Aliceβs arrival at Lady Sitaβs castle with Sajida- September 25th, 1886
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Mt. Klandethan, Klandethi Mountain Range
Confederate Province of Klandeth
West of the Imperial Territory of Bamba
Saturday, September 25th, 1886
Confederate Province of Klandeth
West of the Imperial Territory of Bamba
Saturday, September 25th, 1886
The country of Klandeth was full of rolling green hills that grew many oranges. So many in fact that the locals could hardly sell them all as it was, and squeezed and bottled any excess juice into world famous and highly in demand Klandethi orange wine. The people there- and the elvish provincial government that taxed most of the profits and gave the scraps to the peasants they worked to the bone, even long after the end of official human slavery- owed their success and ability to grow such bounties well into December to the volcanic soil beneath the namesake Mt. Klandethan, the tallest in the world. Some people attributed it, though, to the myth of the Mountain Queen.
Once, a thousand years ago, this unusually pale woman had ruled over her darker-skinned subjects, but not in enmity as the elves did; with kindness and healing. Then, when she began demanding their blood to keep her youth, the people rose against her in 1632 and placed a curse on her. It was then said in their pastoral, pantheistic religion that her cursed and angry soul caused volcanic eruptions and her tears on the perpetual storm at the top became the Bamba River that watered their fields and thousands of others.
That was precisely the storm that 18-year-old Sergeant Alice Guthrie of the Caledorian Imperial Army was now struggling to navigate in her tiny recon airship as she carried the barely breathing and broken body of a Surai fisherwoman named Sajida Dhawan who had been living with her Bamban husband, Vivaan, before he went off to become a medic for the Surabamba Rebellion against the Empire. On September 17th, 1886, while at the bottom of the ocean in her much-too-tight Golem armor as part of the Imperial attack on the final rebel stronghold located in the underwater city of Sanctuary Trench, a stray rivet from her rivet gun had brained Vivaan. When she, her girlfriend Abigail, and two male squadmates had gone to deliver the bad news, Alice and Abigail had turned their backs for one second to find their friends raping Sajida and beating her as she struggled. They'd shot the men, but then Abigail panicked and ran, leaving Alice to apply what field medicine she could and take Sajida as far from this place as possible- to another field hospital perhaps.
The storm had other plans, though. Her airship took a rough landing, and Alice only just managed to escape the vehicle with her before the storm blew it away and made its whale oil tanks explode, soaking them both to the bone with cold, ashen rain from the dormant volcano in the meanwhile. But Alice could see...a castle in the distance, and used all her strength to cradle Sajida and keep going.
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