Castle & Conceit by Jeremy Dwyer

Author:Jeremy Dwyer [Dwyer, Jeremy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-02-13T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 14: Sounds of Stars

Javanda was the northernmost continent and it met the Ikkith Tar Ocean along its southern coast. The continent was divided nearly in half from east to west by those same waters as they formed a deep bay. The eastern coast of Javanda met with the western edge of the Elanatin Ocean and the northwestern coast met with the eastern edge of the Atrejan Ocean.

The Wandering of Shadows land bridge extended in a southwesterly direction from the western coast of Javanda toward the northeastern corner of the continent of Revod. This land bridge separated the Ikkith Tar Ocean from the southern portion of the Atrejan Ocean and the northern portion of the Lujladia Ocean. The Dark Platinum Road land bridge extended in a southeasterly direction from the southeastern coast of Javanda toward the northern coast of the continent of Baradaxa. This land bridge separated the Ikkith Tar Ocean from the Elanatin Ocean.

Javanda was heavily forested and lightly populated except for the southern coast, which was dotted with hundreds and hundreds of shipyards and ports small and large. At any given time, new ships were under construction and older ships were being refurbished.

In the western region of Javanda, a fifteen (15) year old boy named Torin lived with his parents in a small village on the inland side of a particularly densely forested area. An observatory was located there, and it contained one of the largest telescopes used to watch some of the stars among the seventy (70) that revolved around the world. Torin knew the astronomer – a man known as Professor Celio – and so he often got to look through the telescope to study the movements and positions of the suns. At the location of that particular observatory, and for a brief period of time of only a few days – because the stars moved and caused a change of the sky before long – as many as five (5) of the nine (9) large, hot blue suns could be seen. Additionally, fifteen (15) of the twenty-four (24) medium, warm yellow suns and twenty-three (23) of the thirty-seven (37) small, cool red suns were visible.

The telescope was sixty-seven (67) feet in length and the observatory in which it was housed was surrounded by a garden. After working a day in the shipyards, Torin headed directly to the garden where the observatory was and saw Celio there.

“Hello, Torin. Would you like to look through the telescope again today?” Celio asked.

“Yes,” Torin answered. He then drank anew of the waters of the Atrejan Ocean from the vial he wore on a chain around his neck and was energized.

“Does that really help?” Celio asked.

“Of course,” Torin said.

“If you’d let me teach you trigonometry, that would help you much more. The functions of an angle are really quite easy to understand. There are just a few simple rules,” Celio said.

“Simple for you,” Torin said.

“If you don’t learn them, how will you deepen your understanding? Mathematics really does clarify so many things.

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