Patricia Taylor
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The children, naïve and energetic as always have finished those lighter chores their parents have assigned to them for the day, ran around the recruitment officers naked laughing and cheering, and then hide behind a wall poking their heads out looking at Antonius and his booths with a widened curious pair of eyes. They know who this big brother is, he is the one who showed up from no where on the seas landing on the beaches two days ago, chased down and killed all those bad people who bullied them and…-
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"However, the Sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on." - The Old Curiosity Shop, by Charles Dickens "Antonius! Antonius! Antonius! Antonius!" Our now the true Stratēgos of Archipelago Antonius De'Ricci parades before the villagers on the last island of Prōtē, which is the nearest Island to Anatolia and Constantinople with two high grounds both elevating to a few decade meters above sea surface, making it an strategically important spot for the…
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Antonius left Anna's tent and had a deep breathe of the fresh night air by the beach. The trial in a distance is still ongoing, with occasional roars and sobbers accompanied by the waving of battle axes signifying another head goes rolling on the ground. Seems like Anjelo and Abdullah will have a tough time tonight. He looks at the stage and went wandering about that old man Anjelo, whether his body can persist him to do this kind of physically demanding stuff. A smirk appeared on his face as he looked…
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Antonius got a little bit of mental shock after handling three trials which all ended in the final punishment of beheading. Overwhelmed by the pouring in of never ending stories and statements of ridiculous monstrous cruelty by these land lords, his mind is some what traumatised imaging all of those things in his head so far until he felt like vomiting. Yes, even for a young man who went through countless blood sheds, rogue waves and political intrigues, these stories are still a little bit too much for…
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"You bastard! Return me my son!" The woman sunk her claw like finger nails deep into the meat of the man kneeling down making him yowling out loud, but he can neither roll away nor stand up as he is pinned to the ground with his hands tied up behind his back making him experience probably the worst level of pain that he has ever experienced in entire life. The guards standing by the stage quickly stopped the lady from continuing her attack, and it took three men to pull the lady back from the…
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"Law is order, and good law is good order." - Aristotle The crowd of people reluctantly followed their new lord and his pirate looking soldiers out of the chantry, through the street to the beach at the other end, where there stands a wooden make shift stage laid by four smaller boats, and another group of people awaiting them with their hands being tied by ropes kneeling towards the sea, guarded by soldiers holding their glittering cutlasses under the afternoon sun light. This sparked another round of…
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"There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert A Heinlein "We wish that in the future we no longer have the need to pay that absurdly high amount of taxes and tributes." "I approve your wish." To their surprise the good lord did not hesitate or frown a single bit and approved them of this wish that in their mind is definitely impossible. "Listen, good people!" Antonius stood…
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It is a kid. A boy of around thirteen years old of age, broke free of the grip by his mother hugging him afraid he will be taken away and enslaved, ran forward tripped and fell down a few times by the obstacles on the ground, and finally reached before Antonius kneeling down smashing his knees hard on the rocky ground and cried out. "O lord, forgive me for my disrespect, but I no longer want to eat only one meal per day, no longer wants to have only raw fish, couple of grains and leaves as food, I want…
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"A person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light." - Christine de Pizan Antonius prowls through the street constantly having the feeling that he is being watched by people through those holes and openings on the wooden walls. If it is not for the sunny day, cozy Mediterranean wind and chilling beach, Antonius would feel that they are walking on a haunted land. Finally, they saw this old man lying there on mat laid with straw grass under the roof top lifelessly thin to…
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"The riches?" The man took a while and realised what the lord before him means. "In the usual peaceful good old days if the poor in the town cannot feed themselves, the riches from other places would take them as slaves or hard labours in exchange for food and shelter… But…" "But?" The man bit his teeth and continued. "But ever since the times of peace ended, the riches fearing that the Ottomans might come over and sack their wealth, thus most of them ran to the Venetian controlled islands, and…
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