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pghbabesonbikes · 1 year

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FBX Results

The tenth anniversary Frigid Bitch was a celebration of a decade’s worth of toughing out any shit the world had handy to throw your way, grabbing your bike and slogging through the elements with whatever ragtag badass crew you managed to scrape together. Vet racers worth their salt noticed that the checkpoints on their home-printed manifests were labeled by year instead of the classic cheesy conundrum codes. What could it possibly mean???

The start being remote, cyclists all over the city strategized their initial locations and prepared their maps, gear, & breakfast buffets. Clogging up cafe floors, squeezing into friends’ conveniently located apartments, or heading to the highest place they thought in likely proximity to a checkpoint; email inboxes were repeatedly refreshed as they waited for the location drop.

Then bam, there they were - in chronological order, the 9 best checkpoints from previous years’ races starting with the heart of the city and cycling down through social hubs, cliffside staircase intersections, riverside punk spots, aggressive cobbles, off road hike-your-bike sites, and of course: big ass hills. The tenth checkpoint was this year’s addition, the crown on the brow of FBX: The House of Raging Women.

The Point

The heart of the city that everyone knows, the only location to have already been used twice before including in the first Frigid Bitch frozen fountain race.

photos by Alex Diese

OTB

Longtime sponsor of the race and the original South Side cyclist social hub, home of the unforgettable Go Red Gold Sprints; the volunteers at OTB set up a Trek mechanic station stocked with all the typical tools of the trade.

photos by Murphy Moschetta

Romeo

One of the best/worst checkpoints of all time, anyone following the hand drawn manifest map found themselves riding down a deserted-lookin dead end street, discovering a set of steps apparently running through resident’s backyards and flowing into a massive staircase culminating in a full-on street-signed intersection in the middle of the urban wooded cliffside and then back up the adjacent staircase to find a host of members of Yinz Run Club cheering and slinging snacks & shots. Anyone clever enough to approach from the other side had to run or ride down and up one of Pittsburgh’s infinite steep cobbled hillsides.

photos by Matt Desmond

Rialto

The best known urban Dirty Dozen hill, clocking in at about a 20% grade average but hitting over 30% in spots. The narrow near-one-lane road shoots straight up into Troy Hill from Route 28. A brand new set up steps was a life saver for the racers not brave enough to attempt the ride up, while others resolutely blocked astounded drivers stuck behind them. Bike Pgh staff met them at the top with a hard cider reward.

photos by Monica Garrison

The Button v2

The last time the actual Button down the train tracks from 43rd street was a checkpoint for the Frigid Bitch, race day had it completely submerged by the icy floodwaters of that winter’s thaw. This year the stop migrated slightly west and featured a mechanic and ride-your-own-margarita station sponsored by SweetWater Bikes in front of a steep gravel descent onto rocky Allegheny Riverbed that only one cyclist dared ride down. A few others bypassed the gravel entirely by scaling the weedy cliff behind the margarita machine. Volunteers waited under the glorious looming presence of the 40th St Bridge, smoke-set with tiki torches and watching to make sure no roadie-shoe-shod babes slipped into the river.

photos by Ben Filio & Joel Levine

Grandview Overlook

The classic photo spot of the city, it is, of course, up a big ass hill.

photos by Himanshu Dedge

The Schenley Lake

Train tracks criss cross all over this town, and racers had to cut through another set in Schenley Park to get to Panther Hollow Lake. Volunteers at this checkpoint made all the early arrivees throw down their bikes and wait til go time before cowbelling them off in a run for their manifest stamps. Many ran, some jogged, a few sauntered, and one was heard to say “I’m not running just because some dude told me to.” Rock on.

photos by Evan Burlew

Melwood Steps

Oh hello, it’s another set of steps. Carrying your bike is a skill, they say. A couple racers self-penalized their time on this one by blasting down the Herron Ave S-bends without catching the turn to the Melwood Staircase just across the street from the RockRoom.

photos by Scott Kowalski

Climax St

Probably the best checkpoint of all time, back again from last year for double the fun. This time the overgrown sidewalks directed riders straight up to a crew of Venture Outdoors volunteers stationed at the apex of the small but mighty cobbled bump in our South Hills.

photos by Valerie Beichner

The House of Raging Women

The premier checkpoint of FBX! The HORW was never before used as a Frigid Bitch checkpoint but was once included in the first alleycat we ever hosted: the infamous Ladies’ Night race. Transformed to a surreal and dada-like celebration of the Frigid Bitch director, Bananna-LenaVille could only be found by the semi-secret back-alley entrance behind a flush of rowhouses under the shadow of Children’s Hospital. One group of riders spent precious clock time sniffing around up and down the hill block on 44th before the local post man hollered “Yinz looking for a party??? It’s in the alley!!”

photos by Keith Watson

The Finish

Back at the Wheel Mill a rush of racers threw their bikes on the ground and their bodies up the stairs to find the race official and fling their manifests into her hands. They celebrated, they chowed down on Revival Chili, they gabbed, changed clothes, grabbed a Necromancer Brew, and hunkered down to wait for the results. When the darling FBX MC picked up the microphone though, it was to announce something else first....

The Pittsburgh Babes on Bikes Racing Team Debut

There’s a brand new team in Pittsburgh and it’s pulled from the crew of women and under-represented gender identity cyclists that make up the massive pool of Frigid Bitch bad-asses. Powerhouse hitters in the cycling scene, the team is ready to rejuvenate racing in Pittsburgh and beyond. These babes are here, some of them are queer, and they’re out to have a damn good time racing bikes and taking you with them.

from left to right: Anna-Lena Kempen, Bonnie Gilbery, Laura Davidson-Brienza, Sara Khalil, Sawyer Sidelinger, and Shequaya Bailey.

The FBX Podium

If the debut of a brand sparkling new team of killers wasn’t enough, FBX was ready to pull out the celebratory stops with the first podium announcement. ALK took over the mic to haul up the best, the brightest, the bitchiest - the longest running Frigid Bitch contenders of all time.

In first place, with ten years under her belt, having booked a back-up airplane ticket just to make sure she had a way to get to the race:

1 - Ngani Ndimbie

In second place, having missed only the first frozen fountain Frigid Bitch, here cuz she cut short a California vacation with her wife:

2 - Katharine Jordan

In third place, holding an 8 race record starting with the 2015 Frigid Bitch that only *6* people raced, the gorgeous MC:

3 - Alexandra Korshin

Honorable mention going to the 8-race record holders starting in 2016:

- Two-time tandem contestant Lauryn Stalter

- Masters category killer Frankie Montenegro

- Uncontested holder of the 9-month pregnant record and half of the banana tandem Alyssa Crawford.

And finally, the moment the crowds were waiting for: the official announcement of the category podiums and results.

