We didn’t play this bit so I worked it out in my head, mostly while swimming. Now Mother Cora is off to the east with the king and the queen! It’s because Aidan went there with the army and he saw a lot of people in villages who need a…

She’ll make sense of semsin yet… And talk to doctor Jeran some more, because she needs to get all that experience out of her system but she doesn’t want to hurt her family with it. On the other hand, it doesn’t impede her so much that she needs Airath or…

She’s found a sister, and everything is so strange that she’s taking it all in stride, leaving the next bout of culture shock for later. Turenay was full of flags and decorations, and I thought that it was to celebrate that the king had won the war, but it was…

This explains why she didn’t arrive in Turenay until nearly the Feast of Mizran when she arrived in Essle in spring. When the cart came it wasn’t only me and Dayati and Jerna travelling to Veray, but another veteran too, a man who had gone to war because the woman…

Either she understood only -e-ay, or the boats to Veray and Lenay were leaving at the same time and she ran and got on the wrong one by mistake. I think I fell asleep on the boat right away, because someone kicked me awake and told me that we were…

It’s clear that she’s good at languages, though she doesn’t really know that yet! I also like her image of “a kind of tiny yoke with baskets” for a pair of scales. We were on that ship I don’t know how long. I do like being on a ship, I…

She’s getting more and more confused because things are less and less like what she’s used to. But confusion is her normal state now, so I don’t think she really notices. Now we were really getting somewhere. There were still very few people in the street, but the ones we…

When she gets emotional, she rambles more. And again I may not have all the events completely correct, though the spirit is there. If it ends in an awkward place, that’s because I wanted to post this for people to read while I rack my brain about the incident that…

I know that I’m leaving out lots of things, but Mousy probably doesn’t remember everything either –for all she’s from a culture without writing– because so much is happening to her. I’d never been in a city before though I’d heard much of cities, but even I could see that…

This covered a lot of story-time but we got through it fairly quickly, because most of what happened was travel and scenery. Very soon we were on the move again. This forest was so strange that I didn’t know which fruits or leaves or roots we could eat, and nobody…