Into the Nanten: the Record o...

By jayswanson

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The Nanten is a jungle so hostile that to enter it willingly is considered suicide. This is the journal of Ma... More

Entry 1 - Day 117
Entry 2 - Day 118
Entry 3 - Day 119
Entry 4 - Day 120
Entry 5 - Day 121
Entry 6 - Day 122
Entry 7 - Day 123
Entry 8 - Day 124
Entry 9 - Day 125
Entry 10 - Day 126
Entry 11 - Day 127
Entry 12 - Day 128
Entry 13 - Day 129
Entry 14 - Day 130
Entry 15 - Day 131
Entry 16 - Day 132
Entry 17 - Day 133
Entry 18 - Day 134
Entry 19 - Day 135
Entry 20 - Day 136
Entry 21 - Day 137
Entry 22 - Day 139
Entry 23 - Day 140
Entry 24 - Day 141
Entry 25 - Day 142
Entry 26 - Day 142
Entry 27 - Day 143
Entry 28 - Day 144
Entry 29 - Day 145
Entry 30 - Day 146
Entry 31 - Day 147
Entry 32 - Day 148
Entry 33 - Day 149
Entry 34 - Day 150
Entry 35 - Day 152
Entry 36 - Day 153
Entry 37 - Day 154
Entry 38 - Day 155
Entry 39 - Day 156
Entry 40 - Day 157
Entry 41 - Day 158
Entry 42 - Day 159
Entry 43 - Day 160
Entry 44 - Day 161
Entry 45 - Day 162
Entry 46 - Day 163
Entry 47 - Day 163
Entry 48 - Day 164
Entry 49 - Day 165
Entry 50 - Day 166
Entry 51 - Day 167
Entry 52 - Day 168
Entry 53 - Day 169
Entry 54 - Day 172
Entry 55 - Day 173
Entry 56 - Day 174
Entry 57 - Day 175
Entry 58 - Day 176
Entry 59 - Day 177
Entry 60 - Day 178
Entry 61 - Day 179
Entry 62 - Day 180
Entry 63 - Day 181
Entry 64 - Day 182
Entry 65 - Day 183
Entry 66 - Day 184
Enter 67 - Day 185
Entry 68 - Day 186
Entry 69 - Day 187
Entry 70 - Day 188
Entry 71 - Day 189
Entry 72 - Day 190
Entry 73 - Day 191
Entry 74 - Day 192
Entry 75 - Day 193
Entry 76 - Day 194
Entry 77 - Day 195
Entry 78 - Day 196
Entry 79 - 197
Entry 80 - Day 199
Entry 81 - Day 200
Entry 82 - Day 201
Entry 83 - Day 202
Entry 84 - Day 203
Entry 85 - Day 204
Entry 86 - Day 205
Entry 87 - Day 206
Entry 88 - Day 207
Entry 89 - Day 208
Entry 90 - Day 209
Entry 91 - Day 210
Entry 92 - Day 211
Entry 93 - Day 212
Entry 94 - Day 214
Entry 95 - Day 215
Entry 96 - Day 216
Entry 97 - Day 217
Entry 98 - Day 218
Entry 99 - Day 219
Entry 100 - Day 220
Entry 101 - Day 221
Entry 102 - Day 222
Entry 103 - Day 223
Entry 104 - Day 224
Entry 105 - Day 225
Entry 106 - Day 226
Entry 107 - Day 227
Entry 108 - Day 228
Entry 109 - Day 229
Entry 110 - Day 230
Entry 111 - Day 231
Entry 112 - 232
Entry 113 - Day 233
Entry 114 - Day 234
Entry 115 - Day 235
Entry 116 - Day 236
Entry 117 - Day 237
Entry 118 - Day 238
Entry 119 - Day 239
Entry 120 - Day 240
Entry 121 - Day 241
Entry 122 - Day 242
Entry 123 - Day 243
Entry 124 - Day 244
Entry 125 - Day 245
Entry 126 - Day 246
Entry 127 - Day 247
Entry 128 - Day 248
Entry 129 - Day 249
Entry 130 - Day 250
Entry 131 - Day 251
Entry 132 - Day 252
Entry 133 - Day 253
Entry 134 - Day 254
Entry 135 - Day 255
Entry 136 - Day 256
Entry 137 - Day 257
Entry 138 - Day 258
Entry 139 - Day 259
Entry 140 - Day 260
Entry 141 - Day 261
Entry 142 - Day 262
Entry 143 - Day 263
Entry 144 - Day 264
Entry 145 - Day 265
Entry 146 - Day 266
Entry 147 - Day 267
Entry 148 - Day 268
Entry 149 - Day 269
Entry 150 - Day 270
Entry 151 - Day 271
Entry 152 - Day 272
Entry 153 - Day 273
Entry 154 - Day 274
Entry 155 - Day 275
Entry 156 - Day 276
Entry 157 - Day 277
Entry 158 - Day 278
Entry 159 - Day 279
Entry 160 - Day 280
Entry 161 - Day 281
Entry 162 - Day 282
Entry 163 - Day 283
Entry 164 - Day 284
Entry 165 - Day 285
Entry 166 - Day 286
Entry 167 - Day 287
Entry 168 - Day 288
Entry 169 - Day 289
Entry 170 - Day 290
Entry 171 - Day 291
Entry 172 - Day 292
Entry 173 - Day 293
Entry 174 - Day 294
Entry 175 - Day 295
Entry 176 - Day 296
Entry 177 - Day 297
Entry 178 - Day 299
Entry 179 - Day 300
Entry 180 - Day 301
Entry 181 - Day 302
Entry 182 - Day 303
Entry 183 - Day 304
Entry 184 - Day 305
Entry 185 - Day 306
Entry 186 - Day 307
Entry 187 - Day 308
Entry 188 - Day 309
Entry 189 - Day 313
Entry 190 - Day 314
Entry 191 - Day 315
Entry 192 - Day 316
Entry 193 - Day 317
Entry 195 - Day 319

