NEW: IMPORTANT DISCLAMER
In an alternate past where magic is recognize as a true science, people are starving for land. To alleviate the burden, the government of Great Britain created floating islands, gigantic city that travels the sea.
On the Island of King James, two people that have nothing in common must understand what is the link between a series of grotesque and macabre murders, the struggle for power that the great nations of their time fight in the shadow, secret society that view to control said nations, and the part they must play in all this.
Follow Lady Viona Galder, Techno-Scientist, and Alexander Shaw, Mathmagician as they travel trough land, myth and the proverbial looking glass to find if the white rabbit truly exist. An epic story with amazing inventions, Baritsu and of course; Steampunk to the roof! Read More…
Chapter 1 - Housecoming
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01 – Students In Waiting
Alexander Shaw, sitting in the comfort of the study room, was listening absently to Alice and her young cousin Mary reciting their multiplication tables. Despite his best efforts, the young teacher’s mind was not on today’s lesson. The head of the Galder family was due home any moment now andContinue reading...
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02 – Back to Galder House
Lady Viona Galder, climbing out swiftly from the small Butterfly Class aircraft as it finally reached its destination, looked up to the large towering manor standing in front of her. So this was her home, the new House of Galder, in which she would spend most of the coming months.Continue reading...
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03 – In Children’s Eyes
As the eyes of his employer dove into his, Alexander sighed. Here came trouble. Young Lady Viona had obviously taken a strong dislike to him. Why? He did not have a clue. After all this was only their second encounter, how could have he done something to her dislike? VionaContinue reading...
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04 – Tea and cookies
With David bouncing on his knees, Alexander was sitting comfortably in the living room. Since they had been waiting for a moment, Shaw had took on himself to entertain the young audience with a simple illusion. Creating the images from the dust normally floating in the air, the young teacherContinue reading...
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05 – Polite Conversation
When Shaw thought he would be pushed to the background, the voice of the young lady rose over the chattering of the children to address him, her eyes fixed on the young teacher. "- Nice explanation on the Sublimation effect." The comment was really the first compliment Alexander's employer hadContinue reading...
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06 – Strange Invitation
The young lady watched the children open the bags and share the many surprises they were finding. Then, slowly, Viona turned distant eyes toward the teacher, continuing the polite discussion with the man, unsure if really anything she said had any interest to him. "- We also attended some experimentationContinue reading...
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07 – Lesson In Bartitsu
The small silence that had followed the incident with Ankony had made Alexander highly uncomfortable. Turning quickly toward Viona, he was swift to explain. “- I believe in a strong mind in a strong body, just like people of Ancient Greece did. So, I have been teaching all the childrenContinue reading...
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08 – Dinner Time
The supper was a joyful affair. The girls exchanged ideas on the new London fashion, musing on the ways they could use their new accessories in their life on King James Island. On their side, the boys were beyond themselves with excitement, enjoying the small steam toys that Viona hadContinue reading...
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09 – Sharing Your Luck Governer?
The duo was enjoying their brisk walk in the night air when, arriving only two or three streets away from the pub, Alexander lifted his hand and placed it on Viona’s arm in a familiar way. The young Lady looked askance at him and to her surprise, he bent toContinue reading...
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10 – A Lady In A Pub
As they walked in, the Bartender of the Shenanigan threw askance of a glance in the direction of the couple. The young Lady was far from surprised, very few pub had the pretension of accepting women, after all where would man go for some relaxing time if their feminine counterpartContinue reading...
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11 – Drinking Game
That drinking game was sure to be some fun time for the Mathemage. Alexander smiled a slow smile, thinking Viona was in for a big surprise. He lift the next shot, drank it and put the glass with the other one. After an understandable smirk at the burn of theContinue reading...
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12 – Turning Of The Tide
After a moment of thought, the teacher decided to move the game forward. Indicating the whiskey glass with his hand, Alexander smiled apologetically. "- Your turn, miss Galder." Viona looked at her drink a bit thoughtful, she had not plan for such direct questions from the young man but sheContinue reading...
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13 – Love Life
Alexander drank his shot, looked at the bottle and made a hand gesture. Soon, another one was there, opened and ready to take the place of the soon to be empty one. He thought long and hard and then some. Shaw contemplated his glass wondering if the next question shouldContinue reading...
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14 – No Girls For Shaw
The amusement in Viona eyes made them shine. She pulled herself closer to the table to bend over and talk to him more closely... The whisky was probably starting to make her blood thinner. "- So... No women for you, you say? And why so? Is your preference elsewhere orContinue reading...
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Good day to you all, this is Guy, the War Master writing to you. Yes you, and you too. And…ok maybe you, but please, next times take a bath 
Ok, joke time over, I would like to address a comment that has been brought to our attention: the quality of our written English. As you might have noticed if you’ve taken the time to read our bio, we are both French speaking and writing authors. And moreover, I’m dyslexic. People criticized our work which is amazing since it means that they took the time to read us. Yay for us 
. But some of you out there criticize our writing skills and grammar. Well, we took the comment to heart and worked on getting things better for the last two month.
How did it go? Not so well. Even though we are considered pretty good at English, it is not our native tongue. So we tried to find help but it is hard to have people correcting us for free. We had some amazing help but it is still not enough.
So, for the first four month, we worked daily to write this story we had in mind, had lengthy discussion about the world, the plot and where it would lead, how should Alexander and Viona evolve and so forth and so on. Then, for the last two month we forgo writing in favor of trying to better our style, spelling and grammar. And you know what? It did not show.
We forgot the main purpose of this project: to write an amazing story to the best of our capacity. We have lost part of the passion and the flame that was driving us to stay late even though we have work early the next morning and the fact that we are a continent away one from the other. Now, we are arguing, actually arguing as to should there be a coma here or not.
So, being a action driven guy, I decided that it was time to go back to the main focus of this amazing project that had us dreaming and daydreaming: writing a story worthy of our readers who will hopefully understand our limitation.
And if it is an issue to you out there, start donating and we will use this money to hire a professional proof reader.
Now, it is past time to go back to some creative writing, amazing plot story, character development and more surprise for you guys.
Keep on reading,
Guy Matte, War Master of Artenia
