"How lucky am I to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard" ~ AA Milne Lansdau Hh Inga, bites, moaning Dream in dream: day he confirmed in barn and present Jacques mirrors Florrie cherries Letters to Cath, evie, Maelwys, Beth Death taxes, Heinrich, books ? Measles baby Drawing room Baptism and weddings Dream: saying no to Sudlachenburg, or leaving when Sascha attack S: Edward painting Da, molly and varick with Matthias S: Edward graves, sketches Cecily letter. Molly and parents Claudia re: DeeDee Molly bump measure Dream: Ed left prev night, meets V. Dream. Self pleasuring captain house party. Arousal. Letter re: Verity Inga lets slip about Morgans dream White washing the shack, Claudia and Uinise covered in paint — Dream threads Day after drowning, fixing shutters, never seen self pleasure Broken arms: going to Sud to get married. Getting him off at road side. ?summerhouse Wolfblood: early with intel they want taking to Fuchs, they want him to leave within the hour >Kai. Burning villages but seems to be trying to force conversion in a particular village, sleeping with an objectionist woman. To infiltrate, confirm, and get rid. She begs for his life, Morgan most superior present. >struggles a little over it. >Gainsburg Nov62. Letter from Mina waiting, full moon. HH stumbles from a tent wiping his tongue. Claudia. Offered as recruits > Erlangen December, stops the gang rape. >Jan 63. Command pleased with him, made Captain. Feb 63First ship is called the Intrepid. Takes HH and Claudia. no Mina1yr. High Seas hijinks 18 months, very successful, but becoming more worldly. >Sept 64, sent to take stolen Dietmund Garrison in Insel. Manages to run off rather than kill most. Quiet, has to hold it, sailing missions but this is their home for now. Hasnt seen Mina in almost 3 years. Invites but her father is ailing and she wont leave. Spring, Hell's Bane. DeeDee (18) assigned to them. Claudia DeeDee again. Claudia more chill. Molly being his bane, spots ships in a cove. Mina still won't come. War keeps going. 21st July 66, Molly presents herself to Morgan. Love at first sight. No Mina for 4.5 years. Tutoring: Adalbrecht nearly dying, swept away. Already manual and oral on her. Who is Edward's kid, broken Edward Hope: moving in together, kissing getting passionate. Nice dream, carrying her over threshold. Edward letter. Widow: putting D&J to rest. Claudia and DeeDee again. Edward to graves? OS close to reality no herbs OS self pleasure house party OS virginity *He starts to dream hazily. The first thing to go wrong in their Repose had been him giving her head a little knock on the door frame as he carried her over the threshold. The second had been him accidentally ripping her dress when he undressed her. *he's nervous. Yes they'd pleased each other by hand last week, but nothing since. She must have Expectations of him after learning about sex on that damned ship. What if he couldn't live up? At least Dietlinde had been as naive as him. *it's hard to not get dragged back to that day five years ago, even as he stands naked as she folds down the sheets to the white one that will go on display* —- Nieslund (storm) ?Valois weaponry. Presently more trade with Ussura Kinter(wench) Miners Knock Blockners Kvass Vodka to Ussura, Rieker (reconciliation) fabrics to Picante, Koen (Star) trade for Grendlik Frei-Vendel-Vest-Av-Innis, Sorgi/Claudia (Rose) Capperlucia Dreams: no herbs, molly preg. **he starts to dream, something new. Molly had never mentioned any herbs, nor had they discussed preventing a pregnancy. He'd had a vague idea about withdrawing, but hadn't wanted to spoil Molly's first time by doing so, and the fact they'd not had any sexual contact before that day meant he didn't want to disgust her by spending on her unexpectedly. **The sex had gone well, evidenced by the fact that she seemed to want to share intimacies frequently in the two months since. His keenness to avoid conception meant he'd encouraged the more oral and manual sorts of sex earlier than he'd expected, receiving very frequently compared to how it had been with Dietlinde where they'd only occasionally done it, his preference being making love to her. **He’d felt guilty at first, as Molly had had no idea about any of it, but after doing these things to her she’s soon taken it upon herself to explore him similarly. it had helped ease his fear of conceiving a child, encouraging her to finish him in those ways instead. He said he enjoyed it greatly that way. It was true, but not entirely honest. **He and Molly had considered a honeymoon to go and gather evidence to support the adoption, but when Yensid had unexpectedly arrived a week before the wedding, Morgan and Adalbrecht had chosen to send him instead so Morgan could keep building the new settlement with his Father, hard but enjoyable work. Yensid’s presence had also kept him from noticing the summerhouse, and so magic had not been a factor. **It's hot in the late August sunshine, and he's pondering what they can do tonight that won't result in him spending within her, much as he wishes he could do so without consequence. The noisy chatter at the site of the final house distracts him. He's hammering in a nail when it slips, cutting a line along the side of his hand. **white handkerchief, red blood. *HH chuckles “looks like yer indisposed!”