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Pleasant surprise!
Two chapters in a week!
The logistics of extricating themselves from this situation and being able to get back to Palarand before the rains is quite the administrative nightmare it seems.
I mean, there is the humanitarian fronts of funerals, setting up a camp that can support the effort, nursing back to health the abused and ill and ultimately repatriating them to there countries where possible etc. It is a full on humanitarian crisis.
But out of all this, it is providing the future river patrol/service the experience of coordinating with each other to handle whatever will come.
It has become a training ground as well as indirectly providing a test bed for development of future technologies.
There is just so much that is going on.
Finally, it is likely they will have another passenger and possible crew member on the way back as this new transferee will need orientation.
I am always pleased as punch when an Anmar tale comes out.
Too much plot
I have probably overdone the Hamalbek incident but you know what they say about unintended consequences. This time, I think, Eriana is just going to have to leave it all behind in order to return downriver before the Rains. (Hmm. Thinks. That might mean she is upriver for part of next year when Garia is due back. Have to factor that in.)
Of course setting up a whole military service was always going to become a very large project and we are seeing what happens when that does, from the very beginning. There is probably a whole tale to be written about that and the things that happen but that isn't the focus of this particular story. (Waves hands)(Details happen in the background)(Waves hands)
Another passenger? Very likely, depending where he does come from. Writing Ketko could become very interesting.
Penny
Dogs have owners; cats have staff. Grand-daughters have minions.
The return...
Down river doesn't need to extend past Garcia's arrival. If I understand the Seasons of Anmar correctly, there are a few months, which are longer than ours, between the end of the Rains and Mid Winter. We know the Visond is not back during the Rains, but according to Robanar, Eriana is at port during the Mid Winter celebration, per your story of Maralin. Those few months should be enough to get her back to Palarand. Providing nothing happens, which you control. ;-)
Aine
I control?
You jest, surely. Controlling this mess is much worse than herding cats. My characters apparently know what they are doing but it is only occasionally that I get given a little hint or so. All I can do is keep pounding around on this hamster wheel and keep writing what they tell me.
Penny
Dogs have owners; cats have staff. Grand-daughters have minions.
I love it!
Actually, I have some theories concerning that. Maybe I'll do a blog post sometime to explain my theory. It sounds like you may agree with it. If I do I may send you the link to ensure you see it.
Aine
First....
Let me say, I hope you are feeling well. Secondly, Thank you so much for the second chapter. I was not expecting one so wasn't really watching for one. I just happened to refresh the Tales of Anmar page on my browser out of habit. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
You have a most glorious way of giving us cliff hangers! I really want to know where our mysterious transferred is from. This is getting exciting.
As the previous commentor said, there are many things to do before they can head back to Palarand, but we know from other stories, that they don't. I can't wait to see where they end up residing for the Rains.
Thanks again!
Aine
Thank you
Yes, for some reason this one was easier to write, wheras the previous one was delayed by any number of interruptions.
It wasn't that I didn't know what to write, it was everything else that was going on. Which, fortunately, does not include my health at the moment. Not much has changed except that the pharmacist at my surgery keeps insisting I take more and more medications, and I haven't even had an op yet! On that front I'm still on a waiting list so it is mostly business as usual though I can't do any heavy work like gardening.
Our mystery man is going to give everyone headaches including me. You'll see why in a little while when the truth dawns. Meanwhile, there's a fair bit of juggling to be done with people and places and not a lot of time to do it. Most things can be handled but the date of the Rains was fixed by Julia and that means another (plot) deadline for me. Fun times.
Penny
Dogs have owners; cats have staff. Grand-daughters have minions.
Thank you, for another great chapter!
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I greatly appreciate all of your well constructed, interesting stories. Let me add my sincere thank you. For sharing with all of us readers eagerly a lot more of your writing. I hope your health continues to improve to allow you to provide us with some more great reading. One of my problems is that I'm a bit of a perfectionist. Your personal problems don't seem stop your excellent writing. I tend to ramble on, so I'll stop with another sincere thank you, thank you!
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Canopy for the Visund
Am I mistaken, wasn't the Visund fitted with a canopy which was removed and stored before Eriana and crew set out? Even if they have one, moving on a river that is bound to get faster and larger with the rain is not going to be a ride anyone would relish. White Water rafting in a ship, now that would be a rush.
I'm thinking Ursula wasn't understanding the man's jumbled mutterings because nothing was coherent. Yet she has a suspicion he was one of those transported from another world. What is his purpose on this world?
Hugs Miss Lane
Barb
Life has some bumps and potholes along the way. Try and not make an abyss out of a gopher hole.
Oklahoma born and raised cowgirl
Canopy
You're right about the canopy, but you were supposed to 'overlook' that feature until the Rains actually arrive :)
It won't help them much except right at the start, since the river will become unusable almost immediately. Have a look at the beginning of this chapter to get an idea of the problem. The river, of course, would be worse, since the banks would be far apart and the course of the river invisible. Think of it like driving in thick fog. Without headlights.
It would enable them to move during a normal rainstorm, perhaps a sustained period that would last more than a bell or two and the need was urgent. It means dismounting the mast but that is apparently an easy thing on Norse longships.
About Ketko: yes, he was feverish so some, but not all, of his mutterings would have been just rambling. It may not have been immediately apparent but it requires the transferee to hear a certain amount of a new language before it clicks into use in their brain. Having a fever in your speaker wouldn't help.
How Ursula uses this new language will be revealed in a chapter or two. There are potential problems revealing her abilities here.
Penny
Dogs have owners; cats have staff. Grand-daughters have minions.
It seems Karan
Is well on her way to becoming a man. So do the muscles start developing from here?
Name confusion
Karan is the Yodan junior doctor. Kaldar/Kaldara is the F2M young person and yes, muscles will soon begin to develop, although he has a lot of growing to do yet. He is now having the right kind of attention from the older Norse and they are treating him as they would a proper ship's boy.
I would expect (i) his partially-developed breasts to shrink, (ii) his shoulders to widen and lastly he would begin to grow much taller.
Girls would be taller if their Human Growth Hormone wasn't stolen by puberty to help develop their girl parts. Still, it seems most of them don't mind.
Penny
Dogs have owners; cats have staff. Grand-daughters have minions.