Friday, June 12, 2015

Astounding Discovery: Day 11

Word Count: 66,010

Summary of Events:
Chapter 21:
Adaire and the Toírdhealbáchs went for a visit to some other residents of Laoísmellyk and had a lengthy discussion about the difference between O'Enneirey and Beldonersteinois societies. Saoirse did some sewing and talked with Gíwllyn some more about various things.
Chapter 22:
Adaire went out for a walk to the beach nearby Laoísmellyk and found a piece of one of the lifeboats before meeting some boys and telling them about his voyage. Saoirse was given a day-early birthday gift from Sgémoíse: some of his family's tartan to make a wedding dress out of.

Excerpt of the Day:
"Adaire started by heading to the east, following the sound of the lapping waves, the sound of the sea — it was really only natural that he should head in that direction, having loved on the coast his entire life.
Stepping past the last of the huts, Adaire saw the sandy beach before him, and beyond that, waves rolling, lapping and softly striking the shore. As Donnchádh had said, in the not too far distance there was a green land with lots of trees, and quite a few rocks, additionally it also seemed to have some sandy beach too.
Te beach wasn't very broad, it was probably only about as long as Adaire was tall, and it was a drop of about four and a half feet from where Adaire stood to the beach. The cliff rose with the swell of the land to his right that formed the hills to the west of Laoísmellyk and kept the Carroaghryne Rí Adaire had been told was on the other side out of sight.
Additionally, the hills hid the town of Carroaghryne that stood at the mouth of the same-named Rí; but they didn't hide the town of Kemallyk that was pretty much across the small bay from Laoísmellyk.
Adaire could see that town about as clearly as he could see O'Naómshiní — the island to the east of Laoísmellyk — but not the easternmost island, or the possessor of the easternmost point of O'Enne, apparently those belonged to a smaller island northeast of O'Naómshiní.
In fact, according to what Adaire had been told, O'Aennea — the largest of the islands that formed O'Enne, and the one he was currently on — didn't hold any of the furthest points, nor was it the furthest island in any direction, it only held distinction as being the largest island, and the one the capital was on. O'Aennea wasn't even at the centre of O'Enne.
Sitting down on the cliff's edge, Adaire slid down to the sand and glanced over at the cliff's edge; it was all stones underneath the patchy grass toward the cliff's edge, and there were quite a few gaps in the stones that would be good for climbing up.
Turning back toward the ocean, Adaire stepped forward until eventually his feet were on the wet sand, and then finally in the water. Gentle and subdued the ocean water lapped at Adaire's ankles; a subdued beast.
This same water had carried Adaire to this beach; and probably not in a kind or easy manner. Adaire could only imagine that he'd been tossed about, and maybe even hurled onto the beach by swells that crashed into the rocks of the cliffs behind him.
Far out beyond him, underneath the waves of this subdued beast that was the ocean, was the reef on which the entire fleet had likely been wrecked, and beside which their ruins laid."

Carroaghryne: karoogr'eyene
Kemallyk: keemahleek

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