favorite lines i wrote recently from my very unedited wip, to the ends of the earth, that i needed to share with someone other than my cat who won't leave me alone:
The cool winter months stretched on. If he did not know any better, he would assume that God had wanted an incredibly long winter that year. Perhaps as a punishment. What better way to punish your subjects than to freeze them?
The two continued on in renewed vigor, their conversation steering away from August and wives waiting back home to the recollection of memories long past.
“It will,” said Maplebeck. “I am sure once we arrive, it will be as if God is on our side and not theirs, sir.” The commander chuckled softly. “I will pray that you are right.”
As the women gathered to leave, Celia cast a wayward glance to her abandoned teacup. While she had never been one for the otherworldly, she could not help but make out a small lock in the tea leaves left behind. What it meant, she did not know.
