Nezo and the Wave Race by Wolfenshire
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Nezo kept his head forward, concentrating on the waves, the tide, the wind, the other racers nearby, and tried to forget that the camera mounted behind him was a live-feed to the Imperial Throne Room.
Special Notes: In the previous chapter there were several comments on the brutality of the Kesune species. I believe by now you have guessed we are very very far in the past on the time-line of the universe you have read about in the previous seven books. We know from the first seven books that there is a deep hatred between the Darai and the Kesune (remember, for publication purposes I had to change the names of some things, the Kitsune are now called the Kesune). You have just read in the previous chapter the event that began the war between the two technologically superior species that will last for the next five-thousand years.
Some little tid-bits you may have missed (the clues were there)
Captain Raus: Colton Cyness' great great great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather.
Atan is Atania is Carina is... a criminal? hmmm....
The Daraians are being discovered for the first time.
Prince Crow was killed... and House Crow is the ruling House of Darai... are these the events that led to House Raven becoming the dominant House on Darai? hmmm....
The Daraians com-link fits over the ear... not in the ear... that should have been the clue that they haven't invented the ear-bugs yet and we are in the distant past
Nezo Ten is..... lol.. sorry, no reveal on that yet... but the clues keep mounting up. I will tell you one very important clue in case you missed it. Nezo loves technology (as any good Caelum does) and he loves to collect treasures. That is a direct link to something very important.
Comments (15)
Arrogathor
Great POV here.
miwi
Super idea to mounted the camera behind him,klasse view fantastic work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
eekdog
Your work and writings are always interesting my friend.
ontar1
Fantastic POV , great scene, and I had an idea that we were real early in the time line and how the war started.
GrandmaT
He sounds like a Jackdaw (misspelled?). I figured it had to be the past, just wasn't sure how far back it went. I love all the layers in this epic and am really looking forward to sitting down with the entire tome. The illustration is wonderful.
jendellas
Being spied on!!!! Superb!!! xx
Cyve
Fabulous concept and marvelous creation/composition... Awesome image once again !!!
netsuke
Wonderful image!
Roco43
Nice POV
UteBigSmile
Excellent looking composition!
Radar_rad-dude
Very good work here! Bravo!
bakapo
a cool image, its different and well done!
Richardphotos
I had to look twice before I realized what I was seeing, but in my defense it is before 6 am here. superb pov that really agrees with your narrative
Mulltipass
Amazing Literature and Scene!!!
anahata.c
ala richard (richardphotos), I had to look twice too, to realize what I was seeing. (It's before 6 a.m. here too, lol.) I'm going to do another chapter today, so I can do the visuals before it, without treating them as "only visuals". (You've posted new visuals this week, and I have to tell you: As visuals alone, they are beautiful, haunting, and very suggestive. But I'm hesitant to comment on them, not having read the chapters that precede them. Maybe I will anyway, at some point, and then change my comment after I read the preceding chapter.) I'm sorry my commenting is so slow that I can only do a full chapter a week: I can be here over an hour for one chapter, alone; so, if I did a chapter a day, I'd be spending more time on Nezo than on most of the other posts here combined. It's a quandary, because I'm loving your narrative, but my comments are so long...perhaps I'll try to shorten them so I can do more of your images. It's just that "close reading" is the way I learned to speak of literature, and close reading takes forever. (And I don't even get to more than a half of your details, if that many.) So bear with me. In the meantime, to this image:
First, thanks for the periodic updates and post-dates, I appreciate how you stop every so often to give us background, new or repeated. And as for this image, what a creative way to show the race. I don't know if there's an actual porthole like this on the ship, I think you just were being creative, and I love the concept. Maybe it's a camera lens, but for some reason they had oval lenses in those days. I just like the idea of us "peeking" into Nezo through this spray-covered window...it makes us feel we can see into his thoughts. And the bow---hope I have the right term---is jutting upwards, indicating a heavy sea, or else great speed, and it's a great view. Very creative, with mountains or clouds in front of him. And you know, while this takes place in the deep past, it could also be the deep future, because who knows how many times civilizations repeat themselves over the long arc of time. But I'll accept deep past happily. It gives great mystery and magic to the tale. A very creative view of the race. I'd have never thought to see it this way.
(Addendum: I'm now reading chapter 4, and it says a camera was installed on Nezo's boat. Maybe that's what we're looking through here...)