Féonie and the Islander Regalia by Victoria Goddard
Author:Victoria Goddard [Goddard, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Underhill Books
Published: 2024-09-30T07:00:00+00:00
THREE
It would take Féonie three weeks to get home, and she had thought that an embarrassingly far distance, demonstrating just how rural and backwards her home was.
It would take Lord Mdang months.
But because she had been smart enough to go to his Radiancy, she got to go on one of the sky ships, and thus it would only take three days.
She was given a cabin, and Commander Omo had one, which Ato could have shared but he had preferred to bunk with the sailors, whom he knew, apparently, from earlier journeys with Lord Mdang and his Radiancy. This was the ship that usually sailed Lord Mdang, and so Féonie, once she got over the extremely odd realization that she was being considered a social equal withâwith Commander Omo! And the captain! She was given a seat at their tableâwell, once she was able to accept that perhaps this was a bit of a fairytale, then she could make good use of the freedom of the ship.
She talked to Captain Diogen, and what would probably have been officers on another of the sky ships, had he not run his ship (as she soon found out) according to the Islander tradition. Traditionally they had a captain, and a navigatorâapparently these were not always the same personâand the rest of the crew did all the necessary jobs.
âThatâs why you have me to dine with you?â Féonie dared ask, when Captain Diogen was showing her the splendid spyglass in the look-out.
âWhen weâre on the postal run, with no passengers, weâre not near so formal,â he replied, nodding at the sailor on look-outâa woman, and wasnât that a marvellous thing? The crew was nearly equal halves male and female sailors, and there were three (three) who were neither, and went by Sayu. âItâs not our way, on the Islands.â
âHow splendid,â Féonie replied warmly, and turned the conversation to what they thought of Lord Mdang, and what they knew of the people in Gorjo City sheâd been told to seek out.
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