Tagged “colonies”
3 entries.
Harken's Landing
A debt, a bay, and a chart that has never once been corrected
Sir Ambrose Harken took the first Aethrassian charter to Meridia and named nothing. A clerk in Vaurmont named it for him, off the margin of a map he drew wrong on purpose, and two hundred years of captains have been sailing around a shoal that is not there.
StoriesThe Garden at Vellisch
Ninety-one years of colonial dispatches, in which nothing whatsoever occurs
A Lyaudite river colony was never attacked, never besieged, never betrayed and never lost. It simply stopped being Lyaudite, and no clerk in Grismere has ever been able to say on what day.
StoriesThe Yield at Bruchen Vale
A harvest ledger from an Aethrassian charter colony, complete, legible, and never once falsified
The Goetern asked one thing of the settlers who took the lower vale: leave the upper terrace unbroken. Nine years later the terrace was the most productive forty acres in the colonial system, and a clerk had worked out the exchange rate.
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