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Chapter 49: One story at a time

“Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”

Leo Buscaglia

It might be uncharted territory but sometimes you just needed to wake your sister up to find out another story and I wasn’t in the mood to wait another moment for it.

“ . . . . zzzzzzzzzzzz!” Aleera pretended to fall asleep.

‘You’ll see when you get your stats.’ What did she mean? Was she just trying to sound worldly and older than she was or had I ...

Positive Household

Feel like I could somehow turn that into a title for a chapter. Unfortunately, we are now a covid positive household.  Adults are all double jabbed so fingers crossed things will be okay. Daughter is upset and needs lots of hugs but is asymptomatic so far.

UK rules are that if you are double jabbed and negative PCR test you still need to go into work so still have to go into work whilst preparing to be working from home. All in all, it is a little complicated and messing with my p...

December Posting Plan

Looking at work for the next month.  The posting plan is as follows.

Saturday 4th  December Ch 49
Saturday 11th December Ch 50
Saturday 18th December Ch 51
Monday 20th December Ch 52
Wednesday 22nd December Ch 53
Friday 24th December Ch 54
Monday 27th December Ch 55

I would love to do more but have to do my job, to  keep my job, to pay the bills, to keep the internet, to post the chapters.

:) 

Chapter 48: Time reveals all

“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”

Jean Racine

“We all have our own little secrets.” My mother’s words echoed in my mind. I certainly do and I guess some have more than others. But it made me wonder what other secrets the rest of my family might be hiding from me. Were they even hiding them at all though? I was so young and they were so old in comparison. Everyone can accumulate a lot of different secrets over time even if they were never secrets to start ...

Update

Paternity leave is over :(
Back to work :(
Commute :(

Looking at the work that has been done for the last 2 weeks, I'm going to have to redo half of it which is time consuming and a pain especially as we have inspection by our Executive Officer next week so I have ended up bringing the work home for the weekend. Left at 10pm home for 11pm. Had a go at editing it but not coming together quite right tonight. I'm not behind schedule yet but it will be Monday 29th before chapter 48 i...

Chapter 47: Nothing is set in stone

“Everything changes, even stone.”

Claude Monet

Mother, Father, and Aleera finally arrived on the island which put an end to my Grandfather's potentially lethal training. Aleera had spilled the beans about our time on the island and Aliyah had heard enough about the training from Aleera to put her foot down.

“You were to bring him out here to hide him! Not to bury him!” she shouted furious with her father.

“He could take it.” He protested. ...

Chapter 46: Stepping stone

“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”

William Prescott

As we sailed to the island, hidden in a bag I looked once more at my stats. The excitement of the fall, climb, and conniving had kept me too busy to contemplate them. It had only been two days since my fall and my attempt at becoming a super baby. So much had happened in that time, yet at the same time so little. This detour back to the island might seem like an obstacle to my growth but I viewed it as...

Chapter 45 Nature, nurture or simply fate

Chapter 45 Nature, nurture or simply fate

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

William Shakespeare

Kaius POV

As I watched the tiny raft float out onto the lagoon I couldn’t help but remember the first time I had seen Kai. The day he had come into the world had been a morning much like this one, the day we were pretending he was exiting the world, but my memory of the day started out on the lagoon r...

Chapter 44 – A short tale so far

“As is a tale, so is a life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”

Seneca

My funeral was a sad occasion.

Super senses, Echolocation, Eavesdrop, and Mana Sense allowed me to hear it from afar and see it to an extent, hidden as I was, in a backpack carried by Des who stood side by side with Sinis, alone alongside Grandfather’s boat. They were waiting till after the funeral to head to the island with me. No one had really questioned w...

Discord Invites

Excuse me for being a Luddite but I have no idea if I have set this up correctly or not.
For some reason, I thought everyone would pop up in discord.
Guess we will find out in a minute or two.
Warning it is nothing special yet
You are cordially invited to
The Compass Kingdoms

https://discord.gg/PmXVcAv2

Chapter 43: You only live thrice?

“You only live twice: Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”

Ian Fleming

In my case, I had already literally lived twice. Once in my old world, once in my new world. I had even looked death in the face as well after my free fall. But with the world, or rather my options in it, outlined as starkly as grandfather had laid them out everyone sits, a little shocked, around the table. No one doubted his veracity or the truth of his words especially after t...

