Féonie and the Islander Regalia by Victoria Goddard

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 with—with Commander Omo! And the captain! She was given a seat at their table—well, 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 navigator—apparently these were not always the same person—and the rest of the crew did all the necessary jobs.

“That’s why you have me to dine with you?” Féonie dared ask, when Captain Diogen was showing her the splendid spyglass in the look-out.

“When we’re on the postal run, with no passengers, we’re not near so formal,” he replied, nodding at the sailor on look-out—a woman, and wasn’t 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. “It’s not our way, on the Islands.”

“How splendid,” Féonie replied warmly, and turned the conversation to what they thought of Lord Mdang, and what they knew of the people in Gorjo City she’d been told to seek out.



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