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For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Silas Merlion - August 28, 2025
1st of Sept, 1895 — Hogwarts Express
The only thing that couldn't fit inside his numerous trunks, packed full with his clothes and items necessary for the better part of a year, was Mama's warm embrace. That could only last as long as it lingered on the arms of the small boy who stepped into the train compartment. Silas set his small bag on the seat nearby and gazed out the windows, watching the smmoke plumes roll through the platform, until at last he noticed that another child had joined him. "Oh hello, I'm praying for a swift journey, how about you?"RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Cressida Rosier - August 28, 2025
The other child, a girl, had her face nearly pressed up against the window. She had watched the figures of her Governess and of Beatrice and her smaller children vanish and with amazement she now looked onto the landscape passing her by; it was finally happening. "No, the journey is marvellous. This is the most delightful day of my life," she said with emphasis, spun around and measured up the slight blonde boy with a quick and discerning eye.
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Silas Merlion - August 30, 2025
Silas stared at the peculiar, chipper girl for a moment, then closed his eyes. A moment later he opened them once more, and let out a long breath. The boy thought he could still be the good little sailor, taking orders with his chin up, but it wasn't to Dartsmouth that the train would take him. "I dreamt this once, but then I woke up and I was back in my bed at home. This time I open my eyes, and I'm still here."
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Cressida Rosier - September 2, 2025
She looked at him, puzzled by his tone of voice. "So, that's good! No waking up this time, we are finally going to Hogwarts. Merlin, all these years of having to watch my sisters and brothers leave to stay behind and be bored to death!", she cut a grimace, surveilling the boy for his reaction.
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Silas Merlion - September 3, 2025
"The Naval College would have suited me just fine," Silas told the girl, who didn't entirely look like one who could grasp the enormity of that statement. Her clothes looked rather fine, not roughspun at all, though with the dark colorings it was somewhat hard to tell. It must be her sex, then, too difficult for girls to grasp how much more the Navy had to offer a young man. "I was never bored when I could dream of going there. My father did, my brother did, it would have been me soon enough."
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Cressida Rosier - September 4, 2025
The mentioned naval college caused Ida's eye to widen in shock; she knew of it if only by her forbidden books. "Your father and your brother went to a muggle college?! So your mother is a witch and they are not?" she asked, and it was a leading question towards the finely dressed boy, who at first glance she had judged to be of appropriate standing to be an acquaintance.
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Silas Merlion - September 4, 2025
"My mother is a fine, upstanding woman, a Minister's daughter actually!" Silas said sharply, his narrowed eyes staring right through the girl's wide ones. How dare she accuse his mother of witchcraft, this darkly-attired child who knew nothing of his family lineage. Sitting back against the rigid seats of the train car, he let out a hasty breath, "I forgive you, though, for you know not what you do."
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Cressida Rosier - September 10, 2025
Ida's lips formed silently around the word "minister's daughter". The look on her face dropped from confusion into shock. "So you mean to tell me none of your family ever went to this school? They are all ...", she asked in hushed tone of voice and did not dare to finish the sentence, glancing around to see if someone was observing them, but in this compartment of the train they were alone.
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Silas Merlion - September 10, 2025
Silas didn't know quite to make of the hushed, shamed tones of the girl. Perhaps this was her first time speaking to a member of the nobility —so Grandfather was, which should make him one too— outside of whatever far-flung reaches of the country she hailed from. "I should think not. My uncle is an Old Oundelian, as is Grandfather, which befits a Baron. As for my other grandfather, he must have gone to seminary somewhere, I assume."
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Cressida Rosier - September 11, 2025
Now, on account of her forbidden reading habits and a rather too indulging governess, Ida understood some of the terms the boy used to describe his family, but she was not at all impressed. "My Grandfather served as Grand Wizard of the Gamot and holds the sigil ring to grant the unfathomable riches of house Rosier," she shot back proudly. "And my father will one day inherit it. We are house Rosier, progeny of Urizen the Cruel, slayers of dragons and giants and defenders of the law of righteous wizarding rule," she exclaimed, and although she must sound to the Muggle like a child spinning a tale of mockery, she was entirely serious.
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Silas Merlion - September 18, 2025
"That's quite a lot to be proud of," Silas remarked as best he could on the cold-blooded boasting. The girl said it with such rote clarity that the long list of titles must be important somehow, though he could not fathom for what. "Does that make you of royal blood, then, being descended from a wizard king? Wizards do have kings, or queens, right?"
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Cressida Rosier - September 26, 2025
"Yes indeed", Ida answered gravely and then she smiled with delight about how little the boy knew of their world. Kings and queens, ha! "What's your name? I am Cressida Rosier", and she extended her hand with all the gravitas a royal ought to exude.
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Silas Merlion - September 30, 2025
Silas couldn't be entirely sure how to behave in the presence of royalty, or one so descended. His lessons included such terms of address, and demeanor, though surely Miss Rosier herself was not a princess. Considering it wise not to presume too little, he took her hand and raised it close while dipping his head into a bow. "Silas Merlion, if it should please Your Ladyship."
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Cressida Rosier - September 30, 2025
"Pleased to meet you, Mr. Merlion." Against her better judgment, Ida was taken by the boy's pleasing manners, for that was a quality sorely missing from many young wizards but always present in the books she so loved to read; she even suppressed a giggle! Her governess would have something to say about the influence of too much reading on a girl's mind. "Are you really not excited for school? Are you afraid?" she asked, suddenly more sensitive in her tone of voice than before.
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Silas Merlion - October 4, 2025
"I know the Almighty gives us nothing we cannot handle, so this too I can face." That wasn't an answer to the question, exactly, but for the moment it lightened the boy's mind. He gave himself a little chuckle, then admitted to Miss Rosier, "I shouldn't mind being so small, either, for one day I'll be a man as tall as Papa. Taller, perhaps, all that is required is to have faith and He will answer."
RE: For the Voyage is Long and the Winds Don't Blow - Cressida Rosier - October 8, 2025
Ida arched one eyebrow and nodded silently along to the religious effusions of Mr. Merlion. "Yes, amen", she said and folded her hands in an unpracticed imitation of prayer, which she did not usually attend to herself; old wizard families tended not to pray, as they were too complacent thinking themselves just a small step below being His equal. "My papa is tall too", she supplied and added "But I don't think I shall be. Did Professor Valenduris come to give you the letter? He is monstrously tall!"