Water & Storm Country
“I’m conscious of the occasional stares from below and very aware when Hobbs pays us an inordinate amount of attention for longer than normal. But today I don’t care.
She teaches me about fire country, about strange spiky plants called pricklers that are filled with juice and that have skin that’s tough until you cook it. She tells me stories of the Hunters, of the enormous beasts they would bring back, of wild animals called Killers, with razor-sharp teeth and monstrous claws. I could listen to... her stories all day.
But eventually she tires of talking and begins asking me questions about life on The Merman’s Daughter. How it’s different than the Mayhem. What it was like growing up as the admiral’s son. About my mother. I tell her about the pride I used to feel marching around with my father, like I was somebody. How listening to him barking orders to the men, laying down appropriate punishment and dealing out deserved praise, would stir my heart in such a way that I wanted nothing more than to be just like him, to follow in his footsteps.MoreLess
She teaches me about fire country, about strange spiky plants called pricklers that are filled with juice and that have skin that’s tough until you cook it. She tells me stories of the Hunters, of the enormous beasts they would bring back, of wild animals called Killers, with razor-sharp teeth and monstrous claws. I could listen to... her stories all day.
But eventually she tires of talking and begins asking me questions about life on The Merman’s Daughter. How it’s different than the Mayhem. What it was like growing up as the admiral’s son. About my mother. I tell her about the pride I used to feel marching around with my father, like I was somebody. How listening to him barking orders to the men, laying down appropriate punishment and dealing out deserved praise, would stir my heart in such a way that I wanted nothing more than to be just like him, to follow in his footsteps.MoreLess
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