. **That was the word Dietlinde had always used when her course had come ‘I'm sorry, I'm indisposed today’ she'd gently said that first time three weeks after their wedding. She'd said it again exactly 4 weeks later, when the moon was at its darkest. **The following time the night sky was unilluminated, he didn't ask or instigate, just noticing the row of rags hung discreetly behind the house that he never saw any other week of the month. ** **He starts to ponder as the local herbalist Katinka cleans his hand with water infused with rosemary; what phase of the moon does Molly's course follow? **He recalled his Mother had made some fuss about it a week before the wedding, and it was a waning crescent then. He adds up in his head. That happened again on the nineteenth of July and again last week, but on neither occasion had she claimed indisposition, welcoming his ministrations unreservedly. HH: you okay man? HH: here comes summat to brighten yer day **Molly and Inga have a basket under their arms. Both look happy and pretty. They occasionally bring them lunch, though Molly tends not to eat with them, the high heat of the outdoors in an Eisen summer making her… feel a little queasy. It had also made her take a nap at the highest point of the sun…* /me smells so good, her own unique pregnancy scent hitting him in the same way Dietlinde's used to, making him hard and aroused despite all the turmoil in his mind /me smiles, blushing “sorry, we walked quite fast and I forgot perfume before we left” /me looks saddened “I'm sorry, I've been wracking my brain trying to think how to tell you when I know it's probably so unwelcome.” Dream: Molly widow **he starts to dream something he hasn't for a while. He had rescued Jaegers widow from the family coming to take Will and Connie from her, at the cost of killing Molly's father in law, and snuck then out to Eisen. On the way, he'd lost himself to both passion and love, and this led to her being pregnant, and now them engaged. **having met Edward, who had tried to immolate himself and ended up with long term wounds, and Edward's new family, a reconciliation has happened. *He'd also met HH again, now married to a former maid, and with a child and one on the way, and Claudia, married to a Lieutenant with a young baby and a future plan of relocating to Sudlachenburg to start a training school **He'd also met his cousin's child, Varick, and has taken the shy, sad boy who can see ghosts to the ruin. Morgan had been briefly distracted by something, but is soon focus on the 12 year old who walks the dark clearing just lit by the moon. /me looks around “I can see them now” Dream: no Florrie. *he starts to dream, something that had branched from his reality. In a dock in northern Avalon where in reality Claudia had seen Florrie, she was instead below deck mid-argument with Sorgi. Noone had seen the girl or even noticed the ship. *Without the distraction of her, his full attention had been on Kai, and even his friends couldn't stop Morgan making him pay painfully with the magic until Kai had boiled from the inside out *As expected, this had caused Morgan much harm, and he'd withdrawn back into himself. There hadn't been a delightful homecoming with desperately pleasuring her. Their closeness had slipped, and his resistance to seeing her brother's children increased. *She'd cried when he didn't want to see the baby she'd seen born who was named for her dead sister, and he'd resented what he felt was subtle pressure to make him broody. *they hadn't had sex at all until the following draw, and he'd made sure to watch her take the herbs before and after. He'd noticed how she had withdrawn from him once the sex had gone, and how she'd thrown herself into Varick and being the Veisgrafin *In Sudlachenburg he'd recoiled in horror when Sascha had told him she was pregnant, sick to his stomach at the thought of another Jana. Edward's wedding had gone smoothly, no trouble over the daughter who didn't exist to them *They had arrived early, not at the last minute, so there had been no Jogmundr, and he'd not been so distracted by his near death. He'd immediately trusted his gut about Rief, and had forced a confession from him. * They'd stayed in the grounds, making a little camp, not quite the full tradition but making do though he disliked Edward's coarse friends greatly. The wedding had been perfect. *He and Molly were slowly drifting apart, and he'd started comparing her hints and failed attempts at seduction to Dietlinde, who would have just respected his wishes. He'd performed for the draw, but it had been lacklustre, and she'd sobbed for hours afterwards. He'd still made sure he saw her take the herbs. *something seemed to have broken in