Episode 19: Butcher’s Son

The next day, Michaela and Theodore went out on some delivery errands in Fullgreens. She still had her cap on, but she wore a light cotton dress with a shorter skirt that showed her ankles and wispy sleeves that bared her arms like the rest of the New England residents. Her exposed arms particularly showed …

Episode 18: Red Sky

The fabric merchant knew not to ask questions. Especially, when someone asks for black curtains, and that someone was an herbalist who seems like a humble peddler with a shop. The tacit rule of mourning in 1700s' Fullgreens dictated that people who cannot give proper burials are allowed to mourn by putting on black curtains. …

Episode 17: Nocturnal Girls

Looking at the moon outside the open lattice, Michaela feels her spirit drown in the sea of calm as the night air envelopes her like a cool second skin. The air's delicious weight sedated her senses more effective than anything Gale promises to his gullible guests in his apothecary. 'Speaking of sedatives...I still don't know …

Episode 16: Tantrums

(A portrait of Octavia in her youth) Smiling affectionately at Theodore, Octave gently scratched his chin with her index finger, "You'll let your mama have a night of respite from her duties, won't you, little cupid?" Ulda stroked his soft fluffy back, cooing "Don't go too soon, our love. We won't let you go too …

Episode 15: Karl

She was organizing his office belongings by her own categories--blank paper, leather bound books, rough draft manuscripts, and torn pages--in his private study. He didn't ask for it, but the room wouldn't be so messy if he had put in some effort and it was good opportunity for her to put her reading lessons into …

Episode 14: Ulda

After the moon revealed its pale nudity over the sea, the sailors for a moment paused whatever they were doing to stop and look up the celestial body in appreciation. The truth is that during their voyage, they were getting tired of the same pitch dark nights. Except for the tantalizing brevity of the shower …

Episode 13: Meathead

Across the maroon blue sky, a sinuous cloud coiled itself around the bleared white visage of the pallid moon. Echoing in the air was the haunted screech of an ominous bird with yellow topaz eyes, observing a bulky sized man running through the woods. In a muddy road, a hefty man holding a torch on …

Episode 12: The Dark Side

"You can't bear all the brunt of responsibility..." She could practically feel his gentle, sunny gaze, but she couldn't really smile back or say anything reassuring as she would like. Except...hope that he'll look at her a bit longer like that. Seeing that didn't really help at all, he folded his legs toward him and …

Episode 11: Michaela’s Identity Crisis

Suddenly the humid air was shrouded in dark, and clouds shaped like an embryo of a still-born, curled up, and the people scattered like ants at the sound of thunder. Hail, the size of cherries, began to descend from the sky and those who still were outside in the streets ducked their heads from the …

Episode 10: Bloody Salt

Michaela could have sworn that it was in a blink of the second when she heard a resounding crash and the customers spooked by the noise turned their attention to the indoors. Seeing a tall, energetic Gale suddenly blotted from sight especially caused an assemblage of girls who gathered closer to the window to see …