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the world they live on and the very air they use to sustain life. Only the
vague plot and dialog I have attributed to TP's characters in this tale
belongs to me. I freely give my permission for Tamora Pierce to use any or
all of the plot/story/dialog/concept if she so desires in any way she
desires.
Anyone has my permission to use anything from this and my other story in anyway they want. So have at it, expand, add, enhance, just think if you can write a fan fiction based on a story that has a copyright why not a fan fiction based on a fan fiction. So tale spinners, spin on.
Blame all lousy spelling and grammar on the California Education System. Thank the Lord for spell checkers.
Thank you everyone who reviewed, but no one commented on my Crane joke, I modified a joke I found on jokeaday.com and I thought it was funny. So did Tris in spite of the glare.
The Circle Expands
Chapter 8
The Duke sat back in his chair and rubbed his temples.
A team of he Duke's best harrier investigators arrived and were brought up to date.
"Uncle, why don't you return to the Citadel and let the harrier investigators carry on with this after all that's why you have them."
Major L'rain Kunsch the duke's top investigator told the duke, "That is a good idea My Lord, we will continue with this and report what we find. You have other important things that must be done."
"Fine," the Duke stood, "don't give this Dnomyar any trouble unless he is reluctant to give up the information we want."
He held out his had, "Yazmin, my dear, shall we go?"
Major L'rain Kunsch sat at the table and poured herself a cup of tea.
To the group at large she asked, "Can the spells on this jewelry be removed? It would help if the pieces can be handled safely."
"We will take them to Winding Circle to mage council, they will wish to be informed about what has happened and can remove the spells safely."
"Tris, Briar, Daja going with us?"
Briar shook his head, "I have to get back to work at the Citadel."
"Me too," said Daja.
"Winding Circle, you have got to be kidding, stairs, Mila of the Grain, Stairs!" (see appendix for explanation) "I'm tired, I need to lay down." Tris headed for a couch in her office at BOOKS.
Keth stood, "Glaki come with me, you can tell me about your dance lesson." And they left with Evvy.
Sandry was left at the table with Major Kunsch and Captains Ulring and Behazin waiting for the harriers to return with the jeweler Dnomyar.
Soon the sound of footsteps could be heard coming up he spiral staircase. Harriers Mlae and Ustg entered the room accompanied by a very obese man perspiring heavily, as he walked to the table Sandry noted the guild pin on his chest identifying him as a Master Jeweler.
Turning to a table where her harriers were sitting Major Kunsch said, "Exas, come over here and take notes."
Exas, a short slim man of indeterminate age walked over and sat down, from a bag he took ink, parchment and one of the new glass quills the was being sold at STONE-GLASS-METAL and listed on the parchment the date, time and the witnesses to the statement.
Major Kunsch stood, "Master Dnomyar, please be seated."
"Thank you," he said as he dropped heavily into a chair, pulling out a cloth he wiped perspiration from his round face. Peering nearsightedly around the table through thick lenses set in wire frames perched on his broad nose he asked, in a worried voice, "What may I do for you?"
Major Kunsch, pushing the glass jewelry box of in front of him asked, "Do you recognize any of this jewelry?"
Dnomyar started to open the box and Major Kunsch slapped a hand on the top, "Don't touch them, just look through the glass"
"May I touch the box?"
"Yes, just not the contents."
Drying his hands with the cloth, Master Dnomyar removed his eye lenses and tilted the box peering closely at the jewelry through the glass side of the box.
Sandry handed her enlarging lens to him, "Use this."
"Thank You, I recognize several of the rings and earrings, I made them."
"All I recognize were sold in a single sale to one man, he said his master was going to a party and wanted to have gifts for the guests."
"Can you describe him?"
"Well, he was average, about five foot 7 inches (Imperial), around thirty years old, lightly tanned and had soft hands. He rode a good horse and wore green and gold livery."
Sandry and Kunsch looked at each other, "Green and Gold?" asked Sandry.
