Alcander's Fantastic Voyages: Day 1

I have been summoned.

I returned to point of origin to find a summons waiting for me, calling me back to Greece to undergo the Rites of Acceptance.

I do not know why. Although there is no doubt that I have done many mighty deeds in my time here, I do not know that I have achieved enough, or done so against impossible enough odds, to be deserving of full rank in the Herecletian Brotherhood.

But here I am. Not only was a message left, but a ship as well. For Athens to have spared a ship for me seems to mean that this is a matter of some urgency. But the captain knows nothing. He assures me that my father is well, so it cannot be his death that calls me back. And the ship is not my fathers, so it is not his will that I return. And the ship does not belong to the Knights, either, but only to the common army.

What would the common army want with me?

It is a mystery. Perhaps it is tied to the lamp, which clearly the gods sent me. Perhaps, in returning to Greece, I will finally be among the honest men of my order, and can find peace and a band of true warriors with whom to battle the evil we found in the mines. A proper group of Paladins to replace this band of cowards and merchants.

For now, I must wait. I hate waiting. But the sea breeze already smells more like home, and the men of the ship speak the proper language, and mind a ship the correct way.

And what a way it is. It is truly a sign of the favored status of Greece that only our ships may command the wind, blasting by those of other, lesser races who must wallow about and wait until the wind might be blowing the direction they desire. It fills my heart with pride to see their mouths gape in awe, unable to fathom the speed of our ship.

Those heathen barbarians likely travel the entire distance to a place, too. It is a wonder that those horse-riding imbeciles every made it out of their own back yard.

The captain says it will be two days before we return home. Two days until the world sounds right again, smells right, and I can finally speak to someone truly honorable again.