Masters 60+

1 - Laurie Plummer 2 - Lynda Stucky 3 - Cheryl Ritts

Masters 40+

1 - Hazel Shockey 2 - Jen Damon 3 - Melissa Celani 4 - Suz Falvey 5 - Courtney Ehrlichman

Single Speed/Fixed Gear

1 - Sky K 2 - Stevie Gallo 3 - Lavender Sedlock

Out of Town

1 - Kirsten Hoogenakker 2 - Adelaide Kelly 3 - Betsy Lewis

Mountain Bike

1 - Natalie Boehm 2 - Jodi Rafalko 3 - Betsy Lewis

Tandem

1 - Sol Moure & Lauryn Stalter 2 - Alyssa Crawford & Mo Riddle 3 - Ru Emmons & Tahel Axel

Open

1 - Acadia Klain 2 - Paige Anderson 3 - Bonnie Gilbery 4 - Eva Kloiber 5 - Hazel Shockey

check out the full rankings at Road Results

THANK YOU to everyone who came out to race, to all the volunteers that are dead set on making sure the annual stoke level chart runs exponential, thank you to the Wheel Mill for being such incredibly gracious and helpful hosts and to Necromancer Brewing for once again slinging our signature can, to Jarrod from Hope Cyclery for running the sag vehicle, to all of the photographers for immortalizing the race in 2 dimensions, and Brad Q for the portaits I can’t show yinz yet, kudos to Courtney E who smashed her bike into a car and broke it but finished anyway, and to Caitlin L who flew in FROM ALASKA and borrowed a bike from a stranger, to Judy D who was that stranger and also competitively raced in a BOOT, to Beth L and Deanna G who met at Frigid Bitch 9 and celebrated their anniversary by winning the SweetWater Bikes’ E-Bike, to SweetWater Bikes for donating an e-bike to raffle!, to Kiki who come in fron Minnesota, the Baltimore Bicycle Works team and all the other out-of-towners, to Christine Y who accidentally took a crew of those out-of-towners up Logan St instead of Rialto, to Two Frays Brewing for hosting all the winter training rides, THANK YOU to all of the sponsors who stack the prize table for us every year and HELL YES TO THE NEW TEAM! We can’t wait to race with you!

see you next year

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akiiyamaniran · 1 year

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15 ASSOCIATIONS.

ANIMAL: scorpion. panther.

COLOR(S): orange. black.

MONTH: November.

SONG: Spillways by Ghost.

NUMBER: 1.

DAY OR NIGHT: midnight.

PLANT: daffodil.

SMELL: fruit - flavored vape juice. greasy foodstuffs. sugary soda. turf. new sneakers.

STONE: hematite.

SEASON: fall.

PLACE: the alleys behind half - ruined city buildings. empty tracks illuminated by flickering lights that are best run on alone at night.

FOOD: cheap fast food. fresh French fries.

ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Scorpio.

ELEMENT(S): water. the sort that trickles down from rain and gives the city life.

DRINK: convenience store slushies. drinks from soda fountains at burger joints.

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colloquium-journal · 1 year

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Downton FM trip

uncommon friends Edison, Ford, and Firestone important industrialists that vacationed in the area.(#16)

U.S. colored troop statue (#24)

Panthers statue (#1) extremely endangered species in Florida. Very important to local ecosystem

Water treatment (#23) water leads to kalosahatchee river. Fertilizer run off has contributed massively to red tide in our local area.

Firestone use to be ice packaging center for incoming ships. Now turned into a bar. (#19)

White building with pier painting use to be historic, now economic.(#19)

Chamber of commerce

3 continents of trees in journal name them and where they are from. (#7)

Sidney and Berne Davis art center which use to be a post office (#8). Building was basically built using a whole Coral reef.

Library stopped for water/bathroom

Use to be called Mother Earth. Now renevated to new shop (#10)

Hallway picture is an arcade theater that has been turned into ice cream shop and food.

Small lion head water fountain (#5)

Random old looking building with gate use to be something else but all buildings get renovated keeping sustainability as important as possible.

Eagle carved out of a tree is a great display of sustainability. Instead of completely getting rid of the tree, they turned it into an attraction. (#4)

100 year celebration with a plaque and historic tree (#2)

Mural of native Americans with billy bowlegs in a feather hat as the chief (#14)

Other than the Florida heat I loved this field trip. I do not go to Downtown FM very often so it was very interesting to learn more about the history. I had no idea Edison, Ford, and Firestone all lived in the area at one time. I also loved learning of all the buildings that got renovated instead of torn down. It is great to see the sustainability of a city in full effect. It also preserves the history of this iconic area. The mural of Billy Bowlegs blew my mind also. You can tell how much time was put into it with every single tiny square making up a beautiful mural.

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What are the best tourist attractions to check out in Palm Beach Gardens FL?

When it comes to fun family activities, Palm Beach Gardens FL has a lot to offer. This stunning city offers over 133 totally free and low-cost things to do. In fact, there is something for everybody. With many parks, museums, and activities to explore, there's no factor to stay at home. Here are some things to do in Palm Beach Gardens FL that will leave you with a smile on your face. And if you're trying to find a place to go shopping without breaking the bank, you've come to the best location.

The Gardens Mall The Gardens Mall is a two-story enclosed shopping mall located in Palm Beach Garden, Florida. The mall features nationwide sellers such as Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue, Nordstrom, and Bloomingdale's, and more than 160 restaurants and specialty shops. While you're at the shopping mall, make certain to go to The Gardens Food Court, which serves both local and local food. While you're there, be sure to go to a few of the stores on the shopping mall's upper level.

The Gardens Mall in Palm Beach Garden FL is one of the last staying Sears shops in the state. The shopping center is 1.4 million square feet and has more than 150 boutique, consisting of Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, and Macy's. The shopping mall lies one mile east of I-95 on PGA Boulevard. Whether you want to look for electronics, clothes, or precious jewelry, you'll find the best place at The Gardens Mall.

The shopping center opened its doors on April 30, 1988. The day before the grand opening, 112 of its 140 stores were open. WPTV's Laurel Sauer reports on the first-day rush at the shopping mall. At the time, 112 of the shopping center's 140 stores were open, however that didn't mean consumers didn't have a fun time. When Laurel Sauer went to The Gardens Mall, she found a panther named Taboo, a mascot for the shopping center.

The Gardens Mall is located on PGA Boulevard and SR 811. In 2005, the Florida Department of Transportation finished an interchange at PGA Boulevard and SR 811, which enabled simple access to I-95. In 2007, the shopping mall's Fountain in the Center Court went through a remodeling. H&M opened in 2010 and closed in 2021. Its new junior anchor, Macy's, opened Macy's Backstage in April 2019, and Gardens Optical took control of a previous Sears location.

The Gardens GreenMarket The Gardens GreenMarket in Palm Beach, FL is a yearly event that promotes local agriculture. The marketplace includes 120 local vendors selling locally grown produce, cheeses, breads, sauces, jams, plants, flowers, and prepared food. Visitors can acquire locally grown and prepared foods and delight in live music and other entertainment. Visitors are also welcome to bring their pet dogs to the market, which is dog-friendly. Here are some things to do while you're in Palm Beach Gardens:

On Sundays, the Gardens GreenMarket is held at Clematis Park and features over 120 suppliers. The Garden 2 Go market focuses on fresh fruit and vegetables and food products such as breads, veggies, honey, meat, and seafood. During the summer season, the market is moved undercover. The marketplace is held rain or shine. Pets are permitted and you are motivated to bring them! A good idea to bring your canine to the Gardens GreenMarket: it's dog-friendly, too!

