Solstice Future - Montage Scene 3.3

[rix_scaedu]

This follows on from Solstice Day 3.  Not immediately but you'll see what I mean.

“It’s from Algernon.”  Boris Sjeldnjar looked at the envelope in his hand with concern.  At least his mother, who lived with them, hadn’t tried to open it.

“So,” that was his mother, Ludmilla, “what does it say?  Has he invited us to live in the house in Thingborden?

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[kelkyag]

Yay, meeting the "dreary" cousins! Why yes, they are living less exciting and less public lives by virtue of being civilians with kids and no staff. That hardly makes them dreary, even the bit about being accountants. Silly Algernon.

In paragraph five, I think "he" should be Sebastian? I read it as still meaning Algernon on the first pass.

Are the "soviets" the Terrencians?

[rix_scaedu]

Thank you for the catch. I have changed a pronoun to a name.

The Terrencians aren't 'the soviets' though I think they also share a border with them. The geography's a bit different but the Terrencians are more the Austro-Hungarians.

[kelkyag]

Whereabouts is this thread set?

[rix_scaedu]

This is the world that started off with Samella Clyde who preferred airships to dirigibles in 'Ascension'. It went on to Captain Evelyn Bennett in their equivalent of the Great War. This thread is in their 1994.

Physically, where they are is in the equivalent of north-eastern Europe with a northern coastline. In our world it would be northern European Russia. Given what I think I've done to the Mediterranean and the North Sea, the northern coast could be further north than it is in our world.

I haven't named the kingdom yet. Something Norse/Varangian/Slavic/Finnish would probably be appropriate.