her that day. She became very focused on her duty to Capperlucia, and it had been decided that Varick would stay with Adalbrecht and Verity. **The Nieblungen had never told them of Betuana, so they went straight to the island from Graben, the ship never travelling at night. She'd locked herself away during the draw, and he'd felt relieved by it. They'd still only had sex twice in nearly four months. * There'd been no Emil, and without the tiredness of nursing or pregnancy Molly had flourished in Capperlucia, gone all hours, for 3 weeks. *Morgan had hated it there, feeling superfluous to both the people and his wife, and being expected to spend his days surrounded by children. * There'd been no Morgan's Rock on the way, and without hopes for having a child he'd never considered buying Hafenlohr, so he'd gone back to Varick, she'd sailed out again. He'd been short any time she was mentioned. **Sascha had been carrying twins, and noone had realised until the second birth, at which point the baby had not survived for lack of care. He'd written. He hadn't wanted to see any hint of Jana in the remaining child. **He was frustrated by his lack of control, and the constant expectations on him. He still loved Varick greatly. he could tell by the time she'd been back and gone again with nothing but a letter that they were broken in a way that it seemed could not be fixed. **the draws would come and go, frustrating but manageable if he kept himself spent that day. He removed himself to Innesbruck with Ballard, leaving HH, Inga, and their child in Sudlachenburg. *Mina and Edward had one too, and then another just before the letter years later that asked him to come to Freiburg to meet her from her second to last voyage in Autumn 72. By then he hadn't seen her at all for 18 months, only bankers drafts sent to him for ridiculous sums. **they'd met in Cafe Kaffee, at the table they'd shared years before. He hadn't recognised her. Her hair was much lighter, her skin tanned. She dressed like a sailor, her body leaner and stronger than before **She'd smelled of the most beautiful incense, nothing like the rosewater. Around her neck, a tiny silver carving of a woman sat in flowers and fruits. **She looked so grown up and self-assured, and she'd been calm when she requested the divorce. It had been a mistake, she said, to think that her love could be enough when he couldn't ever be healed enough to marry and properly live that. **He'd realised in that moment that he'd lost again; her, himself, the future safety and security of the Grafdom. And if in that moment he'd reached out a hand across the void between them, maybe they could still have saved the world. But he didn't. *He walked away before that rage inside him that had descended upon him during the burning could consume them both. *And when he stood on that final day watching the flames that rose from the ground to the heavens, all the could-have-beens flooded into him. Did she feel that too as they faced that final defeat half a world apart? He'd never know. *he wakes suddenly, so warm, his hands tingly madly, desperately needing to discharge his magic* — HFL- Grooms: Muglar (missing left hand), Tebbit (limp). Mondel head butler (eye patch, navy livery) Dresden valet (stutter B, D, Y, S, M). Maggie nursery maid A young girl of about (fifteen has old burns on one side of her face. one half of her mouth doesn't move). Hannah Arendt housekeeper (husband was Dekker's commander before promotion, died in war, Mainz knew him). Lansdau appointed overseer. Freiarr Ansbach, where he dreamt of trouble breaking out. Yessika St Klar, widowed November, lung sickness. Two years mourning, Potts pursuing her. Lives in Freiburg, stepson inherited, loved her husband. Won't be unfaithful to husband's memory. Still in black. Good friends with Zenchlerins Kassel Kemptens Vat priest Apr 29 DREAM: damaged arms. Napped again. Next rest stop, he holds it, still a little embarrassed about last time. He's quite desperate when she says she needs to go. This time she undoes his placket then gently takes hold of him, smiling “shall I help with this again?” If it'd make you feel more at ease, you can watch me afterwards… Th 29 Dream: wolfblood Tannen, Molly's dream Zench letter. Potts brother duel.metternich Fr Apr 30 (19 wks) Day of peace, Elsie final exam. Sa 1st May James and Elsie wedding, Thomas baptism, walder, Jacques. Sun 2 May back to Sudlachenburg for Sascha delivery/ Mattias christening. Just one drop New thread: Hidden magic: summer 1667, summerhouse, magic. Having to hide it. Dietlinde wants another baby/Mol, Seb, HH visit (written)/catches him, Bonding over magic/ Seb and HH capture assassin. **He starts to dream. The sun is hot on his back as he chops wood outside his cottage, it is mid- September sixty seven, and this summer is lingering into autumn. It's too hot for Jana to be out in this, but he can hear her inside chatting away to Dietlinde in the coolness of the kitchen. From behind the house he can hear the Sudlache lapping the shore. **Everything feels good, though the emotional distance between him and his Father and brother is still heavy even two and a half years after he married Dietlinde. He is hopeful that one day they will see sense, that they will realise that she will be a good, kind grafin, and that that is more important than her status** **He hears men laughing next, not from the south where the lake is, but north east, on the path that breaks off from the smaller route from the village to Die Dauerhaftigkeit.