"Yes My Lady."
"Anything else?"
"He paid in gold and did not haggle over the price."
"Exas, write up that statement neatly and have Master Dnomyar sign it with witnesses, take it to the Coop." Ordered Major Kunsch. "Lady Sandrilene and I are going to Winding Circle."
"Yes, Major."
Sandry walked out onto the balcony overlooking the patio.
She looked down and raised her voice slightly, "Oama, Kwaben will you bring our horses around front, we are going to Winding Circle."
"Yes My Lady," and the two bodyguards headed toward the back door located at the rear of BOOKS.
"Major, do you have horses?"
"Yes, out front."
"Will you bring your team with us, that amount of jewelry is a large temptation for the uninformed."
"You're right, a few extra guards will not hurt."
"Exas, when you're done with that buy Master Dnomyar a cool drink." She tossed a silver crese on the table and told the rest of her team, "Saddle Up, we going to Winding Circle."
Looking at the overweight jeweler she asked, "Are you going to be able to get back to your shop all right?"
"Yes Major, I'll just go a little slower going there than I did coming here and I will be just fine."
"Thank you for your help, you have done Emelan a service today."
She waved her hand and the harrier team thundered down the spiral staircase and out the from door of Circle Four followed by Sandry and Major Kunsch.
Sandry's Guards had Russet and their horses ready to go when they reached the street.
Kunsch put the glass box carefully into a saddlebag on her horse and mounted.
"When we get the spells off this stuff we will take it to every jeweler in Summersea."
Sandry mounted Russet and nodded, "You know what I am afraid you will find don't you?"
Major Kunsch looked at Sandry soberly "Yes, I know."
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A/N OOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEE the suspense thickens, what is the mysterious knowledge that Sandry and Kunsch share that I haven't told you. (snicker, snicker, snicker)
Bet you can't guess that one.
By the way, I accept Snickers as or Planters Peanut Bars bribes.
Order from candydirect.com and have it shipped directly to me.
Appendix Chapter 8 you can skip all this but you will miss important information and Hawkin deep thoughts.
Major L'rain Kunsch - Harrier top investigator. - Lady Lorane - guess who she is named after.
Goddess of the Moon - Briar didn't teach Evvy to read using English characters, don't you know that the Circle of Magic books are written in Imperial. A magic spell bound into the books allows readers to read Imperial.
The following names were generated using a Franklin Language Master Electronic Dictionary and Thesaurus with a built in word jumble game I did not note the un-jumbled word or how many words could be made with the letters. This is not a test.
Mlae - jumbled word
Ustg - jumbled word
Exas- jumbled word
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My final thoughts about the hub clock.
The clock at the hub has to be a mechanical clock with "giant gears turning".
Winding Circle cannot waste the magic energy to run a dumb clock.
To Explain. (Clock and Stairs!)
In Sandry's Book Niko takes the four to the hub and down stairs into a room at the base. He explains that the floor is, dirt mixed with stone, from a rock that fell from the heavens thousands of years earlier and the rock is used to store magic energy that keeps Winding Circle functioning.
I seems that Winding Circle is set in a large crater caused by a falling meteorite. In fact Niko states that without the magic keeping the crater drained Winding Circle would be a lake.
If you check the map of winding circle, in Tris's Book, you will see that the road inside the walls is a spiral. It's clear, to me, that it is winding around the terraced walls of the crater as it descends to the center.
Think of the Arizona Meteor Crater and a road running around a gigantic pit mine.
Also on the map Winding Circle is located very close to the sea. Vast amounts of magic must be used to keep the sea from flooding the crater.
The different levels, of Winding Circle, are probably connected by, an extensive network of, staircases. No wonder Tris hates stairs, to walk from Discipline near the wall on the rim of the crater to the hub, it is downstairs to the hub and upstairs to get back and up a sloping road to the gate from anywhere in Winding Circle.
