Confessions of a Rebel Angel by Timothy Wyllie

Author:Timothy Wyllie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: New Age/Spirituality
Publisher: Bear & Company
Published: 2001-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

We all should have known better. I understand that now I’m looking at the rebellion through a clearer lens. And herein is one of the challenges I face in preparing this narrative: I look back as I write with such a profoundly changed state of mind that it’s difficult to chart precisely when I first realized the folly of my decision to side with the rebels. So please be patient with me, kind reader, and remember that Watchers don’t learn as fast as humans. And we’re certainly not accustomed to making mistakes!

Within ninety years the tribes we had liberated—the very ones we had strategized for and whom we’d favored with advanced weaponry—all coalesced and attacked the city of Dalamatia, laying a siege that lasted a year before they finally overran the place.

Fortunately for the secession staff and their companions, this delay offered a chance for them to get out with their midwayer associates and camp followers and head northward. The escape was well planned and was largely facilitated by their midwayers, who fomented mayhem in the camps of the tribes besieging the city. By setting fire to tents carefully chosen to suggest a deliberate provocation, they managed to turn tribe against tribe, distracting them sufficiently for the staff and their entourage to slip away on a moonless night while the fighting was at its height.

The staff had always maintained a presence on the coast, a few miles to the south of the city walls, and had built a small fleet of boats they kept in a sheltered harbor. This had provided the city with a steady supply of fresh fish for as long as the staff had been there. Knowing the value of polyunsaturated omega-3 fatty acids in brain development, they had made sure it was one of the first actions they undertook after they completed the city walls.

The boats, of course, were of an extremely simple design, as they weren’t allowed to be too far in advance of contemporary boat-building standards. From the surprised comments I heard when the staff finally did set sail, it sounded to me as if the designers included a number of hidden improvements that served to make their trip up the Persian Gulf safer and more comfortable. The inclusion, for example, of a small retractable keel gave them access to the shallow waters of the many swamps they encountered, as well as enabling them to outrun the storms that could blow in when they were in the open Gulf.

A small village had grown up overlooking the harbor, housing those privileged humans who could be trusted to work on the boats. When it was clear the city was going to be overrun by the barbarian tribes, the staff made sure the boats were readied for their escape. In another unforeseen consequence, some of the native boat-builders who had worked with the staff on the secret improvements and who’d chosen to stay behind when the staff left, subsequently revolutionized boat design in that area of the coast.

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