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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tilmamir" data-source="post: 2294401" data-attributes="member: 31628">Getting together (Relsyn) - Coldeven 11Coming down the road, Garret is in his finest traveling clothes: The heavy indigo blue robe cinched tightly around his waist to keep out the cold Fireseek [February] air. The hood of his cloak is up over his thin hair and comes around his face. He enters the room lowering his hood and smiling from ear to ear, obviously eager to go.Together, Relsyn and Garret perform their daily prayers in the modest chapel in the church.As they stand and gather their gear, Garret begins " I have booked a ride on a barge leaving this morning. We should be able to make it to Antioch in a week or so, in modest comfort.  Shall we begin?"  He walks down the road to the docks and clip-clops over the wood docks.  Garret walks up to a barge with the name "seaweed" elaborately carved into the gunwale on front and back of the craft. The boat is about four paces wide and perhaps ten paces long, tapering sharply to a point in the stem and stern sections. A small cabin with three cramped rooms is neatly fitted with the implements of sleeping and cooking for the crew of seven. By the smell of it, it is now loaded with smoked meat and cheeses.  The Captain, Ezekiel Jacobs, extends a hand to Garret and heartily welcomes him aboard. "We'come bick, rit when ye said yed be. thirs mut be the youngun ye ment'nd.  Wec'ome!" and says as he extends his hand to help Relsyn.  "Zeke they call me. do da same." He shows Garret and Relsyn to the cabin they will  share, and then quickly goes about putting the barge out into the stream with the polemen casting off and deftly pushing the craft where it needs to go.Relsyn, Garret, and Zeke spend the next few days discussing the deep matters of the church, ancient documents each have been analyzing, and the matters of steering a barge down river. "Goin' upriver is herder, be needin ropes and horses for da tuggen if it be hevy"At sunrise on the sixth day, Seaweed glides into the docks in Antioch.</blockquote>

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