Dark Splendor
“Silvia Bradstreet stood alone on deck as the Eastwind docked in the small harbor of Schlange Island, her skin rose-tinted from the gusty wind which whipped her hair around her like a dark, luminous mist. She felt an excited flutter in her heart as she prepared to disembark. The voyage from London had seemed endless and had been fraught with bad weather and bad company.
Today was a new beginning, one she had dreamed of many stormy nights at sea. Today she would begin her term as an indentured se...rvant to Wilhelm Schlange. Anxiously she looked past the sturdy, weathered timbers of the pier to view a land like none she had ever seen.
Rapping her fingers anxiously against the rail, she gazed at a square tabby building not fifty yards from the dock. Beside it spiky green plants fanned leaves sharp and pointed as knife blades above the dense underbrush. The gnarled and twisted trunks of trees had edged their way toward the sea. Long branches dipped to the ground like huge tentacles waiting to snare unwitting prey, and from the lichen-covered bark hung strands of limp gray moss swaying lightly in the constant wind that swept in from the ocean.MoreLess
Today was a new beginning, one she had dreamed of many stormy nights at sea. Today she would begin her term as an indentured se...rvant to Wilhelm Schlange. Anxiously she looked past the sturdy, weathered timbers of the pier to view a land like none she had ever seen.
Rapping her fingers anxiously against the rail, she gazed at a square tabby building not fifty yards from the dock. Beside it spiky green plants fanned leaves sharp and pointed as knife blades above the dense underbrush. The gnarled and twisted trunks of trees had edged their way toward the sea. Long branches dipped to the ground like huge tentacles waiting to snare unwitting prey, and from the lichen-covered bark hung strands of limp gray moss swaying lightly in the constant wind that swept in from the ocean.MoreLess
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