Immigrant Inspiration

Confession: I visited Ellis Island today, and it was all I could do not to cry.

Reading:

• Someplace to be Flying, by Charles de Lint

Writing:

• "Ferian Fetlock Cures a Horse"

Revising:

• "Dolly Hobbles"

I had an idea for Dairhenien's Library today. At one point the title character leaves his homeland on a journey with someone whom he regards as an enemy. He has to travel incognito, and do so without revealing his abilities to anyone.

The setting of the series is a fantasy one, but the cultures are on par with what you might find in the late Victorian, early Edwardian era. Social mores are paramount, and man has achieved so much in so little time that there is a feeling that nature can be utterly conquered.

So when Dairhenien is traveling, he would naturally have to pretend to be someone innocuous... why not an immigrant? He'll get a view of the culture he enters from the bottom up and no mistake!

I'll just have to see how that fits in.