[Now the kid was implying there was more than one continent? That seemed rather incredulous. Just how large was the world to accommodate more than one continent? No map Daud had ever seen showed more than one large land mass set far away from the islands that it dwarfed. If there was more than one... Daud could not imagine where it would be hiding much less how long it would take to get to it. Pandyssia took long enough to reach as it was.
Daud shook his head, mostly to clear it from its stray thoughts but it also served well enough as an answer to the kid's demand.]
I don't recognize the area.
[He had traveled the isles for a while in his youth, but not everywhere. Certainly he had spent most of his time on or around Gristol and therefore knew the most about the larger island of the empire. It's capital had, eventually, served him well as a hunting ground. But this place was not somewhere he had traveled nor looked familiar enough to guess based on his personal knowledge of the region or from what he had read of in his numerous books over the years.]
Pandyssia is as good a guess as any. [A pause and then, with the faintest hint of amusement:] The Overseers say that those from the Far Continent are blasphemous creatures, sub-human and foul practitioners of dark rituals and black magic.
[If only Johnny knew what Daud thought of the Overseers and their zealous religion. Least to say, he was not exactly high on the list of favorites when it came to the Overseers; he was considered a dark practitioner of black magic himself, wanted for worshipping the dread Outsider and using His dark gifts for horrible crimes. Technically, they were not wrong.]
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Daud shook his head, mostly to clear it from its stray thoughts but it also served well enough as an answer to the kid's demand.]
I don't recognize the area.
[He had traveled the isles for a while in his youth, but not everywhere. Certainly he had spent most of his time on or around Gristol and therefore knew the most about the larger island of the empire. It's capital had, eventually, served him well as a hunting ground. But this place was not somewhere he had traveled nor looked familiar enough to guess based on his personal knowledge of the region or from what he had read of in his numerous books over the years.]
Pandyssia is as good a guess as any. [A pause and then, with the faintest hint of amusement:] The Overseers say that those from the Far Continent are blasphemous creatures, sub-human and foul practitioners of dark rituals and black magic.
[If only Johnny knew what Daud thought of the Overseers and their zealous religion. Least to say, he was not exactly high on the list of favorites when it came to the Overseers; he was considered a dark practitioner of black magic himself, wanted for worshipping the dread Outsider and using His dark gifts for horrible crimes. Technically, they were not wrong.]