Blogtober 2022 Day 16 entry
A month had passed since Eila discovered her ship was gone. She and her crew were still offered whatever leisure and indulgences were available, but some of them started to integrate into the daily tasks of island life.
Evening meals were hosted outside, each day’s weather idyllic, dusk held at bay by lighted globes that glowed with wires instead of fire.
The former crew of the Beaumaris now dressed as native islanders, their naval uniforms taken away and forgotten. Eila and Adriana sat together and laughed with the rest of the crowd at Rhys, who narrated a hilarious tale told often at Llanfyllin’s annual Festival of Weylin.
Wynn accepted the island’s robes, but he kept his own hidden in his quarters. The robes enhanced his invisibility spell, which enabled him to blend unseen in the shadows of the night.
He was quizzed about his skills as a magician upon their arrival, but he demonstrated only the magic he possessed at the beginning of his apprenticeship, and Atlantis’s magicians considered him unworthy of their attention.
Wynn had the advantage that this voyage was his first post upon the Beaumaris, so none of his colleagues really knew the extent of his powers. Magicians had become an integral part of life in Llanfyllin, so his shipmates didn’t question his skills.
These skills, however, were considerable, and he kept them hidden so he could walk through the shadows to discover the secrets Atlantis kept from them.
That night, he would find the right door.
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