A dye-murex snail. Photo by Holger Krisp.
"Beautiful ox-butter oysters, fatty-crawling snails, olive-meltdown clams, prince-fish, milk-eels, sea-bugs, sour-sweet blackberries, bitter baby grapes, cardoon, samphire, and thick blood roots, all dripping briny-fatty-body-acid down his chin..."
The outline for the last part of The Golden Net has been finished for quite a while now, and writing the final text has gone well. So, I've started to upload what I have written!
If you've already read the first two parts, you can start reading the new sections here.
I'll be uploading them as I finish thematic blocks in the story... I hope you enjoy the adventures!
A black pearl. Photo by Brocken Inaglory.
Deep-Deep Divers focuses on different kinds of diving and trading done in the Green Coast. It mainly follows Kefa (a spondylus-diver), Ekil (a hake-fisher and friend of Kefa's), and a little bit of Miro's family (crafters and navigators). The slave-trade (mainly for pearl-divers) and cities that harvest dye-murex have also been introduced.
This section is told in a more naturalistic way, with dialogue and slower-paced scenes. So, even though there are some mytho-poetic sections scattered throughout it, it should feel more "present" than the previous parts of the story.