On the map the scale shows that Winding Circle is approximately half a mile across, if the crater is like the Arizona Meteor Crater, it could be almost half a mile deep. Mila of the Grain and The Green Man, the Stairs!
Anyone has my permission to use anything from this and my other story in anyway they want. So have at it, expand, add, enhance, just think if you can write a fan fiction based on a story that has a copyright why not a fan fiction based on a fan fiction. So tale spinners, spin on.
Blame all lousy spelling and grammar on the California Education System. Thank the Lord for spell checkers.
Thank you everyone who reviewed, but no one commented on my Crane joke, I modified a joke I found on jokeaday.com and I thought it was funny. So did Tris in spite of the glare.
The Circle Expands
Chapter 8
The Duke sat back in his chair and rubbed his temples.
A team of he Duke's best harrier investigators arrived and were brought up to date.
"Uncle, why don't you return to the Citadel and let the harrier investigators carry on with this after all that's why you have them."
Major L'rain Kunsch the duke's top investigator told the duke, "That is a good idea My Lord, we will continue with this and report what we find. You have other important things that must be done."
"Fine," the Duke stood, "don't give this Dnomyar any trouble unless he is reluctant to give up the information we want."
He held out his had, "Yazmin, my dear, shall we go?"
Major L'rain Kunsch sat at the table and poured herself a cup of tea.
To the group at large she asked, "Can the spells on this jewelry be removed? It would help if the pieces can be handled safely."
"We will take them to Winding Circle to mage council, they will wish to be informed about what has happened and can remove the spells safely."
"Tris, Briar, Daja going with us?"
Briar shook his head, "I have to get back to work at the Citadel."
"Me too," said Daja.
"Winding Circle, you have got to be kidding, stairs, Mila of the Grain, Stairs!" (see appendix for explanation) "I'm tired, I need to lay down." Tris headed for a couch in her office at BOOKS.
Keth stood, "Glaki come with me, you can tell me about your dance lesson." And they left with Evvy.
Sandry was left at the table with Major Kunsch and Captains Ulring and Behazin waiting for the harriers to return with the jeweler Dnomyar.
Soon the sound of footsteps could be heard coming up he spiral staircase. Harriers Mlae and Ustg entered the room accompanied by a very obese man perspiring heavily, as he walked to the table Sandry noted the guild pin on his chest identifying him as a Master Jeweler.
Turning to a table where her harriers were sitting Major Kunsch said, "Exas, come over here and take notes."
Exas, a short slim man of indeterminate age walked over and sat down, from a bag he took ink, parchment and one of the new glass quills the was being sold at STONE-GLASS-METAL and listed on the parchment the date, time and the witnesses to the statement.
Major Kunsch stood, "Master Dnomyar, please be seated."
"Thank you," he said as he dropped heavily into a chair, pulling out a cloth he wiped perspiration from his round face. Peering nearsightedly around the table through thick lenses set in wire frames perched on his broad nose he asked, in a worried voice, "What may I do for you?"
Major Kunsch, pushing the glass jewelry box of in front of him asked, "Do you recognize any of this jewelry?"
Dnomyar started to open the box and Major Kunsch slapped a hand on the top, "Don't touch them, just look through the glass"
"May I touch the box?"
"Yes, just not the contents."
Drying his hands with the cloth, Master Dnomyar removed his eye lenses and tilted the box peering closely at the jewelry through the glass side of the box.
Sandry handed her enlarging lens to him, "Use this."
"Thank You, I recognize several of the rings and earrings, I made them."
"All I recognize were sold in a single sale to one man, he said his master was going to a party and wanted to have gifts for the guests."
"Can you describe him?"
"Well, he was average, about five foot 7 inches (Imperial), around thirty years old, lightly tanned and had soft hands. He rode a good horse and wore green and gold livery."
Sandry and Kunsch looked at each other, "Green and Gold?" asked Sandry.
"Yes My Lady."
"Anything else?"
"He paid in gold and did not haggle over the price."
