Hej hej hej everyone! I’ve been tardy with putting up chapters from the Little Dreamer, so this one’s a little late again. Chapter 4 of the Little Dreamer’s out, and has been for a while now, but here’s an excerpt:

“Chapter 4 card: Warship and Wire”
Nearly two weeks after she met the fortune-teller, the child entered a new village that was said to be very close to Algondiz. As she walked, she saw two men coming towards her on the Big Road.
The first, who was built like a warship, was forcibly dragging his companion by the arm, which stuck out like wire on an ironing board. Together, they sailed forward combatively, the prow of the warship man’s mighty nose steering its wretched enemy to battle.
“This will teach you now, for stealing an honest man’s ideas!” roared the warship man.
“Ooh, how nervous-making,” whined the wire man in mock terror.
“Shut your whimpering, or I’ll box your ears!”
“If you do, we’ll have more to reckon with when we reach the magistrate.” The wire man sneaked a crafty glance at his formidable foe.
By now, the two men had reached the child.
“Why are you going to see the magistrate?” she asked curiously.
“To get my money back of course!” answered Mr. Warship.
“Has he taken your money then?” asked the child sympathetically.
Mr. Wire snorted.
Mr. Warship ignored the snort. “You could say that! He stole an idea I came up with, and has been profiteering from it since. That’s as good as theft!” In his anger, his mouth foamed like the sea.

“Don’t you see how brilliant I was in thinking of making wooden buckets for water instead of metal ones that heat up in the sun?”
PS. I absolutely love it when someone uses the line “I’ll box your ears!”.
Read the rest of Chapter 4 here: http://littledreamernovel.com/4-warship-and-wire-men-part-1/
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