** **He recognises Heinzharold's laugh, but not that of the other man or the girl who joins them with a giggle. They make a striking trio, the two tall blonde men and the girl on the unknown man's arm with dark red hair worn mostly loose. **Heinzharold's accompaniers seem to be wearing clothes suitable to wandering around Sudlachenburg, but the cleanliness and quality implies nobility. Morgan is wearing trousers that have been fixed more than once, and his white shirt is sticking to his back with the sweat. He'd work shirtless, but he cannot again bear that pain on Dietlinde's face when he'd first taken it off. **Heinzharold seems very at ease with them, clocking Morgan with a grin as they approach** HH: Af'noon. **The other man bows and the girl curtsies. She's younger than the rest of them, sixteen or seventeen, and has very blue eyes. In them, does he see a hint of attraction there? If that is indeed in her expression, she looks away quickly enough that it is rapidly concealed as she takes in the cottage and his garden. **Morgan feels an odd sense of recognition deep within him as he looks at her, though he is certain he hasn't ever seen her. She tilts her head as she straightens up from the curtsey as if she feels it too. HH: My Lord, may I present my friend from the Nautilus Lieutenant the Lord Sebastian Rosenkrantz, nephew of the Freiarr Insel, and Molly, his betrothed. Rosie, Molly, this is Lieutenant the Veisgraf Lord Morgan Koertig Von Sudlachenburg. **Molly smiles at Morgan, careful to keep her eyes off the way his shirt clings to him. She has a Posen accent, as does Seb who says he is pleased to meet him** M: Good afternoon, my Lord. Sudlachenburg is absolutely astounding. M: **She watches Morgan again** I do not suppose you've had much occasion to visit south west Avalon? M: You feel familiar to me, but I cannot place you… it's like a whisper of breeze through trees, or a fading echo of a sound that is lost HH: *he grins at Seb then Morgan* uh-oh, she's gettin' all poetic on us again S: *he smiles fondly at her when she gently shoves Heinzharold* I've always found that adorable about her M: **she laughs, looking at Seb** You tease me, I think! S: *he nods* Every chance I get! M: *she shoves him next, but she's giggling* HH: *he looks to Morgan* Any chance of some coffee? Or if yer busy we'll continue on back to the big house. HH: Dietlinde and Jana over at Otto's? ((Follow up with Summerhouse, Dietlinde's asking what hed think of anoher baby, but pressin need to go. Molly meeting out there. HH and Seb find the assassin on the 19th, bring him to Morgan's, night time, oral on Dietlinde, breast play too)) 3 May Mattias Christening, die Dauerhaftigkeit chapel. Mirrors. Crow. Adalbrecht, Verity with Molly and Mina. Days you could live in forever. 4 dream of Matthilde and Verity, children small, shes preg again, Penn and Ana. Jarvie leaving. Catch Edward and Mina? Tenant's meeting Edward graves 5 May Mina birthday. Dream as a child, Edward left out May 6th: Edward and Mina leaving, summer house 7 May (Mi2/in10/mo20). Life in Sudlachenburg 13 May, dream birth day confusion Paint8ng of D and J 14 May 21 wks Sascha May 15th Alice Christopher. Taking Alice and Florrie to Freiburg, the Star will take them home. James to go along to work, Elsie stay with theresa (Innes, Hafen, Baden, Frei, ferry, Hafen. 21 may, 22wk, fingering in the grass, feels a kick against his forearm End May Forresters visiting, mina no period Working in Hafenlohr and Kiev. Morgan back and forth to Mau. 31 May Jarv Holz arrive at HFL 1 June set off for Wedding/Court. Ad & Ver meeting them in Innes (Mi6/In14/mo24) 2nd house finished. start lakeside 2 to Koln 3 to Seeufer 4 to Stef. The pregnant smell of the three of them in one room, about 7 weeks left for Stef. Late 5th Edward and Mina. 7 June. Wedding. (Mi7/in15/mo25 weeks) Court, Seb, Ilena, Isiah. Edward and Mina (Suspect she's preg, sick). Potts, Mina's widow friend 8: lakehouse done, start the shed for garden 9 June leave for Hafenlohr. Travelling plans. Bye to Edward 12 Bye to Ve & Ad at Innes 13 arrive HFL 14 Bye to Uinise and Claudia going to frieburg for Capperlucia (3 months til Claudia back, hopefully for M birth/christening) 17 shed done, Claudia house 18th 19th 24 Inga quickening 17wks 25 June to Baden 26 June Golden Lantern? 27 June wedding anniversary (mi10/in18/mo28weeks) 30 June ferry to Freiburg 1 July Jarvie's 2 July Court, see Seb, Ilena, Isiah 5 July (12/20/30) 6 July Var, HH and Inga. To Insel with Amaranth Nightingale. 