"Exas, write up that statement neatly and have Master Dnomyar sign it with witnesses, take it to the Coop." Ordered Major Kunsch. "Lady Sandrilene and I are going to Winding Circle."
"Yes, Major."
Sandry walked out onto the balcony overlooking the patio.
She looked down and raised her voice slightly, "Oama, Kwaben will you bring our horses around front, we are going to Winding Circle."
"Yes My Lady," and the two bodyguards headed toward the back door located at the rear of BOOKS.
"Major, do you have horses?"
"Yes, out front."
"Will you bring your team with us, that amount of jewelry is a large temptation for the uninformed."
"You're right, a few extra guards will not hurt."
"Exas, when you're done with that buy Master Dnomyar a cool drink." She tossed a silver crese on the table and told the rest of her team, "Saddle Up, we going to Winding Circle."
Looking at the overweight jeweler she asked, "Are you going to be able to get back to your shop all right?"
"Yes Major, I'll just go a little slower going there than I did coming here and I will be just fine."
"Thank you for your help, you have done Emelan a service today."
She waved her hand and the harrier team thundered down the spiral staircase and out the from door of Circle Four followed by Sandry and Major Kunsch.
Sandry's Guards had Russet and their horses ready to go when they reached the street.
Kunsch put the glass box carefully into a saddlebag on her horse and mounted.
"When we get the spells off this stuff we will take it to every jeweler in Summersea."
Sandry mounted Russet and nodded, "You know what I am afraid you will find don't you?"
Major Kunsch looked at Sandry soberly "Yes, I know."
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A/N OOOOOOOWEEEEEEEEEEE the suspense thickens, what is the mysterious knowledge that Sandry and Kunsch share that I haven't told you. (snicker, snicker, snicker)
Bet you can't guess that one.
By the way, I accept Snickers as or Planters Peanut Bars bribes.
Order from candydirect.com and have it shipped directly to me.
Appendix Chapter 8 you can skip all this but you will miss important information and Hawkin deep thoughts.
Major L'rain Kunsch - Harrier top investigator. - Lady Lorane - guess who she is named after.
Goddess of the Moon - Briar didn't teach Evvy to read using English characters, don't you know that the Circle of Magic books are written in Imperial. A magic spell bound into the books allows readers to read Imperial.
The following names were generated using a Franklin Language Master Electronic Dictionary and Thesaurus with a built in word jumble game I did not note the un-jumbled word or how many words could be made with the letters. This is not a test.
Mlae - jumbled word
Ustg - jumbled word
Exas- jumbled word
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
My final thoughts about the hub clock.
The clock at the hub has to be a mechanical clock with "giant gears turning".
Winding Circle cannot waste the magic energy to run a dumb clock.
To Explain. (Clock and Stairs!)
In Sandry's Book Niko takes the four to the hub and down stairs into a room at the base. He explains that the floor is, dirt mixed with stone, from a rock that fell from the heavens thousands of years earlier and the rock is used to store magic energy that keeps Winding Circle functioning.
I seems that Winding Circle is set in a large crater caused by a falling meteorite. In fact Niko states that without the magic keeping the crater drained Winding Circle would be a lake.
If you check the map of winding circle, in Tris's Book, you will see that the road inside the walls is a spiral. It's clear, to me, that it is winding around the terraced walls of the crater as it descends to the center.
Think of the Arizona Meteor Crater and a road running around a gigantic pit mine.
Also on the map Winding Circle is located very close to the sea. Vast amounts of magic must be used to keep the sea from flooding the crater.
The different levels, of Winding Circle, are probably connected by, an extensive network of, staircases. No wonder Tris hates stairs, to walk from Discipline near the wall on the rim of the crater to the hub, it is downstairs to the hub and upstairs to get back and up a sloping road to the gate from anywhere in Winding Circle.
On the map the scale shows that Winding Circle is approximately half a mile across, if the crater is like the Arizona Meteor Crater, it could be almost half a mile deep. Mila of the Grain and The Green Man, the Stairs!