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24 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
But despite this intravenous crisis, the wheels of bureaucracy still ground and groaned, trying hard to maintain a semblance of normality and order. Early the next morning Jonathan was again summoned before the board and without further ques...
23 Sep 2022 5 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
On the day before their departure Jonathan was allowed to take his disciples on a walking tour of the city of White Syd. Its workhouses and glasshouses were as impressive as any he’d seen and his wide-eyed followers drank in the sights and a...
23 Sep 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
It wasn’t long after these discoveries that he began his school of bookmaking. At one end of the long cabin he made a slanted table with tall stools, a scriptorium where three could sit together and copy out the contents of a wax tablet set...
23 Sep 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
They arrived on the evening of the second day, to the warm welcome of the four that had stayed behind. The old priest was lodged in the new cabin and the next morning was given a grand tour of the site, with Jonathan at his side and the six...
22 Sep 2022 6 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
But they were just as glad, being young, to arrive in town again and greet their families. They were happier still to communicate the first inklings of this new spirit and freedom with their friends. They weren’t yet clear in their explanat...
21 Sep 2022 8 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
At this point Jonathan paused in writing his narrative. He noticed that the last few lines were lighter than the others and realized with a start that his pen was running out of ink. "Oh what a fool I am" he said to himself, loudly. "H...
21 Sep 2022 11 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
Meanwhile our bellicose Marshall had found his battle and a bloody one at that. While I was in the north he’d taken his army to the old city of Detroit. There he found an armed and hostile camp that wouldn’t even speak with our Church. The...
20 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
There was a river to the east of this spot and our combined crews built a fortress there, collecting trees from miles around. The organization of our two groups was somewhat different and our commander was jealous of any loss of authority th...
20 Sep 2022 12 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
The Bison Return When the snow had all but melted and we were packing our gear, waiting only for the fresh recruits from the city to resume our work, a high commissioner arrived all the way around the continent by sea with urgent news...
19 Sep 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Diomedes
“I am continuing my narrative,” (he wrote) “after a two-week delay, caused by my running out of paper. I now have a plentiful supply, but also a small group of followers to superintend, such are the vicissitudes of fate. But I expect to fin...