Live music plays every Sunday at the Pavilion. Live musicians perform in a gazebo. Visitors can also enjoy the Gardens Art highlights. Each week, there are various events to attend. If you love music and delight in live entertainment, this is the place for you. You can also buy some fresh produce from the farmers market at fantastic prices. There's something for everybody at the Gardens GreenMarket in Palm Beach Gardens FL. You'll absolutely have a fun time here.

The Downtown Carousel When you check out the Palm Beach Gardens area, you can't assist however visit The Downtown Carousel. A family favorite for several years, the carousel is a wonderful attraction that showcases the tropical atmosphere of the area. In addition to horses, the carousel includes 27 unique animals, including alligators, pelicans, dolphins, and more! With flights for all ages, the Downtown Carousel in Palm Beach Gardens FL is sure to delight the entire family.

There is no factor to miss this Palm Beach Gardens destination, which has been a popular destination for over 50 years. It is located in Downtown Park, which is adjacent to The Cheesecake Factory. It is a favorite location for events and visitors alike, and it boasts a 32-foot-wide carousel and 27 handmade wooden animals from the Carousel Works, the world's largest wooden carousel manufacturer.

The Downtown Carousel in Palm Beach Garden FL is going through significant restorations to make it more kid-friendly. It initially started revolving in November 2010, and now it will undergo a complete overhaul. Work crews will take it apart in 2020, and reassemble it in a new place near the Cheesecake Factory. The brand-new ownership wants to develop a "destination setting" that will make the carousel much more appealing.

Frenchman's Forest Natural Area Discover the beauty of the secured forest at Frenchman's Forest Natural Area in Palm Garden, FL. This 158-acre park is home to hair overload, scrubby flatwoods, and hydric hammock tidal overload. You can also enjoy the boardwalk that goes through the location. The park's boardwalk is a fantastic method to experience the diverse nature of the location.

This park is comprised of 4 tracks that can be walked the 172-acre protect. You can anticipate to see uncommon species of trees, birds, and other wildlife while exploring this park. You can likewise stop at a covered observation platform that has benches. A beautiful view of the lake is offered from this platform. You can see the fish and softshell turtles swimming in the water. The Frenchman's Forest Natural Area is located simply northwest of Palm Beach Gardens, FL.

The Frenchman's Forest Natural Area is divided into two sections, among which is preserved as an open picnic location and treking trail. The other section belongs to a nature conservancy. This park becomes part of the Lake Lanier watershed and is handled by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Department. For additional information about Frenchman's Forest, visit its site. You'll discover information on nature conservation, wildlife, and birding at Frenchman's Forest Natural Area in Palm Beach Gardens FL.

Downtown At The Gardens When it pertains to shopping malls, Downtown at The Garden in Palm Beach Gardens FL is a must-visit location. With over 50 shops, a Cobb 16 Theater, Whole Foods, Yard House, Cheesecake Factory, and other shops, this center uses unlimited opportunities for connection and motivation. While you're there, make certain to take a look at the events and entertainment occurring in Downtown at The Gardens.

The retail scene in Palm Beach Gardens is second to none. The Gardens Mall provides top-notch outlet store and runway-ready designer labels. Downtown at The Gardens has more than 50 stores, restaurants, and even a theater. Close-by PGA Commons, Legacy Place, and Mainstreet at Midtown also provide adequate shopping. Whether you're in the state of mind for some shopping or just need a little something for your next supper celebration, Downtown at The Gardens has everything.

It can be tough to keep your house clean, specifically when you do not have the time to do so. There are lots of factors to consider when hiring a house cleaning service in Palm Beach County. The size of your house, the variety of bathrooms, and other aspects will figure out the price. Larger homes require more cleaning time, so the cost will increase appropriately.

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bonny-kookoo · 2 years

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OT7: Felidae (Jungkook/Jimin) 7

In which Jungkook takes you out for adventures, where you meet a hybrid that's the prime example of big cat- bigger ego.

Tags/Warnings: Panther!Jungkook, Cat!Reader, Snow Leopard!Jimin, human!Namjoon, jungkook protecc, jimin is kind of an ass, insecurities, slight angst

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Jungkook sits close to you at a large water fountain; cups of ice cream in your hands, different topings and flavors as you watch the bustling city life.

You feel pretty safe oddly enough- with jungkook next to you, there's no need to worry much these days. Your collar around your neck jingles a little every now and then with specific movements; the little bell on it an accessory you've chosen yourself, deeming it cute-and both namjoon and jungkook had agreed with smiles.

Now you wear it proudly; silver metal plate with Namjoons personal data and your official registration number stamped into it forever, just like jungkooks.

You see a social worker walk around with a hybrid wearing a distinctive collar; white and grey with a red symbol on it- typical for HC, or hybrid Care. You've worn one like that for years as well, so it's easy to spot it. The hybrid walks up to the fountain where you and Jungkook sit, nose high and arms crossed before he sits down next to you;

Right onto your tail.

You yelp, pulling it out from underneath his thigh in shock, whimpering as Jungkook immediately jumps up and checks with you for any damage. The part throbs angrily, pain dull but very much present as you blink away the tears. "Jimin!" The care worker scolds. "Apologize at least-" He starts, but you toss your coins in before he can go further.

"Its fine! It's- it's my fault, i should've been more careful-" you start, as the hybrid next to you- Jimin- scoffs, looking you up and down before he clicks his tongue, icy stare mustering you, making you feel incredibly small.

"Its not like I was going to apologize, Cat." He says, and Jungkook behind you growls lowly, tail swishing in irritation.

"I'm sorry, he's having a hard time adapting." The worker apologizes with a bow, and you're about to wave him off when Jungkooks dark voice rings out.

"Doesn't excuse his behavior at all. Come on kitten, let's go home so we can check your tail okay?" His voice does a 180 from one sentence to the other; addressing you way softer than the other big cat.

You're used to this though.

"Well keep your pet closer then, pretty boy." Jimin challenges with a hiss under his breath. "Not like I meant to sit on her sorry excuse of a tail anyways." He says, brushing the strands of fur you'd lost in your little accident off his jeans in distaste. You can clearly see a glint of something in his eyes however, maybe even a bit of worry when he sees the way the babypink bandage darkens at one spot, a clear indication that there's probably been at least a little damage to the still fresh stitches underneath. "Stupid cat." He mumbles however, looking into the other direction while the care worker seems at loss what do to.

"Take that back-!" Jungkook instantly starts, but you push against his chest, looking up at him with big eyes instead.

"Lets just go home kookie." You say, and jungkook glares at Jimin- but takes your hand and leads you home instead.

Back there, namjoon carefully re-wraps everything after cleaning the small amount of blood off and checking for any other things to note. And the entire endeavor is almost completely forgotten when you all sit at the dinner table later that day, happily eating and chatting about random things.

Like a small family- Namjoon, Jungkook, and now: even you.

#bts imagine #bts fanfic #bts fic #jungkook imagine #jimin imagine #hybrid imagine #hybrid jungkook #hybrid jimin #hybrid reader #felidae au

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semisectionalsofa · 4 years

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Pokemon Region Based on Florida ....Think About It....

You start up north on the map in your vaguely southern hometown. There’s a rusted pickup truck parked outside your neighbor’s home.

