"Father?"

"Yes, Elsa, what is it my dear?" as he turned to his daughter,

"Why do they call it the New world?"

"Well, that is because it is completely untouched by people, its new and clean"

"So therefore Father" she replied " does that mean we make it dirty by going there?" Elsa turned to him upon hearing the book 'Poor Richard's Almanack' closing, which it rarely did in Arnold Devereux's hands. " You are too old for your age, 14 and talking like a 40 year old..." He stopped and looked out of the cabin window, a small slit through which you could see the soft rise and fall of the endless sea " Well that's what I'm there for, keeping this new world clean, my job as governor of Johnstown how ever will not be an easy one, however I will be glad to get there since this whole sea-journey lark is not doing my stomach any favou-" Arnold vomited and so concluded day 31 on the open ocean.

January 5th 1770

The boat moored in Boston, the new buzzing city of America. It was here that the Devereux family were to meet their carriage that would take both them and their luggage to Jamestown. Arnold told John the eldest child, to go find a store that sold tea and bread so they would be prepared for when they arrived at their new home. John was off like a shot soon disappearing into the crowds like Elsa's breath in the cold winter air. " Oi, you scum bag!" a rough unfamiliar accent shouted in her direction as she went to see where the shout came from a man pushed her out of the way and sent her flying as he ran from the guards. They wore redcoats, they were Redcoats, the British Empire's army in it's home away from home which was slowly falling out of their grasp. Elsa's father had been sent to America by the British in order to maintain the peace and help prevent uprising against the British and punish any who did, or at least that's what the papers on his office desk said. Arnold picked his daughter up from the ground whilst inspecting her for injury, he brushed her ash brown hair from her face, " Are you hurt?" he asked, "I think I will live" Elsa replied. As she brushed dirt from he dark green dress she turned to see James holding an assortment f foodstuffs and looking lost in the crowd "John!, over here !" she shouted and John's head flicked round towards her and he began to rush back over. " I got some bread, tea, a bottle of milk, sugar which was only a pence a pound and the kind gentleman gave me some sliced cold meat for free because I was such a good customer."

His father glared at him, on continued "... or I might have let slip that he could be prosecuted for the weighted scales he possessed". Arnold suddenly turned to James spoke in a sterner manner than Elsa had ever heard him speak " I told you to never use- " he suddenly stopped bottled up his emotion and let it out in a long sigh, after a moments pause he finally said " I will speak with you later".

"Are you the family Dever-Deveruks?" "Devereux" Arnold said as he fiddled with his ponytail as he often did when he was frustrated, to the driver of the carriage that had just pulled up in front of them. "Ah!, well I hav' your bags on th' top of th' carryarge all set t'go, so Johnstown was it" there was a moments pause. After her father had understood what the man had said he quickly replied "y-yes, Johnstown please.", "allrigh' that's a five day journey, six if the weathers bad" In his mild distemper Arnold responded with " Well we better get moving quick then". The three Devereuxs piled into the carriage and did not speak for the first 10 miles.

After the first day had past and they had all finished their separate books the two men dropped the barriers and started to talk but only because they knew that the boredom would get to them otherwise. Elsa knew that her brother and father were both as stubborn as mules and would fight to the bitter end to prove that they were right, maybe that was why they were so interested in the law. Arnold Devereux had become a lawyer through his ability to read people and a strange ability to bring out the worst in himself when trying to get his way. Many of his opponents in the courts would say that underneath his veil of kindness there is a cold hearted devil lurking just waiting to come out for any ho oppose him but it was this ability however that won him his cases and his fame. His son James who at the age of 18 was starting to move into the world of law had a knack for reading people like his father but gained a sarcastic streak that gave him charisma with the courts that no one ever knew where he got it from.

As the fifth day started it greeted them with torrential rain that caused them to arrive in Jamestown in the pitch black, only the flacks of rain could be seen from inside the carriage by the drivers light as they made a sudden stop. "Her' we are, Jamestown" Elsa looked out from inside the carriage and could see nothing, ""Are you sure?" Arnold asked, at this point however Elsa needed to get out of the carriage, the cramped space had been suffocating her for five days now. In London she never liked being inside and enjoyed the freedom to walk around the London borough when she became 14 since beforehand she had started climbing trees in the back garden in order to get a better view of the city and fallen out many a time and injured herself. When her father accepted the job in America at first she didn't know what to expect but after her father made it clear that they would be situated out in the forest with the countryside all around, she started to build up an excitement that could not be contained. Therefore when the coach stopped Elsa stepped out into the rain simply to unleash the emotional build up she had held onto for 3 months. Outside her eyes adjusted to the dark and a whole new world was uncovered from the previous vale of darkness. All the years she had spent in noisy crowded London made her used to fully lit days and candlelit nights but Jamestown had no light but that of the stars and the moon that winked down at her and watched over the small new settlement bathing it in a dusty haze as if covering it with a blanket to go to sleep. A wolf. Elsa hurried back to the carriage where she saw her father holding a suitcase and carrying it towards one of the houses and then John turned around and pushed her suitcase into her hands and gestured for he to follow. The town was not large, a single road lead through the town with smaller roads parting off in different directions and houses surrounding the roads. On one side of the road the town was on a raised slope which continued to the peak of a hill which couldn't be seen through the trees, and the other on a small decline towards the river where many of the farms lay over it. Arnold stopped at the outer door and started to fumble around in his pockets trying to get used to his arms and legs moving at the same time after having his legs idle for five days of travelling. Finally he found what he was looking for, the key, and slid it into the lock of the door. A turn. A click. They had started their new life in the NewWorld.