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Duties of a Second-Ranked Master - Waterman

Dusk Peterson

Publisher: Love in Dark Settings Press

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Summary

"Trafford came first. Trafford was always going to come first, Davenham quickly gathered when he announced his intention to take a liegeman." 
Studying at boarding school is hard enough. Balancing the needs of your liege-master and liegeman is impossible. 
As Davenham struggles to be both loyal and protective, he finds that he must consult the most despised student at school. But what use is it to seek advice on duties from a boy who seems incapable of mastering his own duties? 
This short story on faithfulness and friendship can be read on its own or as a side story in Waterman, an award-winning speculative fiction series set in an alternative version of the Chesapeake Bay region during the 1910s and during the future as it was envisioned in the 1960s. 
The Waterman series is part of Turn-of-the-Century Toughs, a cycle of alternate history series (The Eternal Dungeon, Dungeon Guards, Michael's House, Life Prison, Waterman, and Dark Light) about adults and youths on the margins of society, and the people who love them. Set in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as well as in a future that never existed, the novels and stories take place in an alternative version of America that was settled by inhabitants of the Old World in ancient times. As a result, the New World retains certain classical and medieval customs.
Available since: 06/29/2020.

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