Then you visit the professor (who looks like he used to be in a pop punk band) in a small university town based on Gainesville.

Cities/Gyms based on

West Palm Beach - very preppy town where everyone wears pastels with a clothing store to match. Gym leader is a middle-aged woman with coiffed blonde hair wearing Lily Pulitzer like print who specializes in flowery Grass Types.

Key West - Island town where everyone seems to have a shady past, but are actually generally amiable. Older Pirate/Jimmy Buffet-esque gym leader specializing in Water Types

St. Augustine - Mysterious fountain in the middle of it. Fire type gym based on Castillo de San Marcos.

Orlando - Major city with a Fairy Type Pokemon Theme Park. Gym is fairy, and the trainers are dressed like actual Fairy Type Pokemon (no furry). There’s a route nearby that’s an artificial snow mountain meant to attract tourists.

Southwest Florida - Beach town where almost everyone is old as hell. Ghost Type gym.

Little Havana/Miami - City with trading port. Fighting-type gym. New Rooster-based Pokémon roam the street. Gym leader says (I’m sorry) “say hello to my little friends.”

Wynwood/Miami - Town decorated in streetart murals and with art galleries. Psychic or Dark-themed gym.

Tampa - This isn’t calling out anything to me, but I guess you gotta do it. You get to take a route based on the Sunshine Skyway to it, so that’s fun!

South Beach/Miami - Final city with league championship. During the day it’s a pastel Art Deco dream. Then at night it’s light up in neon.

Everglades - The new Wild Area with a lot more swamp.

Plot involves uncovering a corrupt official who wants to drain the Everglades/Wild Area for development putting the habitat of many unique Pokémon at risk.

New Pokémon based on:

- Flamingos

- Dolphins

- Manatees

- Florida Panthers

- Oranges (like imagine a little orange Oddish-like guy who evolves into an orange blossom tree?)

- Give us a new Shark Pokémon, c’mon!

- Grouper

- Roseate Spoonbill

- Heliconias

- Possums

- Armadillos

- Shrimp

- Marlins, Tarpons and/or Swordfish. (Wait... legendary trio?)

- Hogfish

- Parrot Fish

- Conch

- Bobcat

- Half snake/half alligator (if you know, you know).

- Swamp Ape!

- Butterfly-based bug Eevee evoltion!

- New Pikachu rip-off is grass/water swamprat.

- And, you’re gonna hate it, two new bug species based on mosquitoes and roaches that are annoying as hell!

#Florida #Pokémon #fakemon

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To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; Wine, privilege of the completely free; Wine the recorder; wine the sagely strong; Wine, bright avenger of sly-dealing wrong, Awake, Ausonian Muse, and sing the vineyard song!

Sing how the Charioteer from Asia came, And on his front the little dancing flame Which marked the God-head. Sing the Panther-team, The gilded Thrysus twirling, and the gleam Of cymbals through the darkness. Sing the drums. He comes; the young renewer of Hellas comes! The Seas await him. Those Aegean Seas Roll from the dawning, ponderous, ill at ease, In lifts of lead, whose cresting hardly breaks To ghostly foam, when suddenly there awakes A mountain glory inland. All the skies Are luminous; and amid the sea bird cries The mariner hears a morning breeze arise. Then goes the Pageant forward. The sea-way Silvers the feet of that august array Trailing above the waters, through the airs; And as they pass a wind before them bears The quickening word, the influence magical. The Islands have received it, marble-tall; The long shores of the mainland. Something fills The warm Euboean combes, the sacred hills Of Aulis and of Argos. Still they move Touching the City walls, the Temple grove, Till, far upon the horizon-glint, a gleam Of light, of trembling light, revealed they seem Turned to a cloud, but to a cloud that shines, And everywhere as they pass, the Vines! The Vines! The Vines, the conquering Vines! And the Vine breaths Her savour through the upland, empty heaths Of treeless wastes; the Vines have come to where The dark Pelasgian steep defends the lair Of the wolf's hiding; to the empty fields By Aufidus, the dry campaign that yields No harvest for the husbandman, but now Shall bear a nobler foison than the plough; To where, festooned along the tall elm trees, Tendrils are mirrored in Tyrrhenian seas; To where the South awaits them; even to where Stark, African informed of burning air, Upturned to Heaven the broad Hipponian plain Extends luxurious and invites the main. Guelma's a mother: barren Thaspsa breeds; And northward in the valleys, next the meads That sleep by misty river banks, the Vines Have struck to spread below the solemn pines. The Vines are on the roof-trees. All the Shrines And Homes of men are consecrate with Vines.

And now the task of that triumphant day Has reached to victory. In the reddening ray With all his train, from hard Iberian lands Fulfilled, apparent, that Creator stands Halted on Atlas. Far Beneath him, far, The strength of Ocean darkening and the star Beyond all shores. There is a silence made. It glorifies: and the gigantic shade Of Hercules adores him from the West. Dead Lucre: burnt Ambition: Wine is best.

But what are these that from the outer murk Of dense mephitic vapours creeping lurk To breathe foul airs from that corrupted well Which oozes slime along the floor of Hell? These are the stricken palsied brood of sin In whose vile veins, poor, poisonous and thin, Decoctions of embittered hatreds crawl: These are the Water-Drinkers, cursed all! On what gin-sodden Hags, what flaccid sires Bred these White Slugs from what exhaust desires? In what close prison's horror were their wiles Watched by what tyrant power with evil smiles; Or in what caverns, blocked from grace and air Received they, then, the mandates of despair? What! Must our race, our tragic race, that roam All exiled from our first, and final, home: That in one moment of temptation lost Our heritage, and now wander, hunger-tost Beyond the Gates (still speaking with our eyes For ever of remembered Paradise), Must we with every gift accepted, still, With every joy, receive attendant ill? Must some lewd evil follow all our good And muttering dog our brief beatitude?

A primal doom, inexorable, wise, Permitted, ordered, even these to rise. Even in the shadow of so bright a Lord Must swarm and propagate the filthy horde Debased, accursed I say, abhorrent and abhorred. Accursed and curse-bestowing. For whosoe'er Shall suffer their contagion, everywhere Falls from the estate of man and finds his end To the mere beverage of the beast condemned. For such as these in vain the Rhine has rolled Imperial centuries by hills of gold; For such as these the flashing Rhone shall rage In vain its lightning through the Hermitage Or level-browed divine Touraine receive The tribute of her vintages at eve. For such as these Burgundian heats in vain Swell the rich slope or load the empurpled plain. Bootless for such as these the mighty task Of bottling God the Father in a flask And leading all Creation down distilled To one small ardent sphere immensely filled. With memories empty, with experience null, With vapid eye-balls meaningless and dull They pass unblest through the unfruitful light; And when we open the bronze doors of Night, When we in high carousal, we reclined, Spur up to Heaven the still ascending mind, Pass with the all inspiring, to and fro, The torch of genius and the Muse's glow, They, lifeless, stare at vacancy alone Or plan mean traffic, or repeat their moan. We, when repose demands us, welcomed are In young white arms, like our great Exemplar Who, wearied with creation, takes his rest And sinks to sleep on Ariadne's breast. They through the darkness into darkness press Despised, abandoned and companionless. And when the course of either's sleep has run We leap to life like heralds of the sun; We from the couch in roseate mornings gay Salute as equals the exultant day While they, the unworthy, unrewarded, they The dank despisers of the Vine, arise To watch grey dawns and mourn indifferent skies.

