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2021 Read-ARRR-Thon #2: Leagues of Pages
Thursday - 154 pagesAlso just realized I never posted Wednesday - 118 pages
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Ship's Log: 7547 leagues since last entry, to the best estimate of our engineers
That number may give you the impression that we were able to leave the cave and venture onward, but no, that creature, whatever it is, has a lot of patience. So we decided to explore the cave and look for an alternate exit.
It turns out caves are very large and confusing, and to that end we have been endlessly wandering around like Moses in the desert. Although at a considerably faster travelling speed. The Captain and the Navigator had a rather heated
One tunnel had current and so we followed that, and against all odds, it worked! We have now escaped the caves, and according to our Navigator, are now in the Mariana Trench.
Wednesday - 423 pagesThursday - 270 pages
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Ship's Log: 3529 leagues from last reckoning
Look if you're going to have a state of the art, possibly magical, definitely fictional submarine powered by people reading books, and you find yourself exiting a cave into the Mariana Trench, then you kind of just have to go to the bottom if for no other reason that to say you did.
Now, obviously, as a highly scientific expedition whose goals are of historical, archaeological nature, and not at all focused on finding a ship of long lost pirate gold, we immediately started exploring this under-researched underwater area.
It's very dark down here, which isn't surprising, and there's a fair number of broken shells in the sand, which also isn't surprising. What is surprising is that the broken shells are grouped together into a tidy if meandering path. Which naturally we are following. I say 'following' present tense, because we have been going at it for quite some time now, covering over 3500 leagues, and yet we have not appeared at the end. Onward?
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Can't wait to see what we find!
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Well, we're back in the caves again. Not the same caves, although honestly I'm not sure how we would tell given how much we have wandered.
The path of broken shells had steadily become denser and wider to the point that we are now definitely following a paved road. "Paved by whom?" is the question at the top of all of our minds but so far there have been no signs. Just road leading into the side of the trench and through a variety of underwater caverns.
It must lead somewhere after all. Onward!
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Saturday, May 29 = 120 pagesEdited: I neglected to count some pages for Saturday, the accurate total for Saturday is 375 pages, 255 more than I had listed!
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Sunday - 397 pages (counting the audiobook I listened to as equivalent pages)
Wednesdays are tough for me since I teach at the gym in the evening... But I should have much more reading time tonight! Hoping for at least 2-3 hours!