Crow of the Ocean - Part 3 OF 3
The following is the third part of a story I've been writing on the train this past year. It is done, just in time for my release from the army. This is fortunate, as I'll have no reason to attend the train every day once I'm released! If you've read the previous two parts and have come back for a third helping, I am rather grateful. Enjoy. CROW OF THE OCEAN PART 3 There are a plethora of possible sensory assaults by which one might be awakened: the pleasantries of birdsong; the pungent smell of fertilized fields; the warm blemish of creeping sunlight. The ballads all started with something along these lines. Anneli thought the trope as fantastical as the rest of a ballad - real people were awakened by their conscience, or at least their work ethic. Anneli was unbothered by this - ballads and poems, plays and novels, all were enhanced by the sense of unreality about them. By beginning with the merely strange, the wondrous and supernatural could blend in without a jarrin...