Update, it's a boy!

Good morning, afternoon, evening,

Good news my paternity leave has started so will be at home and hopefully write a little more. However have been in and out of hospital and awake for the majority of the last 48 hours finally getting mother and child home a couple of hours ago. So next chapter is written but not edited fully yet. Will be posting it tomorrow late sometime.

IRL it was a boy too! :D
Kai has been vetoed as a name choice though. :(

Still exciting news for...

Chapter 42: A little learning to be done

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

Albert Einstein

During the night I awoke, startled from my sleep, wrapped in my mother's arms. I had been dreaming of falling, waking before I hit the earth, and I realised I still had a lot left to learn about this world. My growth had only just begun and I was not ready to stop or leave it quite so soon. As my heart calmed once more I resolved to find out the answers tomorrow if I could and I fell back a...

To time skip or not to time skip

One of the main requests for the story so far is to jump ahead a little in age.

What do you think?

Also if time skipping should it be a month, a year, or more?

Chapter 41: My old enemy

“You don’t have to see the whole staircase. You just have to take the first step.”

Martin Luther King Jr

Stairs. There were so many of them and they went on for so long. I may have spent most of my childhood so far, trying to escape from my swaddling, house, sister, and Ash Island in the center of the crater lake, but I would gain no joy from climbing these. Sometimes it truly was just better to be carried.

Better get started then. I wrapped my robe around me tighter a...

Chapter 40: No time to die

“First you jump off the cliff and you build your wings on the way down.”

Ray Bradbury

I had not jumped.

I had been thrown.

I had not seen that coming.

Des and Sinis in their horror certainly hadn’t.

Grandpa in his shock seemed unable to comprehend.

I don’t think that even Grandfather judging by his fury had seen it coming either.

Despite the argument about whether becoming a noble was a wise or foolish idea. None of us ...

Posting plan for November

Good morning, afternoon or evening,

Patron is something new for me I have had it running for 3 months and finding the right balance between free and paid has been a challenging balancing act. Posting for random reasons on Royal Road slowly cut into my patron chapters and being very busy at work during September and October did not help me to build that lead back up again.

In October I changed the tier system to ‘pay as much as you would like’ not surprisingly the income gener...

Chapter 39: A dish best served cold

“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us Shall we not revenge?”

Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare

Mercurio celebrated my new patent of nobility as well as himself gaining a new noble patron, the Baron of Wester Isles, with an impromptu feast.

“To the Baron of Wester Isles.” He raised a toast once his servants had laid a new table full of food for the four of us. Des...

Chapter 38: A hostage to fortune

“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

That afternoon as I sat eating a delectable selection of fruit from around the Compass Kingdoms, fruit I had never been able to eat before, I listened to the conversation flowing above, around, and concerning me. What I found out was that the Compass Continent was the name of the main continent in t...

Merchant's Map

First attempt at using Inkarnate. 

Chapter 37: The Devil is in the details

“A good deal is a state of mind.”

Lee Iacocca

“500!” I had eventually counted up to 500 and the back and forth between us had eventually reached the middle.

“500.” Mercurio sighed, disappointed that I had unbelievably been able to count all the way there.

“500, ha!” Laughed Granpa Smit. “I told you he could do it, o ye of little faith.”

“Right, right. Colour me impressed. A tall tale indeed but not one worth the cost or one I will be braggin...

Chapter 36: A drop in the Ocean

“We ourselves feel that we are just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”

Mother Teresa

Feeling stupid is something everyone feels once in a while, some more than most, but I was having a burst of revelations and realisations that were making me feel smaller than I actually was. My first mistake was that the word I thought was lake in Bulosa was actually in hindsight either lagoon or crater lake. I couldn’t see where the sea joined o...

Chapter 35: Frog in a well

“A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings. Now you have come out of your banks and seen the Great Ocean. You now know your own inferiority, so it is now possible to discuss great principles with you.”

Zhuangzi, The Way of Chuang Tzu 2021-10-09 18:13:42 +0000 UTC View Post