Category: Historical fantasy

Gisborne cont’d

February 17, 2011

With that, he turned and walked away

'With that he turned and walked away...'

and the Sister’s hand pulled hard on my sleeve so that I had little choice but to follow. Any disquiet at Guy’s reticence would have to be shelved in the back of my mind as the door in the wall closed behind me. A dulcet quiet drifted over us – bees, birds, water trickling somewhere and silence. Whilst Guy had ensconced me in a number of religious houses, this one felt different. There were similarities to be sure, but the preciously small nature of this place made me feel as if Mary had taken me upon Her palm and lifted me to some place beyond strife. The thought I could become a religieuse floated through my mind once again.

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Gisborne… cont’d

February 5, 2011

‘Ghosts,’ I murmured.

‘Your pardon?’

'Your pardon?'

Guy turned away from surveying the sea to focus on me.  As I observed the state of his hair, his beard and his clothes, I wondered how close to vagabonds we seemed.

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Gisborne . . .

January 22, 2011

I spent time huddled in a corner of the deck, a cloak wrapped round fending off the damp of the ocean.  Guy took his share of the watch in the dark hours. Just he, Davey and a skeleton crew whilst the others yawned, snored and filled the spaces around me with their odour.

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Gisborne…

January 20, 2011

Okay folks, time for some lessons in pronunciation.  I need your help.

How do you pronounce Gisborne?

'Guy's too amused...'

Is it Gisborne as in ‘Borne’?

or

Is it Gisborne as in ‘Gisbn’?

Over to you as Guy’s too amused by it all.

Gisborne (The Sheriff’s Collector)

January 12, 2011

Cousins? He jests, surely. Whatever he had been going to answer, this was not what I had expected to hear.  I thought of Vasey the first time I had met him in Le Mans.

'But he looks nothing like you...'

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