The Adventures of Woodrow the Wicked by A.P. Weber
Author:A.P. Weber [Weber, A.P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: A.P. Weber
Published: 2016-03-24T23:00:00+00:00
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Woodrow slept in a bunk that night. In the morning, he ate fish and sea greens in the cramped galley. Joseph shimmied in across from him at the table and gave him a nod.
After breakfast, Woodrow wandered into the big room with the intention of eventually ending up in the library on the other side. He stopped by the workbench he had seen Joseph at the day before and examined the items sitting upon it.
“You’re a curious one,” came Joseph’s voice from behind.
Woodrow shrugged. “Nothing else to do. So you’re the diving chief, huh. I’ve done a bit of diving myself.”
Joseph squinted at him. “Have you now?”
“Last time I went down with just a diving helmet—rusty old thing. Probably salvaged off a sunken Imperial battleship.”
Joseph’s squint deepened into a slow wince.
Woodrow felt the need to defend himself. “Well, I needed full range of motion so I could perform the cephalopod sign language properly.”
“The what?”
“Cephalopod sign language. To talk to a Nanami’ho.”
“A giant hermit ceph?”
“That’s right.”
One corner of Joseph’s mouth turned up. “For a liar you sure did your research, kid. Not many people know their proper name.”
“I’m not lying.” Woodrow gestured at the large upright coffins. “What’s in these lockers?”
“Open one up and see.”
Woodrow pulled the handle on a locker. It swung open with the squeal of metal hinges. Inside hung a suit of armor.
“That’s what I thought,” Woodrow said. “Your diving suits. Those must be heavy.”
“They are. But it’s not a problem.”
“What do you mean?
“See those tubes? Hydraulics. Look at this.”
Joseph unlocked a chest on his toolbox. He lifted the lid, and that unique hydro-sprite glow poured out. Inside were four glass tanks about a hand’s width in diameter, each containing a creature-in‐miniature like the one in the engine room.
“Hydro-sprites,” Woodrow said. “Small ones. That’s what powers the hydraulics in the diving suits?”
“My own invention.”
“I would very much like to see that in practice.”
“Sorry. No scheduled dives on the way to Merchtown. Seems we’re in a hurry.”
✶
Woodrow found Cole in the library, his eyes cracked with red fissures.
“Have you been here all night?” Woodrow asked.
Cole produced a timepiece from his coat, consulted it, and said, “Yes.”
“Find anything?
“No.”
Cole stood, arching his neck forward then from side to side. “I need to get some sleep. We’re coming up on the great basin aqua forest; I’ll need my wits about me.”
With that Cole hobbled off, leaving Woodrow alone in the library.
Woodrow began to peruse the books, and found one about the history of the Tarmic Empire’s convoys through the equatorial Fire Veil and the technology developed to make the crossing possible. The book began with early theories and misconceptions about the equatorial ring below the tropical band—ideas northern philosophers had developed from their armchairs. In ancient days it was believed that, as one moved south, temperatures would continue to rise until one reached an impassable wall of fire—which was the seat of the element’s presence on the earthly sphere.
In the golden age of Tarmic exploration, this proved to be quite nearly true, although a wall of flames would be too dramatic a description.
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