8 edward birthday 10 July Christopher meets in Insel. Meet Florrie and Alice in Freiburg To Hafenlohr, Jarvie too 20th Hafenlohr. Ed Mina there, Forresters 21 molly bday 27 Ad ver 28 Florrie bday, mina quickening (16/23/33) 29th on 22nd News Stef baby Morgan 31st Alice Florrie home Aug Varick 8- 17th 20th, cast anniversary. Graphic bloody Nightmare (18/26/36) confusion, cast or baby 22 leave Hafenlohr 23 Innes, checking everything 24 Sudlachenburg, prepping the Veisgraf wing, Koertig cradle, all excited 30 Molly 37wks (19/27/37) Sept. 7th Edward and Mina arrive Jarvie here with baby, getting ready to sail. 8th Edward feels Morgan’s baby move (20/28/38) No baby on the 14th. Prep for Memorial service. Parents try to get her to stay, but she refuses. 21st. (22/30/40) Morning service. Molly crying in church. Straight home, him time at the clearing. Gets back to Molly yelling. "You will rip up that floorboard or I swear I will get my husband's axe and chop the boards to pieces to get it myself" /me falls into his arms, uncharacteristically hysterical The Sudlache ring fell in the gap!!! I need it!!! *he can feel her belly harden suddenly against him, a tight contraction. She closes her eyes, breathing slowly, expression pained* It started just after dawn. I've been hoping the pains would stop. Of all the days! They were more infrequent at first, but since we arrived at the church they've gotten worse. Every fifteen minutes, lasting more than a minute. **The ring is going to best retrieved lifting the floorboard** **beneath it is the ring, and a small box** **The pain seems as bad as with the cast, the position she is in the same. Except this time she's smiling between them, resting on him and breathing with him as he'd told her before. Marta is keeping an eye, but not interfering. She smiles at Morgan** Marta: It's all progressing smoothly. It won't be too long, an hour at most. Molly adamant she will not have the baby until tomorrow *the clock strikes twelve. Molly says “oh thank god!” **with a big push, he sees Marta change positions a little, concentrating* That's it, here we are… *the baby gives a loud cry of protest about its transition from womb to world. It is one minute past midnight. Molly looks tired but smiles, watching Morgan's face* Is it a boy or a girl, my love? Varick. Ad and Ver, Martha and David. Inga and HH. Link to Sonnenschien? Lisette and Abelard box, put in when they were Veisgraf. 23rd breast milk. Teary. Not pregnant so less desire. Having to wait 8 weeks til churched. End September leaving,E&M going to court, Jarvie to Capp. Oct. Needed in Gottkirchen. Will have to leave them. Verity putting her foot down Nov. 16th (mi30/in38) Churching, Christening. Inga waters break in church. . Sudlachenburg. Take Inga back to HHs house. Inga wants Molly and Ma and Martha there. HH working in the forge. Is that his baby or Morgan’s. Pain. Delivery late in the evening. Baby girl, lots of blonde hair. Inga wants to call her after Molly, but they decide on Isabella Miriam Lehenstreue. Prophets Mass. Everyone there. Molly and Inga want to share nursing. Their baby 3m. Jan HH getting fidgety waiting for her to be churched 12th HH wants them to go to Graben too. Set off immediately Feb Graben Mina's baby 4th (41) Joseff Edward Koertig. Mar 1: period. Wants to make a trip to Insel, Catterick. Inga and HH want to go too (5m, 3m) Anniversary Jana's birthday. Sparkly mid month 5.5m, wants to get her preg Aurora Molly goes missing. Inga tandem. Lundy dream Dream of HH and M meeting Apr Missing 3 weeks after going missing, sex dream, sparkly Dream of the wedding dress fitting, Dietlinde pregnant, him horny *he starts to dream. It is 1668, late spring, and he has been out helping some of the villagers build a barn. He'd dropped Jana to Sascha, after spending the very early hours pleasuring Dietlinde until she could bear no more. He'd held his weight carefully over her so as not to rest on her big belly. It's lunchtime now, though his hunger for his pregnant wife is far higher than for food. He is already semi-erect when he strolls through the quiet house to her sewing room and pulls her to him, gently pressing his erection against her as he paws at her bump. He has his eyes closed as he says “schatzen, I need to take you to bed. Can you bear my mouth upon you again? It's all I have thought of all morning.” Dietlinde gently pulls away, and when he looks at her she looks very embarrassed. “Customer, Morgan.” *the woman stood on the box for hem alterations has long dark red hair, a wedding dress, and a deeply pained expression* /me shakes her head, swallowing hard. She blinks back tears “No, no, it's fine, I… I miss my future husband and I haven't seen him in a long time. I worry his heart may have relinquished its hold on me and sought another, thinking me gone forever.” May Still missing Mid month sparkly June 2nd Wedding anniversary. Sparkliness. Pulls north Not there. July Inga pregnant again, argue about telling him Molly bday. Sparkliness. Resolution. Inga loses the