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January 23 - January 28, 2022
People feared the sea, but Yalb had never understood that. The sea was so open, so welcoming. Pay her a little respect, and she would carry you anywhere you wished to go. She’d even feed you along the way and lull you to sleep with her songs at night.
That was the true purpose of a merchant. To find complementary needs, then bridge the distance between them so everyone benefited. It wasn’t about what you could get from people, but what you could get for them that made a successful merchant.
Rysn had been warned never to mistake Thaylen naval traditions for Thaylen naval regulations. Regulations, after all, were written down—which made them far, far easier to change.
Rysn had, hopefully, inverted the omen. That was the traditional way to disperse such a thing: to derive a good turn from it. To those who followed the Passions, this showed that fate was on your side, even when an omen tried to darken the way. You could always defeat gloomy Passions with optimism and determination.
But he got the feeling that the captain was the kind of person who had been born an officer, coming right on out of her mom with a hat on and everything.
You didn’t let your friends drown in nameless oceans during a frigid storm. That was, sure, basic friendship rules right there.
I want to sleep in a bed of boundless lucre tonight.” “Aren’t you . . . an ardent?” Kstled asked. “And therefore forbidden personal possessions?” “Doesn’t mean a lady can’t lie on a big heap of gemstones,”
He might be some nightmare from the depths, but he was still a person. And people had needs.
“Please, gods of the ancient Herdazians,” Lopen whispered. “Don’t let me get killed by a monster that looks so stupid. Please.”
“Who could hate you? It would take a special kind of bitter soul.” “That statement, like the Lopen himself, sounds like it comes with a quite spectacular butt attached.”
And in a way, she found that she felt comforted. If no one had traveled this path before, then she didn’t have to compare herself to anyone, did she?