Forget them! Form the Dionysian ring And pulse the ground, and Io, Io, sing.

Father Lenaean, to whom our strength belongs, Our loves, our wars, our laughter and our songs, Remember our inheritance, who praise Your glory in these last unhappy days When beauty sickens and a muddied robe Of baseness fouls the universal globe. Though all the Gods indignant and their train Abandon ruined man, do thou remain! By thee the vesture of our life was made, The Embattled Gate, the lordly Colonnade, The woven fabric's gracious hues, the sound Of trumpets, and the quivering fountain-round, And, indestructible, the Arch, and, high, The Shaft of Stone that stands against the sky, And, last, the guardian-genius of them, Rhyme, Come from beyond the world to conquer time: All these are thine, Lenaean.

By thee do seers the inward light discern; By thee the statue lives, the Gods return; By thee the thunder and the falling foam Of loud Acquoria's torrent call to Rome; Alba rejoices in a thousand springs, Gensano laughs, and Orvieto sings... But, Ah! With Orvieto, with that name Of dark, Eturian, subterranean flame The years dissolve. I am standing in that hour Of majesty Septembral, and the power Which swells the clusters when the nights are still With autumn stars on Orvieto hill.

Had these been mine, Ausonian Muse, to know The large contented oxen heaving slow; To count my sheaves at harvest; so to spend Perfected days in peace until the end; With every evening's dust of gold to hear The bells upon the pasture height, the clear Full horn of herdsmen gathering in the kine To ancient byres in hamlets Appenine, And crown abundant age with generous ease: Had these, Ausonian Muse, had these, had these.....

But since I would not, since I could not stay, Let me remember even in this my day How, when the ephemeral vision's lure is past All, all, must face their Passion at the last

Was there not one that did to Heaven complain How, driving through the midnight and the rain, He struck, the Atlantic seethe and surge before, Wrecked in the North along a lonely shore To make the lights of home and hear his name no more. Was there not one that from a desperate field Rode with no guerdon but a rifted shield; A name disherited; a broken sword; Wounds unrenowned; battle beneath no Lord; Strong blows, but on the void, and toil without reward.

When from the waste of such long labour done I too must leave the grape-ennobling sun And like the vineyard worker take my way Down the long shadows of declining day, Bend on the sombre plain my clouded sight And leave the mountain to the advancing night, Come to the term of all that was mine own With nothingness before me, and alone; Then to what hope of answer shall I turn? Comrade-Commander whom I dared not earn, What said You then to trembling friends and few? "A moment, and I drink it with you new: But in my Father's Kingdom." So, my Friend, Let not Your cup desert me in the end. But when the hour of mine adventure's near Just and benignant, let my youth appear Bearing a Chalice, open, golden, wide, With benediction graven on its side. So touch my dying lip: so bridge that deep: So pledge my waking from the gift of sleep, And, sacramental, raise me the Divine: Strong brother in God and last companion, Wine. Hilaire Belloc

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CMP Travel Program and Section of Invertebrate Paleontology Promotes the 125th Anniversary of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh with an outdoor walking tour

Before Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh (CMP) reopened to the public on June 28th, Barbara Tucker, Director of CMP’s Travel Program, talked with me about ways to reengage members and bring them back to the Oakland museums.

With knowledge about my research on the 125th Anniversary of the founding of the Carnegie Library, Barbara suggested a 90-minute outdoor walking tour around the exterior of the massive building. Starting from where the oldest portion of the building (Portal Entry) meets the newest (Museum of Art) to the front of the historic library entrance, past the Diplodocus carnegii statue, to Forbes Avenue and the entrances of the music hall, natural history museum, and fine arts museum guarded by the statues of the noble quartet.

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The tour was advertised on the CMP website under the Travel Program link, https://carnegiemuseums.org/things-to-do/travel-with-us/ and https://carnegiemuseums.org/kollar/, and accurately described as an activity fully compliant with CDC protocols. Within a week, the tour received overwhelming signups, which were organized by date and number of participants by Travel Program assistant Isabel Romanowski. Three tour dates were set in August and several more in September. Special private tours for donors and others in the fall continue to be arranged.

Andrew Carnegie, Founder:

As guide for an exercise that involves close observation of architectural details, I face the challenge of getting participants to imagine this section of Pittsburgh long before any of the structures around in Oakland existed. The library and museums cover five acres of flat bottom land formed by the pre-Ice Age Monongahela River more than 1.2 million years ago. In far more recent times, the land was part of the Mary Schenley Mount Airy tract of 300 acres which was donated to the City of Pittsburgh in 1889 to create Schenley Park in her honor. Andrew Carnegie, (1835 – 1919) industrialist, steel magnate, and philanthropist, in 1895 saw the site as a place to build a complex with a library, fine arts gallery, science museum, and music hall that would represent the noble quartet of literature, art, science, and music.

The Library Tour Themes:

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Tour groups assemble on the dark stone steps outside the Carnegie Museum of Art (CMOA) rear entrance for an introduction focusing on the two connected, but architecturally different buildings: the Beaux-Arts style Carnegie Complex, with the original structure dating to1895, and later addition to 1907, which was built by Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow using Carnegie Steel (Fig. 2), and the modern Carnegie Museum of Art, built by architect Edward Larrabee Barnes in 1974.

Two rock types distinguish the building exteriors. The older portions of the building are clad in a light grey, easily carved, 370 million-year-old Berea Sandstone from Amherst, Ohio, while the exterior and much of the interior of Museum of Art is covered in the 295 million-year-old bluish iridescence Larvikite igneous rock from Larvik, Norway. When Barnes was commissioned to build CMOA, he chose the dark rock to blend with the older building’s coal dust veneer, a grime coating that was removed when the exterior stone was cleaned in 1990.

Landscape Art and Geology:

Fig. 3

Pittsburgh’s landscape painter, John Kane’s (1860 – 1934), Cathedral of Learning, circa 1930 (Fig. 3), depicts the 150-foot-deep Junction Hollow with its operating railroad. The work also includes many important architectural references, the Schenley Park Bridge (1897), Carnegie Institute’s Bellefield Boiler Plant (designed by Alden and Harlow in 1907 to supply electricity and heat to adjacent buildings), the Carnegie Institute Extension (1907), and a then unfinished Cathedral of Learning. This painting is part of CMOA Fine Arts collections.

Fig. 4

Another John Kane landscape, Panther Hollow, circa 1930 – 1934, (Fig. 4A) in combination with Cathedral of Learning has been used in teaching about the 300 million-year-old geology of Schenley Park (Fig. 4B2) and the pre-Pleistocene Monongahela River that formed the flat bottom landscape of Oakland, and through erosion, Junction Hollow (Fig. 4B1). Kollar and Brezinski 2010, Geology, Landscape, and John Kane’s Landscape Paintings.

