Kyngdom Survival Guide
*HORNSHAW TRAVEL DIARIES
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*HORNSHAW TRAVEL DIARIES
*HORNSHAW TRAVEL DIARIES
The Travel Diaries of a Very Disgruntled Cornelia Hornshaw
This train is incredibly bumpy. Idiot animals. Can’t invent a steam engine to save their lives. What they call a “train” is just a shoddy construction built of bark, being pulled along by four sullen badgers. Am currently in disguise, wearing sheepskin over my head. A wolf in sheep’s clothing, ha ha ha. Stupid animals are staring at me but I’m sure they don’t suspect that I am human.
Bob and Gog told me I should write in this journal more. They both insist that it will calm my nerves. “Lower your blood pressure,” said Bob, and Gog said, “Take the edge off.” Idiot scientists. I am surrounded by lesser intellects, everywhere I turn. What do animals even do all day? I have studied them for my entire life, and only become more and more convinced that they know nothing. I should have been an astronomer. At least the stars don’t move. You can study them for a lifetime and at the end you’ll have a neat equation that you can write on a piece of paper and frame. This messy natural world--it won’t stay in place long enough for me to figure it out.
A snow leopard just tried to serve me a cup of pine needle soup. I can’t deny the beast has a certain nobility to its look, but the soup? I almost threw up. How do these creatures bear to live like this? Foods I enjoy: cauliflower casseroles, Brussel sprout-and-bacon omelets, club sandwiches with lots of mayonnaise, prune pudding. Real human food. Puts hair on your chest (so to speak).
Headed to northern Kyngdom to search for fourth power in the Decoy Forest. No idea why it’s named that. Stupid forest. Stupid me, taking this ratty train on a fool’s mission. I’m embarrassed to even say this, but I’m not heading here because of any equations or scientific proofs—I’m heading here because I had a hunch. Because I had a dream. It’s very unlike me. But the dream was so strong. I saw it. I saw the fourth Power. It’s in the forest. I long to activate it. To have all four of the major Powers activated--what will happen? The world may burn. Stories have had worse endings.
Ha ha ha. Just joking.
submitted by Professor Hornshaw, The Awful Badger Express
(January 4, 2017 - 1:01 pm)
(January 4, 2017 - 1:01 pm)
I wouldn't know, but B.I.G.'s experiments can be pretty dramatic. The story sounds like shadow's, her being experimentally given giant hawk wings by B.I.G. and developing mostly-unrelated powers, (then) escaping with the help of an intern and now co-heading a rebellion. The Erasers sound like the wolf soldiers from the Lunar Chronicles, which is another book series I just finished. I don't know if you've read those, but they're also good.
(February 4, 2017 - 2:48 pm)
I'm pretty sure it was SOCS who gave her hawk wings. :)
(February 4, 2017 - 6:56 pm)
No, it was definitely BIG. It happened on the my mot... thread, just a few pages in.
(February 4, 2017 - 8:41 pm)
Actually, it was during the time when BIG was being taken over by the SOCS, so the line is a bit blurry. The SOCS has taken credit, but I'm not sure who exactly started the Homo Avian. What I know is that I was the first of the Homo Avians created by the SOCS. In this program, anyways.
(February 5, 2017 - 7:28 am)
It was a B.I.G. lab, though, right? You freed the gryphon on the way out, and Eli said the place she was infiltrating belonged to B.I.G., and she was going in for you.
(February 6, 2017 - 3:24 pm)
Yes, it was a BIG lab
(February 7, 2017 - 6:01 am)
I've read both books and must say I was writing about shadow far before I read Maximum Ride. I love the Lunar Chronicles, but Maximum Ride was a bit iffy. The first one was good, but the series went way off from what I was expecting. The Apocalypse? A bit far-fetched.
(February 5, 2017 - 7:31 am)
Out of charrie: I LOVE MAXIMUM RIDE!!! Hang on; shadow has fake wings
(February 23, 2017 - 8:00 pm)
I don't think shadow's wings are fake, but now I demand that her author get a pair. shadow the author needs a pair of hawk wings. Doesn't matter how big or if they're real as long as she gets them, just like my mom needs a centurion helmet and my brother needs antlers.
(February 24, 2017 - 4:01 am)
Your mom DOES need a centurion helmet! She totally does!
(July 7, 2017 - 3:38 pm)
She seriously does, but strangely, she doesn't want one. We're probably going to end up stealth-getting one and giving it to her for Christmas.
(July 7, 2017 - 8:45 pm)
Hiiiiisssssssss! A B.I.G spy!How dare he! MEOW
(June 22, 2017 - 4:06 pm)