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9 Apr 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The waterfront was only a few blocks away, and away from the course of the fire. Many of the people in the streets were now running in that direction. Jonathan's group just followed the torrent of bodies. When they reached the quays t...
9 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It was now approaching midnight. The city was asleep and it was time to act. The men lit their torches and everyone crowded to the very back of the room while Jonathan set his charge. He wedged it under the door, lit it, and ran as fa...
8 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
There were about thirty men standing around him now, who had collected like moths to his torchlight. He turned to them and asked if anyone had made plans of breaking out. "We have been chosen," one older man said pleadingly. ...
7 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Jonathan was tackled from behind and shoved down to the floor. He hit hard and found himself lying right next to the fallen Bishop, who was unconscious and bleeding from the temple. Jonathan's arms were then pinned behind his back and...
6 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
He made good progress down the deserted coastline, anchoring by night in coves or on beaches. On the fifth day he spied another abandoned town, several miles up an estuary. But he continued skirting the coast and two days later reached...
5 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Nightmare The woman retired to the other room with her daughter, bidding Jonathan good night. Before falling asleep he remembered the little boats bobbing in the harbor. He’d sometimes gone sailing as a boy and thought that if he stayed close to...
4 Apr 2023 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The town deserted He set out one morning after embracing each of his disciples. He didn't want such an emotional parting, but it happened all the same. He set his course as before, for the coast and the fisherman, with the hop...
3 Apr 2023 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
As Jonathan decided this would be another holiday, he spent a portion of it cooking and serving them meals and trying to entertain them in between. They weren’t much used to leisure and had no idle pastimes, so he taught them the game o...
2 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
the workshop In the following days Jonathan's first care was to plant a large enough garden of vegetables to get his colony through the year. He decided it was also time to explore the surrounding hills to the north and east,...
1 Apr 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
They made camp for three days and began going through each structure together, Jonathan telling them what to look for. In the houses there were cans of food and many pens and pencils and all sorts of interesting items which they couldn’...