Junction Hollow Landscape:

Kane’s Cathedral of Learning (1930) is an idealized green space of Junction Hollow, the Wilmot Street Bridge in the foreground (1907) now replaced with the Charles Anderson Bridge (1940), and Carnegie Tech’s (now Carnegie Mellon University’s) Hamerschlag Hall or Machinery Hall (1912), built by Henry Hornbostel, a Pittsburgh architect. Hornbostel designed a circular Roman temple wrapped about a tall yellow brick smokestack (Fig. 4A). The design is based on the Roman temple of Vesta in Tivoli, Italy, dating to the early 1st century BC. Hornbostel’s overall campus design focused on connection between art and science, with Junction Hollow representing the geological sciences. The architect Philip Johnston, who built Pittsburgh’s postmodern PPG Place (circa 1984), once contrasted the Bellefield Boiler Plant smokestack as “the ugliest in the world to Machinery Hall’s smokestack as the most beautiful.” In novelist Michael Chabon’s debut novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, (1988) the Bellefield Boiler Plant, termed “the cloud factory” by the narrator, is the setting for a pivotal scene.

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main):

Fig. 5

The separate institutions we now know as Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Carnegie Museum of Art can track their origins to exhibits and galleries within space now fully occupied by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. An image of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in 1902 from the Bellefield Bridge, a structure now buried under the Mary Schenley Memorial Fountain (1918), reveals eclecticism in architectural features (Fig. 5). The west facing frontage doorways and portico of the library features, CARNEGIE LIBRARY, FREE TO THE PEOPLE, and 24 carved writer names. Missing from the names is Carnegie’s favorite poet, Robert Burns, whose statue was dedicated in 1914 on the grounds of Phipps Conservancy. Three separate entrances are served by granite steps of Permian age from Vermont, one for the science museum, one for the Department of Fine Arts, and the third, with distinctive Romanesque round doorways, brass doors with intricate features, and keystone scrolling, for the Library. This entrance was designed by Harlow, who was the draftsman on the McKim, Mead, and White team responsible for the Beaux-Arts Boston Public Library (1895). When the Carnegie Institute Extension was constructed in 1907, the science museum and fine arts museum collections were moved into the new space. The former spaces in the library became the Children’s Room, Pennsylvania Room, and Music Library.

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A challenge at this point in the tour involves discussing features that are not visible up close. The Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow’s Italian Renaissance and Beaux-Arts H-shaped parallelogram winning design featured a copula (Fig. 6) on top of the red tile roof that was never built. Eclecticism features include a double apse, a smaller shaped semi-circular extension of the library’s wall on the southside of the building, and larger apse on the north or Forbes Avenue side of the building, with the semicircular Music Hall auditorium, designed by Longfellow. The music hall exterior was structurally changed by the 1907 construction (Fig. 7).

The exterior Berea Sandstone reveals rustication masonry techniques with the cut blocks on the exterior first floor level distinguished by ashlar pillow horizontal border stone, and smooth masonry from the second floor to the cornice below the roof line. The second floor late Gothic style windows are divided by a vertical element called a mullion that helps with rigid support of the window arch and divides the window panels. Two symmetrical Campanile towers that Carnegie called “those donkey ears” were modeled after the San Marco Bell Tower in Venice, Italy. The towers served as an architectural offset to the semicircular exterior walls of the music auditorium and were removed in 1902 for the construction of the Carnegie Institute Extension. The installation of the towers can be interpreted as a tribute to Henry Hobson Richardson’s Allegheny County Courthouse twin towers (1888).

Architects choice of light grey sandstone and red tile roof:

The library’s red tile roof incorporated multiple glass roofs over the library, fine arts galleries, and science museum (all shaded from exterior sunlight today) which typified the Beau-Arts style. Keep in mind, the library did not have electric light. Light was provided by gas lighting and natural sunlight. Longfellow, Alden, and Harlow wrote that “the choice of a red tile roof and grey Ohio (Berea) Sandstone was intentional to contrast with Pittsburgh’s grey skies and the changing seasonal colors of the foliage in Schenley Park.”

The Beaux-Arts Architecture of the Carnegie Institute Extension 1907:

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After Longfellow returned to his Boston practice in 1896, Alden and Harlow received the commission to build the Carnegie Institute Extension (1907) (Fig. 8). Their efforts created one of the great Beaux-Arts building in the United States. As Cynthia Field, Smithsonian Architecture Historian, stated in 1985, “the building itself is the greatest object of the entire museum collection.” Formal recognition of the building’s architectural importance exists in two historic landmark plagues placed outside of the Carnegie Library entrance and the Museums’ Carriage Drive entrance (Fig. 9).

New exterior features of the 1907 extension work included the replacement of the red tile roof with copper, the addition of an armillary sphere, the construction, with a colonnade of solid Corinthian fluted columns of Berea Sandstone, four portico porches over the main entrances to the library, music hall, natural history and art museum, and eastside of building (now removed), and the creation, along Forbes Avenue, of a main Carriage Drive entrance with direct access to the galleries. The carved names of authors, artists, musicians, and scientists in the buildings’ entablature, a Victorian era practice, extends around the building from the library’s southeast corner to the music hall entrance, and natural history and the fine arts entrances.

Also notable along Forbes Avenue are John Massey Rhind’s noble quartet statues that guard the Music Hall and Natural History and Art entrances. The four male figures all seated in classic Greek chairs are Michelangelo (art), Shakespeare (literature), Bach (music), and Galileo (science). Standing three stories above the quartet on the edge of the roof, four groups of female allegorical figures represent literature, music, art, and science as well. The bronze figures were casted in Naples, Italy in 1907 (Fig 8).

Inside the 1907 Architecture and Building Stones:

The architects created 13 new interior spaces where three grand spaces stand out for specific architecture styles such as, the Beaux-Arts Grand Staircase (voted in 2018 as the 8th best museum staircase in the world), the Neoclassical Hall of Sculpture, and neo-Baroque Music Hall Foyer. The extension used 32 varieties of marbles and fossil limestones, many from antiquity, quarried and imported from Algeria, Croatia, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, and the United States.

Since 2004, the collaboration between the CMP Travel Program and the Section of Invertebrate Paleontology has been highly successful reaching out to our members and patrons. This summer’s tours generated some particularly appreciative comments:

The Carnegie's resident scientists are a defining characteristic of this noble institution. Might be an anachronism in an era when museums are focused on providing 'destination' entertainment and hosting special events for swells, but while treasures like Dr. Kollar are still on staff, it’s a splendid idea to facilitate interaction between them and museum visitors. Congratulations on a most enjoyable program. -Ron Sommer

Albert was very informative and interesting. I found it most valuable learning the history of the area. -Janet Seifert

I can't stress enough how unusual and interesting it was to have a geologist give us the tour. It had never occurred to me before that there's so much one can learn about building materials from a geologist. -Neepa Majumdar

Albert D. Kollar is Collection Manager and Carnegie’s Historian of the Carnegie’s Building Stones. Barbara Tucker is Director of Carnegie Travel Program.

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princess Odette Craweleoth; After going dark.

Tale 19: Meriam Craweleoth: Mage Queen of The Grand West (chapter 6 - The Future Holds 6/10) part 4. Stories of Old

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Near the end of winter, Murdoc Monafyra arrived with his panther familiar Stearra. He wore black wolf kingdom robes, and seemed to be in a state of serenity. He stood before the royal family with words of warning. Meriam was happy to see him, for when they last met, he was but a boy aspiring to be a seer mage. And now he as a young man that looked so much like his father.

