So! This is one of the fun early scenes to Les Gens de La Mer. Really, it’s the first scene after the opening tension is finally released, where the characters fall back into banter to try and define their relationships with one another through language. Balsar, who is the king’s representative, is escorting Lyssad, our shipwrecked-washed-ashore-byronic-hero, to come before the King to tell his story. It’s fun, and fairly simple once you get the hang of it.
The reason I bring this up is that I wrote this six years ago this november and I still think it’s better than almost anything I’ve written since - not perfect, but a perfect snapshot of who I was and who I may be in my best of times. Then again, there’s nothing saying we can’t be even better than we were before.