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after this and written in response to Rix_scaedu's commentThe science of psychometry was still frowned upon by many of Tekemuzh's colleagues, he knew. They said it was folly and superstition; they said that it was a misuse of the aether if it worked at all, and certainly it wouldn't really work. Usually, they stopped after he managed to make his "parlour ( Read more... )

Discovery
Discovery Part II
Part III
Part IV
Part V
I was aiming for exactly 77 words. :-)
Getting two ships close enough to converse, especially warships of very different designs, was not a quick process, and it was based in part on trust ( Read more... )

Discovery
Discovery Part II
Part III
Part IV

Otondyoo was not pacing.

Otondyoo was not pacing, because they were close enough that they could see the foreign ship, and that meant the foreign ship could see them.

Otondyoo wanted to pace, because the foreign ship was crewed by - not Bitrani, they didn't look quite like Bitrani, but still - by ( Read more... )

Discovery
Discovery Part II
Part III

Captain Titrian and his first mate spent a few moments staring at the ship coming out of the harbor.

It was flying a flag, that much they could tell, and although it was no flag they recognized, Titrian at least had not expected it to be. Over a thousand years had passed; nobody still flew the same flags or ( Read more... )

after Discovery and Discovery Part IIThe Emperor's secretary was having a hard time understanding. "Sir. Sir, if you go out onto the ship, you're at risk ( Read more... )

Tangential to but concurrent with Discovery and Discovery Part II.The miners had found the bones, and at first, nobody had thought anything of it ( Read more... )

after Discovery

If pressed, the captain would never admit it, but Titrian had always been skeptical about the concept of the Lost Colony. Ships just didn't go over the Fire Sea.If they were only now figuring out how to safely navigate north of the Fire Sea - and that only by using dirigible technology in tandem with new boat designs - there was ( Read more... )

in the same era as Edally AcademyThe messenger was having a hard time making himself understood ( Read more... )

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