The rain pattered unceasingly on the carriage roof as Catherine read her book, ignoring the gentle bumping of the road.
But she yelped in alarm as the coach lurched suddenly, a horrendous banging and scraping of metal coming from beneath her.
“-the fuck!? Whoah, hold there!” her driver yelled, and the coach soon stopped pitching about like a boat in a tempest. Horses snorted an
Introduction by Storm
By: Blind_Ace
Favorited: 11 months ago
Mount Koto-o-noke,
they call it. A towering volcano, the tallest of any on the ring of
islands. The time of its last proper eruption is mythological, but
the magma still flows beneath it, heating the water beneath the earth
and turning the various depressions that sink low enough to reach the
water table into natural spa baths. One would think that there would
be tourists-- at least, more of them. But the mountain is mostly
untouched by human habitation. Outside of the chirping of birds and
the
Boiled Egg (F/F UB)
By: Bitter
Favorited: 9 years ago