The Causeway, Tuesday Afternoon
Captain Nathan Algren actually found it to be a little bittersweet, packing up the few belongings that he didn't want to part with and making his way to the Causeway. Mina was gone back to be with her League, and, while his feelings for her were strong, her home wasn't where he belonged. And here, increasingly so with each passing day, wasn't where he belonged, either.
But there was one place where he did have a home. A home, and, though he used the term tentatively, a family.
And so it was with his sword at his hip, and a bag of the odds and ends that he'd amassed in his year and a half of being here slung over one shoulder, that he crossed the Causeway. The money he'd made in his time here, once he'd exchanged it for currency more suited to his own time and his destination, would be enough to buy him a horse and some food at least. From Tokyo he'd make his way into the mountains, to the Samurai village that he'd come to love, perhaps to find some measure of the peace that we all seek, and so few ever find.
[Open Causeway is open, should anyone have any desire to catch Algren before he goes. This will be his last post, and from here he's off to that handwavey happy ending with a pretty Japanese woman and her adorable family. Aww.]
But there was one place where he did have a home. A home, and, though he used the term tentatively, a family.
And so it was with his sword at his hip, and a bag of the odds and ends that he'd amassed in his year and a half of being here slung over one shoulder, that he crossed the Causeway. The money he'd made in his time here, once he'd exchanged it for currency more suited to his own time and his destination, would be enough to buy him a horse and some food at least. From Tokyo he'd make his way into the mountains, to the Samurai village that he'd come to love, perhaps to find some measure of the peace that we all seek, and so few ever find.
[Open Causeway is open, should anyone have any desire to catch Algren before he goes. This will be his last post, and from here he's off to that handwavey happy ending with a pretty Japanese woman and her adorable family. Aww.]