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From: Aboard your Airship, Firmament: In Between Days

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They share a cabin in an antechamber to hers. That is, a cupboard.


Success

The Stooped Chronicler and the Incandescent Maid

Description summary:
Description varies with Firmament level.

FirmamentDescription
50[...] The maid, whose name is Flora, keeps an orderly half of the room. [...] "You are fortunate to have the Duchess' aboard [...]"

The man, David, is a study in contrast [...] "She [...] furnish me material for my great work [...] I hope you don't mean to get in the way."

88[...] "We wanted to thank you [...]"

David shakes his head. "Lord alone knows what we were doing in the empty air. No, don't tell me. I shall imagine better." [...] "I'm beginning to work on my epic again. There's certainly a shortage of dull moments so far..."

200, 240?They are not speaking to the Duchess, having felt themselves denied a holiday [...] David scribbles [...] "I am a poor chronicler, when I have so little to chronicle. [...] But he cannot help himself, [...] captivated by the story of Naples. Even Flora unfolds enough to listen.
370[...] "Returning our mistress to Ghent... I fear she will find it much changed. [...] It will do her good to see that others also have destinies." [...]

David is equally agitated. "[...] I'll be laughed out of Ghent for fabrication. [...] Provenance is everything in Burgundy [...]"

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