity and stolen lives.”
Abhijit Naskar
“Merda!” One of them muttered.
It summed up the situation nicely. They were in deep, deep, do-do. It wa...
2023-04-27 15:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post“Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.”
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Sinbad sat b...
2023-04-22 10:02:15 +0000 UTC View PostQuick apology for not getting a chapter out this weekend. We are now officially moved into our new place, but I am sitting on boxes as I write this. (A lot of unpacking still to be done)
I went back to Mum and Dad's this evening to ge...
2023-04-16 23:21:17 +0000 UTC View Post“Without reflection, we go blindly on our way, creating more unintended consequences and failing to achieve anything useful.”
Margaret J. Wheatley
After a day's worth of battling the beasts, they finally managed t...
2023-04-11 23:25:28 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning, afternoon or evening,
Sadly, there is no post tonight; despite my taking a week off, there is still work to be done, still in the process of moving house, packing, unpacking and building furniture from Ikea. But having ma...
2023-04-08 00:06:53 +0000 UTC View Post“Success is all a matter of perspective. It depends on where you start from and where you want to end up.”
Pat Summitt
“There, but for the grace of god, go I,” I said as I turned back to look at the galley sti...
2023-04-07 01:11:42 +0000 UTC View Post“Men of action are favoured by the goddess of luck.”
George S Clason
As I placed my hand in hers, we drew the god's attention, but it was too late.
Status Permission granted to Fortuna.
<... 2023-04-05 23:47:46 +0000 UTC View Post“From heresy, frenzy, and jealousy, good Lord, deliver me.”
Ludovico Ariosto
‘That could have gone better,’ I thought as I returned to consciousness. I could tell I was bound at the wrist and ankle without ope...
2023-04-05 00:48:54 +0000 UTC View Post“Humanity must perforce prey upon itself, like monsters of the deep.”
Lemony Snicket
I held my breath comfortably as I swam deeper. I would need enough depth to pass below the galley and not be brained by it as it...
2023-04-03 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View Post“There are things known, and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.”
Jim Morrison
The lesson Namir had knocked into me the hardest was to focus my senses while maintaining an awarene...
2023-04-03 00:47:05 +0000 UTC View Post“Never give up, and good luck will find you.”
Never Ending Story
“Other than an act of god, I can think of nothing. Even if such a boon were possible, a boost in a single stat would not be enough to save us,” ...
2023-04-02 21:28:59 +0000 UTC View PostTwelve hours to think of a way out and make suggestions. At times like these, I wish there were more than one option. Or more than one version of reality to read them all.
2023-04-01 22:31:20 +0000 UTC View Post“You got the makings of greatness in you, but you got to take the helm and chart your own course!”
Long John Silver, Treasure Island
Our ship skipped across the waves, our skills working together to streamline and...
2023-04-01 22:23:49 +0000 UTC View Post(So, new house, yay! A new leak in the living room ceiling while putting together Ikea furniture, boo! Life has been somewhat stressful recently. It could have been smoother moving house. Sorry for the delay.)
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The bishop was n...
2023-03-27 22:40:21 +0000 UTC View Post“Every seaman is not only a navigator but also a merchant and also a soldier too.”
William Pett
Lessons were never really over with the bishop, who seemed determined to redeem the Lodestar Church in my mother’s ...
2023-03-18 03:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post“Everybody’s got their poison, and mine is sugar.”
Derrick Rose
Sometime on the island . . .
“Ha, hah!” I cackled as I conjured the drug that all parents feared their children would fi...
2023-03-12 17:58:58 +0000 UTC View PostApology and huge thank you,
Thank you for all of your support over the last 18 months. Your support has allowed me to buy:
Maps for the story
Book Covers for the story
A laptop to write on
Pay my taxes on writing
<... 2023-03-10 22:57:13 +0000 UTC View Post“And though I came to forget or regret all I have ever done, yet would I remember that once I saw the dragons aloft on the wind at sunset above the Western isles; and I would be content.”
Ursula Le Guin
Me...
2023-03-10 22:55:16 +0000 UTC View Post“Consequences were a strange beast, sometimes obvious, sometimes hidden, more often than not different to those expected.”
Mitchell Hogan
A couple of months later in Libeccio
The captain str...
2023-03-06 03:19:49 +0000 UTC View Post