baby Aug Way home. Taken Baby with them to Golden Lantern Maubourg dies. Morgan becomes the Graf. Interrupted when fucking in the grass, Baby nearby in a basket under the shade. Varick turns 9, pressure from Ad for academy at 10. Sparkly. Gets preg. Having to be in Hafenlohr. Go for anniversary? Sept Fire Anniversary and memorial. Baby turns one. Straight home. Molly sick on the way, No period Oct still no period Nov Sorting Gottkirchen third missed period Dec Molly quickening, one on each side Everyone in Sudlachenburg for Prophets Mass, inc Florrie. HH and Inga preg again Jan 73 New years day. Madchen dream again, older. Making him listen. Molly preg again Feb Visiting Graben and Fischler. The Fuchs' are pregnant again March luck manifestation, water manifestation. Horse accident, very lucky, waters break but replenish 7ish months. Bed rest? Late march Insel, Catterick April may Gottkirchen, enjoying the good weather Holiday to Freiburg/Insel/Catterick/Vesten End of May, molly 36 week twin girls and Inga a FT boy, same day. Does Inga's delivery whilst in labour. Born at Hafenlohr, Martha and Verity there Aug Varick 10 Sept Ehren 2. Memorial service. Jan 74 Contract fully finished. Jarvie discoveries? Wants another baby, hers almost 3. Molly conceives again Varick turns 11 this year, shedding. Boys: obfuscate (Senner 1), time (Merrick 4), earth/rock (twin Lukas 5). Girls magic: Luck (Konnie 2) Water (Lorelai 3) and metal (twin Claudia 6?). Madchen Edelweis Jana Dream control/iselilija 7, twins Boy telepathic control 8, Boy telekinesis 9, Finally number 13 (inc Varick, Emil, and shifter) Persephone, black hair, eyes blue-violet, pale, mute. Very calm and watchful. Assume telepathy. Can learn any magic she comes into physical contact with. Can walk between worlds. Will pull Theus from the Void? Morgan has to trust she is following from underworld like the story. Pregnant again immediately, gets big very quick. Morgan can sense 4 weeks after she's churches. Three months. 1675 Varick shift, Faulk dies, HH Ma dies _______ **** UNPLACED New thread: Hidden magic: summer 1667, summerhouse, magic. Having to hide it. Dietlinde wants another baby/Mol, Seb, HH visit (written)/catches him, Bonding over magic/ Seb and HH capture assassin. **He starts to dream. The sun is hot on his back as he chops wood outside his cottage, it is mid- September sixty seven, and this summer is lingering into autumn. It's too hot for Jana to be out in this, but he can hear her inside chatting away to Dietlinde in the coolness of the kitchen. From behind the house he can hear the Sudlache lapping the shore. **Everything feels good, though the emotional distance between him and his Father and brother is still heavy even two and a half years after he married Dietlinde. He is hopeful that one day they will see sense, that they will realise that she will be a good, kind grafin, and that that is more important than her status** **He hears men laughing next, not from the south where the lake is, but north east, on the path that breaks off from the smaller route from the village to Die Dauerhaftigkeit.** **He recognises Heinzharold's laugh, but not that of the other man or the girl who joins them with a giggle. They make a striking trio, the two tall blonde men and the girl on the unknown man's arm with dark red hair worn mostly loose. **Heinzharold's accompaniers seem to be wearing clothes suitable to wandering around Sudlachenburg, but the cleanliness and quality implies nobility. Morgan is wearing trousers that have been fixed more than once, and his white shirt is sticking to his back with the sweat. He'd work shirtless, but he cannot again bear that pain on Dietlinde's face when he'd first taken it off. **Heinzharold seems very at ease with them, clocking Morgan with a grin as they approach** HH: Af'noon. **The other man bows and the girl curtsies. She's younger than the rest of them, sixteen or seventeen, and has very blue eyes. In them, does he see a hint of attraction there? If that is indeed in her expression, she looks away quickly enough that it is rapidly concealed as she takes in the cottage and his garden. **Morgan feels an odd sense of recognition deep within him as he looks at her, though he is certain he hasn't ever seen her. She tilts her head as she straightens up from the curtsey as if she feels it too. HH: My Lord, may I present my friend from the Nautilus Lieutenant the Lord Sebastian Rosenkrantz, nephew of the Freiarr Insel, and Molly, his betrothed. Rosie, Molly, this is Lieutenant the Veisgraf Lord Morgan Koertig Von Sudlachenburg. **Molly smiles at Morgan, careful to keep her eyes off the way his shirt clings to him. She has a Posen accent, as does Seb who says he is pleased to meet him** M: Good afternoon, my Lord. Sudlachenburg is absolutely astounding. M: **She watches Morgan again** I do not suppose you've had much occasion to visit south west Avalon? M: You feel familiar to me, but I cannot place you… it's like a whisper of breeze through trees, or a fading echo of