“What brings you to our halls Murdoc, son of Helrem?” Meriam asked.

“I come to tell you my father is an idiot. And brother Tiberius Blacstorm has returned to Pepperidge, in your kingdom, and built a gate. It has a large ominous black tower, made of marble from those mountains, and the new magic forest scares the merchants.” Murdoc said in a rough low voice. He was chewing his unlit pipe, and seemed to be combing his mind. “Ah, yes. I am also to tell you my father is dead, gave the instructions for wands to Tiberius, to distribute at the trading post. These commoners of magic houses who learn father’s way of magic call themselves ‘Wizards’, and hate us mages. Murderous intent in the lot of them; as you probably feared my lady. Saw some popping up here, with political opinions and such. Better have your guard up. They think we’re dangerous and wield uncontrollable power of peril; suggesting that because common folk can learn magic, civilization has no need for mages. As if we care about common parliament, and not all aspire to be but hermits befriending fey.” Murdoc went on. Meriam looked markedly unamused. In fact, the whole room read like a disappointed audience to an improv skit. Meriam gestured for Murdoc to go on; if he still standing there, he had more to say.

“As you are aware master Craweleoth, killing mages will not do anything. A certain percent of magic housed people will be mages; or talented wizards now, I guess.” He coughed. A mortifying fear strung through Meriam: Her assumptions were correct. Her nephew Eatheltwein, and her daughter, were confirmed mages. It’s was pure chance; and now people who irresponsibly use magic, intend to kill them.

Meriam, in the middle of the main hall, went dark, causing her daughter and nephew, who were innocently beside her, to go dark as well. The flow of magic can thin the veils, making a dark state contagious to those in magic houses. If everyone else hadn’t leapt back, they would have had the same fate. Murdoc would be gone by dawn, while everyone lay sick with blood loss and fever from magic ripping through their bones between veils.

Meriam recovered quickly, as she had gone dark many times before. She could control it and knew her limits. But when people first experience the ether rush threw them, their bodies are less resistant to damage; The new sensation overwhelming them, as they do not yet know how to harness so much magic. Random spells can be cast around them, as they glow and cast until they are too weak to stand. Meriam, in all her experience, knew how to remedy the bleeding, fever, and weakness after such an ordeal. She took turns visiting her nephew and daughter, to make sure they recovered.

While Odette recovered, she asked to be laid in a large chair looking out her window. Her Bedroom balcony had a view of the courtyard fountain. She sat alone singing quietly. While Eatheltwein, struggled to regain strength, he lay unmoving in bed. Meriam went to bring him food, when she noticed the king was by his side.

“Good, you’re awake, Eathel-” Meriam said.

“Uncle wants to have me, and Odette, married.” Eathel interrupted. Meriam became furious. Her children were only now recovering and adjusting, were secretly mages with their lives threatened, and there was talk of betrothal. Meriam had been wed for politics against her autonomy, and no child of hers was going to be subjected to the same fate. Her happy union was but a fluke.

“Our children lay sick, and we fear for the world of magic, and you want to have weddings? Eatheltwein and Odette are not pawns, they are children! Furthermore, the only unwed royal I know is Edmond of the Far North, and he has seen twenty more autumns then our twelve-year-old daughter. A man of his status in these times would have at least three bastards.” Meriam snapped. Dropping the dishes.

“We have friends in three nations; we have only to send letters. Yet, I agree we should remove Edmond from the list…” the king said. “Maybe he’s still brooding, and already wed to his job.”

“I’m going to marry a noble lady form a far-off land.” Eathel mused in a quiet tiered voice. He stared into the ceiling longingly. “Bless I may wake in the dawn, to hear that she is from Daneia…” He continued.

“How much blood did he loose?” The king asked in bewilderment.

“Bold of you to assume he lost the blood.” Meriam scoffed. “All this talk about girls around a young man, could make him mad. Eathel may follow his heart, as mages fall easily in love, and love is the most powerful magic. Just the type of magic this world needs most. We will wait a little longer for our daughter; Any man interested in a girl her age should be castrated.”

“Mages? Do you mean to say that Eatheltwein is a mage? Is he in danger from those malicious emerging wizards Merry?”

“Yes.” Meriam said. “Helrem may be an idiot, but he made wands for commoners to love magic. However, mages can’t use wands; our magic is different. Though perhaps, if we give Eathel a wand that a mage can use, and the people will think he’s a saviour. A ‘talented wizard.’ if you will. Maybe one for Odette as well; I see her talk to, and charm, the fey. Only mages can charm.” Meriam said, taking a seat on the other side of Eatheltwein’s bed. The king was nearly in tears. His entire family was on the chopping block.

“Darling, there may be a solution: Tiberius may have one to lend, or at least Helrem’s notes on how to make one. I will go to his gate tomorrow.” Meriam said. Desperately trying to comfort her husband and herself. She didn’t want o leave her ill family so soon, but Murdoc’s words filled her with urgency and fear. Eatheltwein had fallen asleep, with the cold press sliding down his face, and holding his king uncle’s hand. Even in illness, he was still full of that sunshine that Meriam loved so much.

Meriam fed Odette breakfast, well sharing her plan. She was to leave shortly, and did not want Odette to become spooked by Murdoc’s words. She deserved to know. Odette’s new platinum hair and icy eyes made her look like snow. It was a striking change of colours. Meriam enjoyed that Odette looked like she did in her youth; bronze-gold locks and olive eyes upon a freckled canvas. But now something seemed off about her little princess. Not just her appearance.

“I hope Tiberius can help.” Odette said. She gazed out the window. “I’m not scared of those wizards, mom; I’m scared dad wants to give me away to an unfit duke. I’m having fun, and we all love each other; I don’t want some boy ruining it.” She pouted.

“Well, I’ll be sure to stop that from happening. By the way Odette, why do you always look out the balcony? What in our courtyard makes you leave the windows open?” Meriam asked, kissing her girl’s forehead. She was still a bit warm with fever.

“There is a handsome nobleman who I like better, who listens to my song; he visits some days. Unlike me though, he can fly away from the restraints of a palace, and the control of others. I want to fly, sing, and see beyond this palace too. Like all the birds who talk in this city.” Odette mused. Meriam held her breath. She would pass through the shadow veil to Tiberius gate to get Eatheltwein a wand, and she would pass through the Raven Kingdom. Meriam was curious if the Raven King may have become infatuated with her daughter, and being a bad influence. But then again, if Odette happily found true love, and supported a kingdom of fey by becoming a Beast Queen, she would be safe from the wizards. As commoners, they cannot reach her, as a free bird in the shadow veil. Meriam hugged her daughter, then her nephew, then her husband goodbye before she left on her brief quest; They must all know she loves them. Less she never returns, or they are not there when she returns.

