Still surprising
After all that has happened you would think that things wouldn't surprise me any more. Well you'd be wrong. I awoke part way through the night last night to the sound of music, it sounded like bells, and there were lights coming from out in the ocean. I got out of Santi's car and walked down to the beach in the dark but I couldn't figure out the source of the music, or the lights. I heard noises, so I went back and got Santi, and told him what I'd seen. At first he was freaked out, because the lights from the Ocean reminded him of the lights he'd seen in Fern Ridge before the giant glowing lady came out and he lost a day of time. However, after some minor investigation, it was clear that this was different. We went back to the ocean to see if we could find anything else out, and as we neared the water, we started hearing and seeing splashing and catching glimpses of tails in the water, like a whale or large fish, and then, as we watched, mermaids started poking their heads out of the water, and before long a huge submarine surfaced, clearly the source of the lights. But this wasn't a sleek modern submarine, it was covered in gears and knobs, and seemed to be powered by a huge water wheel attached at the bottom. Out of the larger submarine shot what can only be described as a submarine dingy, barely 6 feet long. It beached itself and out of it climbed a knocker that I think I recognized from my introduction at court. He informed us that we were to accompany him back to the hold, that we were needed post haste. Despite his gruff demeanor, I saw no reason to disagree, so Santi and I squeezed into the dingy with him and were transported to the large submarine.
If the Submarine has seemed large from the outside, then it was colossal on the inside. The primary room as a huge ballroom with arching ceilings a hundred feet above, complemented by a brass and wooden bridge, a well fit galley, sleeping quarters, engineering room and probably dozens of rooms I couldn't seen. The decor was very art deco, and Victorian. Lots of lace and gilding. We passed the time playing whist with our Admiral's first officer, and before we knew it we were deposited in front of a huge stone keep.
If the Submarine has seemed large from the outside, then it was colossal on the inside. The primary room as a huge ballroom with arching ceilings a hundred feet above, complemented by a brass and wooden bridge, a well fit galley, sleeping quarters, engineering room and probably dozens of rooms I couldn't seen. The decor was very art deco, and Victorian. Lots of lace and gilding. We passed the time playing whist with our Admiral's first officer, and before we knew it we were deposited in front of a huge stone keep.