“Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”
Leo Buscaglia
It might be uncharted territory but sometimes you just needed to wake your sister up to find out another story and I wasn’t in the mood to wait another moment for it.
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2021-12-11 13:01:57 +0000 UTC View PostFeel like I could somehow turn that into a title for a chapter. Unfortunately, we are now a covid positive household. Adults are all double jabbed so fingers crossed things will be okay. Daughter is upset and needs lots of hugs but is asymptomatic so far.
UK rules are that if you are...
Looking at work for the next month. The posting plan is as follows.
Saturday 4th December Ch 49
Saturday 11th December Ch 50
Saturday 18th December Ch 51
Monday 20th December Ch 52
Wednesday 22nd December Ch 53
Friday 24th December Ch 54
Monday 27th December C...
“There are no secrets that time does not reveal.”
Jean Racine
“We all have our own little secrets.” My mother’s words echoed in my mind. I certainly do and I guess some have more than others. But it made me wonder what other secrets the rest of my family might be hiding from...
2021-11-29 23:11:22 +0000 UTC View PostPaternity leave is over :(
Back to work :(
Commute :(
Looking at the work that has been done for the last 2 weeks, I'm going to have to redo half of it which is time consuming and a pain especially as we have inspection by our Executive Officer next week so I have ended up bringing t...
“Everything changes, even stone.”
Claude Monet
Mother, Father, and Aleera finally arrived on the island which put an end to my Grandfather's potentially lethal training. Aleera had spilled the beans about our time on the island and Aliyah had heard enough about t...
2021-11-22 18:25:48 +0000 UTC View Post“An obstacle is often a stepping stone.”
William Prescott
As we sailed to the island, hidden in a bag I looked once more at my stats. The excitement of the fall, climb, and conniving had kept me too busy to contemplate them. It had only been two days since my fal...
2021-11-19 13:35:36 +0000 UTC View PostChapter 45 Nature, nurture or simply fate
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
William Shakespeare
Kaius POV
As I watched the tiny raft float out onto the lagoon I couldn’t help but remember the first ...
2021-11-19 13:14:43 +0000 UTC View Post“As is a tale, so is a life: Not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
Seneca
My funeral was a sad occasion.
Super senses, Echolocation, Eavesdrop, and Mana Sense allowed me to hear it from afar and see it to an extent, hidden as I was, in a...
2021-11-16 22:27:57 +0000 UTC View PostExcuse me for being a Luddite but I have no idea if I have set this up correctly or not.
For some reason, I thought everyone would pop up in discord.
Guess we will find out in a minute or two.
Warning it is nothing special yet
You are cordially invited to
The Compass Kingdoms
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“You only live twice: Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.”
Ian Fleming
In my case, I had already literally lived twice. Once in my old world, once in my new world. I had even looked death in the face as well after my free fall. But with the world, or r...
2021-11-13 23:12:15 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning, afternoon, evening,
Good news my paternity leave has started so will be at home and hopefully write a little more. However have been in and out of hospital and awake for the majority of the last 48 hours finally getting mother and child home a couple of hours ago. So next ch...
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”
Albert Einstein
During the night I awoke, startled from my sleep, wrapped in my mother's arms. I had been dreaming of falling, waking before I hit the earth, and I realised I still had a lot left to learn abou...
2021-11-08 08:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostOne of the main requests for the story so far is to jump ahead a little in age.
What do you think?
Also if time skipping should it be a month, a year, or more?
2021-11-07 09:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post“You don’t have to see the whole staircase. You just have to take the first step.”
Martin Luther King Jr
Stairs. There were so many of them and they went on for so long. I may have spent most of my childhood so far, trying to escape from my swaddling, house, sister, and Ash Isla...
2021-11-05 20:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post“First you jump off the cliff and you build your wings on the way down.”
Ray Bradbury
I had not jumped.
I had been thrown.
I had not seen that coming.
Des and Sinis in their horror certainly hadn’t.
Grandpa in his shock seemed unable to ...
2021-11-01 00:54:17 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning, afternoon or evening,
Patron is something new for me I have had it running for 3 months and finding the right balance between free and paid has been a challenging balancing act. Posting for random reasons on Royal Road slowly cut into my patron chapters and being very busy at ...
2021-10-29 09:49:17 +0000 UTC View Post“If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us Shall we not revenge?”
Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare
Mercurio celebrated my new patent of nobility as well as himself gaining a new n...
2021-10-28 12:36:35 +0000 UTC View Post“It requires a great deal of boldness and a great deal of caution to make a great fortune and when you have it, it requires ten times as much skill to keep it.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
That afternoon as I sat eating a delectable selection of fruit from around the Compass Kingdoms, fru...
2021-10-25 17:08:13 +0000 UTC View Post“A good deal is a state of mind.”
Lee Iacocca
“500!” I had eventually counted up to 500 and the back and forth between us had eventually reached the middle.
“500.” Mercurio sighed, disappointed that I had unbelievably been able to count all the way there.
“50...
2021-10-23 21:05:33 +0000 UTC View Post“We ourselves feel that we are just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.”
Mother Teresa
Feeling stupid is something everyone feels once in a while, some more than most, but I was having a burst of revelations and realisations that were mak...
2021-10-21 11:00:05 +0000 UTC View Post“A frog in a well cannot discuss the ocean, because he is limited by the size of his well. A summer insect cannot discuss ice, because it knows only its own season. A narrow-minded scholar cannot discuss the Tao, because he is constrained by his teachings. Now you have come out of your bank...
2021-10-09 18:13:42 +0000 UTC View Post“The pessimist complains about the wind, the optimist expects the wind to change, the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward
There is very little choice that I have in regards to where and how I live. I do not have any control over the matter. I can eith...
2021-10-03 14:07:57 +0000 UTC View Post“Putting your best foot forward at least keeps it out of your mouth.”
Morris Mandel
As soon as he landed on the island we scarpered. At half Aleera’s size I am still the millstone around her neck. In this case I’m bound to Aleera’s back and the cross she has to bear in an at...
2021-09-28 22:56:32 +0000 UTC View PostResponding to feedback and exit polls I have edited the tiers and the amount of chapters that you can all access. You have 3 days (today, tomorrow and Thursday I think) to edit your tiers before Patreon charges
Lv 0 for that 1 extra chapter to get over a particular cliff
but
... 2021-09-28 06:52:48 +0000 UTC View PostGood morning, afternoon or evening,
Feeling a little bit like a taxi today my daughter has had a language lesson, gymnastics, and about to go get her from a birthday party and I have also taken my wife shopping.
I am asking the question because I haven't had time to polish my latest...
(Thank you for your patience with Singer Sailor Merchant Mage I'm posting this chapter to Royalroad now and it is a revised longer chapter 27 approximately between 700 to 800 extra words no stat changes but extra info, thoughts and future paths for Kai. I am still planning on posting Chapter 33 F...
2021-09-23 20:49:34 +0000 UTC View PostQiānlǐ zhī xíng, shǐyú zú xià
A journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step.
Lao Tzu
A week later. . .
It turned out that Grandfather would be gone by the time we woke up most mornings. Not sure what it is that he does or where it is that h...
2021-09-19 18:10:53 +0000 UTC View Post“It being less difficult to obtain forgiveness for it after it was done, than permission for doing it.”
Earl of Peterborough
After a short explanation of what had happened down by the shore and a quick demonstration of my two skills Ignite and
