The Travels of Anadrasata Nearabhigan: Day 1

[rix_scaedu]

I wrote this as an excuse to use my fountain pen on really nice paper.  The names have no internal language consistency, except to my ear, and there is one name spelling error that I have carried over from the handwritten original that I intend to run with - an in-story explanation will probably be invented at some point.

I will also need to do a map. And a calendar.  Plus maybe a list of things and people....

Anyway, this piece of nonsense runs to 337 words.  I hope that you enjoy it. 

Here is the Index Page.

Twirsday, 11 Ochd, 1893C.E.

Dear Journal,

You were a gift to me from my mother, Contreala Nearabhaign, so that I can record my adventures on this journey I have been sent on.  Frankly I suspect that this duty dressed up as a gift, she has instructed me to write in it every day, is intended to benefit her somehow and not me?  Perhaps she intends to publish it in a travel book on my return - all profits to her, of course.

This journey I'm on is because my Great-Aunt Giltreeada Forbaign wrote to her niece, my mother, and asked her to send her one of my mother's daughters to help her sort out her household and affairs that she is widowed.  Anna, short for Annapeala, is married to Castor.  Our younger sister, Surasenala, is studying Natural Sciences at Our Father of Divine Sorrows and Mother does not wish her to leave there and its accompanying exposure to so many young men od good family and fortune.  As my role in her life is as Mother's unpaid housekeeper, I, Anadrasata Nearabhigan, have been volunteered for this expedition two thirds of the way around the Circle Sea.

Anna and Castor will be looking after Mother while I am gone.  I do not expect that to go the way any of them expect.

Today is the first day of my journey - the local airship from home to Glastriel where I will catch the next airship from Glastriel north to Amnestri.  The other thing I need to do in Glastriel is speak to the ticket office and lock in my bookings so that only I can change or cancel them.  Frankly, I don't trust my family, including our brother Tallaig, not to try to make me come back to look after Mother, leave me with Great-Aunt Giltreeada, or strand me somewhere else along the journey.  As if things weren't already complicated enough by Great-Aunt and Great-Uncle's decision to stay in place after the successful rebellion of 1862.

Anadrasata Nearabhigan

Comments

[zero_pixel_count]

Well, you've done it again :) (made me intrigued to read more in less than 400 words, that is)

[rix_scaedu]

:)

[kelkyag]

Yes, Rix really does excel at FASCINATING introductions. And young women with complicated family situations ranging from annoying to murderous ...

More please, rix_scaedu? And how are you and your new pen getting along?

[rix_scaedu]

The pen is good.

And today I pick up my new desk top computer because the old one died....

[kelkyag]

Best wishes for the new computer!

[rix_scaedu]

Thank you!

I think I have gotten something that will future proof me for a few years.