a sound that is lost HH: *he grins at Seb then Morgan* uh-oh, she's gettin' all poetic on us again S: *he smiles fondly at her when she gently shoves Heinzharold* I've always found that adorable about her M: **she laughs, looking at Seb** You tease me, I think! S: *he nods* Every chance I get! M: *she shoves him next, but she's giggling* HH: *he looks to Morgan* Any chance of some coffee? Or if yer busy we'll continue on back to the big house. HH: Dietlinde and Jana over at Otto's? ((Follow up with Summerhouse, Dietlinde's asking what hed think of anoher baby, but pressin need to go. Molly meeting out there. HH and Seb find the assassin on the 19th, bring him to Morgan's, night time, oral on Dietlinde, breast play too)) **The tide is high in the dock in Durham, and the familiar fishing boats have been in and out. He spends a lot of time here now, fifteen miles from his home at Foxcroft, but he needs the time away so the guilt doesn't eat through him. The sea reminds him of simpler times, when he was just a sailor in the navy, trying to make his parents proud. Then he had screwed it up, marrying a girl who would have been happier with a simple man, not a Veisgraf. He walks along towards a huge ship, one that's new here. She doesn't looks like a Gottlieb, as the Basilisk, Oreste, and Enchiridon had been. Unusual to see any Eisen ship so far north, and it makes him homesick. Dietlinde hadn't been unhappy with him though, not when they lived in their cottage. That didn't happen until they day he told her whilst pregnant with Hans, their second child, that she and Jana were in extreme danger, and marrying her had put them and Sudlachenburg at risk. She had been afraid. He almost missed that, because at least she felt _something_ then, and she wanted his comfort. Now, as he stands looking up at the fine Eisen sails of a ship called the Purple Rose, he knows Dietlinde will be at Foxcroft sat in the morning room just staring out at the lake. He supposed it reminded her of home. He wished he hadn't made her move here to Avalon, where he had felt she would be safe. He hadn't accounted for how the culture shock and upheaval alongside the homesickness and a difficult birth would break her spirit so. There is no denying that she is deeply unhappy, and therefore so is he. He never thought he could miss someone who was still there. Singing from above pulls him from his brooding. The young woman has a very fine voice, and she's singing in a northern-accented Eisen accent. The song is unfamiliar, something about the line where the sky meets the sea and how it calls to her. She looks so carefree, long red curls are breeze-tossed. She's happily up there, at ease in the ropes, just as he once was ten years ago. Just as the horizon is calling to her, she is calling to something in him. He shouldn't board her ship and go up there to talk to her. It would be disloyal, even if he did nothing, because it isn't curiosity that drives him, it's attraction. He wants to, and he's at the top of the gang plank without realising he's moved. She calls down permission when he shouts to the Captain to board. As he climbs the ropes, she watches him with a lively, welcoming smile. He'd missed receiving that. He smiles back. The shape of her lips makes her want to kiss them urgently, just to slip out of his life and be alive fully again, be full of joy again, even if just for a few hours. "Good afternoon, can I help you?" she says. Yes, you can, he thinks. The ships bell sounds like a chime, and he wakes up. MISSING **he dreams he's on the beach at Lundy. He has Molly pressed against the cliff face, his bare skin stroked by the breeze and her clenching fingers. Everything is cold except the heat of her wrapped around him intimately. She feels good, this feels right, where they should be. She looks at him, speaking softly "it's okay, it's okay… I love you… We will find each other" He doesn't know what she means or why she looks so serious, but his body strains, swelling inside her. She kisses him. In the lonely bed of the Rose he awakens in ecstacy as his release shoots across his stomach. **He knows he's dreaming, but its not yellow tone. He's in a forest, and there are patches of snow. He's wearing a bear skin over his clothes. In his hands, an armful of sticks. There's the giggle of a young girl somewhere in the trees** **The little girl can only be about three. Her deep red hair sneaks out from under a cap that is white with knitted blue and yellow forget-me-nots stitched on. She's got a sheepskin coat on, and blue leather boots. She carries a big pile of sticks too. He recognises her despite her being older. Madchen. /me squats down, stacking the sticks Has to make a bonfire with magic, Mama can find it **He falls asleep, and finds himself stood in the garden of his undamaged cottage looking at it. But things are blue-toned, and he can immediately tell it is a dream. A small hand reaches up from beside him to take his.