Hey all.  Roger Eichorn here yet again.

I’ve uploaded the second of two Bonus Scenes from my fantasy novel-in-progress, The House of Yesteryear (the first book in a trilogy called Three Roses).  It follows the events of the first Bonus Scene.

As before, I’m including the first few paragraphs of the Bonus Scene here.

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1546, Moon of Octumnel (Early Autumn), The Hataengale Sea

The sea was in Davyd Carverus’s blood.

His family hailed from a salt-swept village outside Moraelport, on the Isle of Stars.  Their father had sweated and cursed upon the decks of fishing yawls all his life, as his own father and grandfather—and likely his great-grandfather and great-great-grandfather—had done before him.  Upon their twelfth birthdays, each of Carverus’s three older brothers had left the Macarieli schoolhouse to join Father in hauling the nets.  Such was the life that fate and the world had prepared for Davyd Carverus—or so, with mounting anger and dread, he had believed.

He may have the sea in his blood, but not a trace of it was to be found in his soul—nor in his stomach, which rebelled against every evil undulation of the wicked waters…