In the shadow veil, Meriam walked into the raven kingdom. Black and white, but illuminated by the colours of various avian fey. Golden gryphons who napped on rocks, and opalescent thunderbirds playing in the clouds. Only here, was the singing of birds heard in the silence of the shadow veil. For only magic can stimulate the senses here. Deep in the raven kingdom woods, Meriam heard an off-tune crackling hum come from a twisted tall tree in a clearing. As she approached, it became apparent the tree was laced in magnificently lustrous trash. It was strategically hung to reflect light, like the facets of a lapidary’s finest work. Near the mid of the tree, Meriam saw the Raven King in human form, tying a string of sparkling garbage, to what appeared to be a giant nearly completed nest.

“Raven King? Have you been visiting my daughter?” Meriam asked calmly. She was not calm. “She’s a bit young; You wouldn’t mind waiting a little longer would you? To see if she requites your love, I mean.”

“Love never waits.” He cawed, before gestured to his work. “What do you think Meriam!?” The Raven King chirped before the dazzling tree. Meriam clapped for a brief applause, causing the Raven King to smile. She did think it looked smashing.

“She loves to fly, and speaks fondly of you. I suppose it is better then being married off like me. Commoners mean to kill mages, and it makes me fear for her safety. If you love her, make my baby happy, and safe.” Meriam said. Her voice cracked with sadness as she pushed down her wave of emotions, and thoughts. The Raven King swopped down, and hugged Meriam in the clearing, as if to convey that it would be his honour. And when Meriam began to sob, he let her cry. She wanted to stop time, but knew it would always need to resume. More time with her children, more time to prepare for change.

Tiberius’s gate was impressive. Tiberius had become a talented warlock and artist. When Meriam arrived in the center of the gate, she was greeted by a toddler who started giving her random objects. Then Tiberius came, picked up the girl, and bowed.

“Hello your majesty! What can I do for you? Need a tour? Tell me to stay away from the commoners perhaps? Maybe a nicer sword then the one Helrem made for your husband? Which I see you wield instead…” Tiberius rambled. “This is my daughter Fyra, by the way. Her mom left, but we’re still here. Happy magic family in my peaceful mystical forest.”

“Helrem had a wand of twisted white and violet glass, that could be used by a mage. I need one like that. The commoners who are becoming wizards, from Helrem’s publications, are becoming murderous like scared trolls. I need one to convince people a specific mage, is actually a wizard; for political and magic peace of course.”

“Oh. Well, I don’t know how to make one.” Tiberius said casually. Meriam grimaced. She was having a bad day. Actually, a lot of her days seemed to be non ideal recently. But she was too much of a coward to go back in time to fix things, because it could always get worse. Meriam looked into Tiberius’s hazel eyes with the glare of tiger about to pounce. Tiberius became pale.

“I have his notes! Yes, instructions!” Tiberius yelled. “I have quite the empty shelf space in the walls of this here tower. My inspiration for this gate was: ‘Wow’, with a touch of ‘why?’. But half way through, I realized the black marble made a much different statement; should’ve just alchemised the structure, instead of singing it into place.” Tiberius began to rant. Then he saw Meriam begin to slowly move forward with the same glare.

“Enough of that then! You can skip on home to the palace now, and I’ll make you a mage pen quick and proper miss; I’ll mail it straight to the palace! No payment, no questions, and no worries!” He winced.

“Thankyou.” Meriam eased back. “And in my opinion, I love our lands black marble; I love black. I don’t think you should care what statement your big black magic tower makes.” Meriam said, patting Tiberius and shoulder. He glowed with pride.

A week later, in the palace, Eatheltwein’s wand arrived. It was made of brass, and engraved with a gryphon for house Cynedom. Eathel gave it a whirl, and spent the mourning doing magic with it. He almost lit the kitchen on fire, and flooded the laundry room. Meanwhile, Meriam sat in the courtyard, enjoying the crisp new spring. She was wearing her under garments, while fixing some old clothes to suit the times better. She kept a close watch over Odette, who sang at the fountain edge for the golden geese, who honked with applause. Odette didn’t emote much, which made her smiles all the more precious. The King on the other hand, was greeting Edmond in the dining hall. He came with a peace declaration, as an excuse to visit Anglia. It felt warm to him. After politics was discussed, and cups tipped to peace, Edmond asked to see Eathletwein. The King gladly escorted Edmond to the courtyard to see Eathel casting water for the tulips, with sweetmeat and bread hanging out of his mouth. Edmond gave a hearty cheerful laugh, and went in to tightly embrace Eathel. Edmond seemed happy, and at peace. Meriam had left him a lonely man, and now he was a king who had retired from being a paladin mage. He was a whole new person.

“I look forward to our alliance. As next in line, I had to meet you Eatheltwein Cynedom. What tool is that you hold?”

“It’s a wand; invented by a mage of your kingdom, in the Far North. It’s to allow any who love magic to be one with it.” Eathel smiled. He had never met Edmond, or heard of the sins towards fey and men, this king had committed; he was happy to meet a new friend. His gleaming innocence made Edmond feel even warmer.

Eatheltwein patted a stone bench by the tulips, so they could sit. It felt good to take a good sturdy seat after a long journey; or just a few hours running around a yard. The king sat next to Meriam, his beloved wife, and also intently watched their precious heirs.

“When you become a king, what do you want for Anglia?” Edmond asked, taking in the crisp dewy noon. The joy water Etheltwein casted, made the tree children smell like a lush greenhouse.

“I want a time without war, and warm summers. I want my people to be more involved with what happens in my land. They have put forth a court of men for me, to speak on their behalf; their novel input has led to innovation and wealth for my people.” Edmond Explained.

“I want Anglia to be called the Grand West, and be friends with everyone; including Francia.” Eatheltwein chirped. He caught his familiar, Viola, in his hand, and kissed her. Edmond remembered he had a familiar once, a black grizzly, of who he missed. He was an adaptive, fierce and hearty beast. Edmond wondered what that said about him; If familiar reflect their master’s inner nature. In contrast, Eatheltwein’s golden canary was small and cheerful.

“Are you sad, Lord Edmond?” Eatheltwein asked.

“Sometimes.” Edmond said. “Hmm. Your plans for the future of ‘The Grand West’, sound lovely. I think we could all use a lot more friendship and love. The most powerful type of magic in our realm. Yet, I am curious; Why do you wish to change your kingdom’s name? There is no change to its size, nor government.”

“Because calling lands by their linguistic, and thus ethnic identities, separates them. Each land has different peoples, but every land has the same North, East, South and West. Like the table of fours. I don’t want us to see each other as strangers. I want us to be together.” Eathel said, petting Viola. Edmond admitted, that sounded nice, if not impossible. To have everyone to focus on each other as people instead of independent opposing nations; Including Francia. As spring approached, Francia would resume annexing foreign land at its boarders, to feed its starving people. Edmond could not imagine a world without conflict.

“That’s is a big plan. People are divided over land, and now we become divided over who can wield magic. This world will not have balance so easily.”

“I contest; I have read many of my aunt’s journals. They tell stories about people, even in the farthest lands, that deep down, realize the comfort of a good friend. Between fey, men, or nations; the dust will settle if we are kind.” Eathletwein said. He was watching Odette try to jump and fly after the geese. It gave everyone a laugh. Her light blue dress that was embroidered with wings, and her ethereal paleness made her almost like a swan. Everything in that moment, though providing light, felt a little like a lie. Beyond the courtyard, there was poverty, starvation, unpunished war crimes, and now wizards killing innocent mages and fey.

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