Day 194 - Entry 318

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By jayswanson

He stepped through the foliage and into the firelight like a ghost. He is still is a ghost, the ghost that haunts my every step.

Brin Salisir walked into my camp last night as if it were his own. He spoke to me as if unsurprised by my presence. He spoke to Inifra as if she were an old friend. All of my fears, all of the torture of this voyage, the pain, the death, all of it negated in gravity by his cock-sure swagger.

The way he sat on that stool as if he were in his own home lounging...

I didn't even hear what he said over the crackling rage that built within me. I wanted to lunge across the fire between us and strangle him. I wanted him dead, hoped him dead.

I had believed that Brin Salisir was dead, and that was as I wanted it.

Then he stepped into life. There wasn't a care that burdened him, nor any crack in his comfort among the Nantese. Not only did they recognize him, but immediately they began to speak to him as if he were a long-lost friend. The bastard speaks Nantese.

He didn't bother asking why I was there. He didn't care to find out that Slad Bolton and Roos "Starlark" na Crestward – the son of the bloody Scepter of the Realm, I should add – had died searching for him. He didn't give two shits for us.

Brin Salisir didn't ask me a single question until he looked at me and requested I join him. The bastard asked me for my help.

I walked away then, because if I didn't leave I would draw my sword and kill him sitting. I would shift. I would freeze time itself, walk up to him, and slide my blade between his neck and collar bone until it pierced him to the bowels and pinned him to that stool. I wouldn't let anyone see me do it. To them it would appear to have happened instantaneously. But they would fear me for it.

This entire jungle would fear me for my wrath.

I walked away so that the ghost before me could live another day.

Inifra came to me later but I turned her away. Ididn't want to hear his name on her lips. I hated that she recognized him eventhough she had never seen him with her own eyes. I could not... I don't know thatI can handle this.

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