** **Madchen looks up at him solemnly. In her other hand she has Lorelei, the mermaid doll. She's perhaps another month older than when he last saw her, now close to Jana's age "Pa." Pa sad. "Mama. Here." "Pa 'member. Mama see" Stones or go inside. Missing: turns up in HH and Morgan's dream, crying at the bottom of the tree. Lost, missing home, ever met before. Get message to her husband. Captain Randall Rosenkrantz, in Sudlachenburg frequently but loves in a place called Hafenlohr, near Kiev. Has three sons who she desperately misses. She loves them and wont give up trying to find her way back to them. In Dietlinde's sewing room having hem pinned. Attraction. Story of how she is seperate from her husband and trying to get back to him Thread when missing: 1. Court martial, meets Stef and Fuchs, she chose different. She's pregnant attraction. 2. He gets assigned to Nautilus, shipwreck. 3. He and Seb for a company right out of the War, decommissioned ship which they call the Freedom of the Seas. Trade between Insel, Londinium and Durham, going well. Molly singing in Lond. Vesten heritage. Vesten crew. Thread: siren molly: in Londinium. Kauffmann chose dishonourable discharge. Fuchs stepped in, reassigned Nautilus. Seb. End of War at Johstadt Seb with them. Dreams for after War. Wants a trade ship. Morgan want to invest? HH going to sail. ******** NOTES Quotes: The law is ink placed on parchment by self-serving rich men. All those separate people were a part of my life, strings strung on the frame of Uhtred, and though they were separate they affected one another and together they would make the music of my life I regard almost all quarrels of princes on the same footing, and I see nothing that marks man's unreason so positively as war. Indeed, what folly to kill one another for interests often imaginary, and always for the pleasure of persons who do not think themselves even obliged to those who sacrifice themselves for them! Ulysses commands: You are safe, I'm not angry, I like you, go on my shoulders, hide, stay, follow, find Varick. ((Rose:Einsbaden virginity/withdrawal/hand, Penistone: dream control in study on couch with her hand, Merton: run up to wedding, in bed with her naked about to pleasure each other and she'd been using her mouth on him, woke very hard)) You need to be dangerous. You need to have the capacity to be dangerous only when it is necessary, and that is not the same as being harmless ___ ******** "Emil Niedersachsen. Heir to a small Posen freiarrdom. Missing, presumed dead. AWOL since April '51. Member of the Order. A son and daughter, both legitimate " Breaking that down she is yours and Heinzharold's 3rd great grandmother, Morgan's 2nd great grandmother, and Dietlinde's 5th great grandmother. Also, relationships between us: Morgan- Dietlinde 3rd cousin twice removed Morgan- Heinzharold Senior 3rd cousin Morgan - Heinzharold 3rd cousin once removed Molly- Sascha 4th cousin Molly- Dietlinde 4th once removed HH- Dietlinde 4th once removed David- Sascha 3rd once removed Adalbrecht- HH senior 2nd once removed The nothing and the potential. The world is a shell. Water, land, then gods. Plants, animals, mythical creatures. Could easily create. Prototype people as hybrids, syrinth. Fae. In the sudlache, the first men. Powerful, could alter fate. Then made Nieblungen work dracheneisen, liaise with first men. Power dilutes. Vodacce gods steal blood of first men, make own people. Odin makes Eisen people, then takes them away from Nieblungen meddling. People in South vodacce. Splitting gods. Infighting, separating. Every god wants people now. Theus still very minor god border vodacce empire. Dream realm. Vodacce magician extremely powerful, desert man preaching kindness, not hoarding. People think he's son of God, he takes advantage of it. Vodacce fiddles with his fate to be believed. People assign Theus to him, make a whole religion from it. Theus not happy, suddenly hearing so many prayers and demands. Resents and rebels, goes east. Using power to make a gap to get into the nothing. Nothing breaking through in Cathay. Drachens and thermomancers. The potential for the Nothing to overcome the world. Theus gone not listening. Does he need help to escape? Is he the bad guy? Schattenmann is a monster of the nothing? Jogmundr too? “My Granny Cait use to tell me that you know an emotional wound has healed if when you talk about it, it no longer hurts. That means the scab has healed and fallen off. But if you start to talk about it, and the wound starts to bleed and ache, it has not healed.” War as excuse to line rich pockets Wilhelm, Merrick, Ehren, Lukas, Leopold, Senner, Tomas, Nikolaus, Christopher, Hans. Adalie, Adelaide, Madchen, Madelena, Sonnenshien, Konstanza, Lorelei, Violet, Sophie, Hannalore, Ursula. Konstanza Violet Inga, Lorelei Primrose Claudia, Madchen Edelweiss Jana. Merrick Morgan. Senner Johannes Them>Innes Them>David/Verity Them>Florrie Them>Edward Edward>Verity Christopher>Verity More to be made He couldn't have kept chasing her forever. If someone disappears, you eventually have to accept that they are gone