Kalimpura (Green Universe)
“Kettle ships were not at the mercy of the winds, but wave and current nonetheless pushed her just like any sailing vessel. Still, she could leave the harbor without either the towing or the careful tacking that our own Stone Coast vessels would require. Or, indeed, Selistani. Neither the people of my birth nor my reluctantly adopted home had the trick of building the great steam kettles ourselves. The few such iron-hearted and iron-hulled ships that were flagged out of ports along the Storm Sea had been bought at great cost from the Sunward cities that held such knowledge close to hand. Even then, their masters still required engineers hired from those lands to operate and maintain the vessels.
Prince Enero was flagged from the place that built her, a city known as Bas Gronegrim. Though I would someday learn much more of the cities of the Sunward Sea, that meant nothing to me then. Besides which, my mind was at that time still much on Copper Downs receding before me.
As our distance i...ncreased beneath a trailing cloud of wheeling gulls, my vantage strengthened.MoreLess
Prince Enero was flagged from the place that built her, a city known as Bas Gronegrim. Though I would someday learn much more of the cities of the Sunward Sea, that meant nothing to me then. Besides which, my mind was at that time still much on Copper Downs receding before me.
As our distance i...ncreased beneath a trailing cloud of wheeling gulls, my vantage strengthened.MoreLess
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