While I’ll be on hiatus for the foreseeable future, I’m not completely stopping to posting schedule. In particular, I’ll be providing reminders like this that all of the available Realmgard stories so far remain available to read online.
Here’s your chance to revisit the second Realmgard story: The Treasure of Oake Island.
The Sisters Darkstone return for another adventure.
With treasure map in hand, and an archaeologist uncle and genius cousin in tow, Kat and Dunstana set their sights on Oake Island to find the hiding place of the legendary pirate William Newgate’s lost treasure. But the Darkstones will soon learn that they aren’t the only ones with their sights on Oake Island. The ambitious young captain of the Red Wolf Pirates has a map of her own and she won’t take kindly to anyone else laying claim to the treasure she believes is rightly hers.
Read the second Realmgard adventure as the Sisters Darkstone find themselves on a collision course with the Red Wolves!
Chapter 1
“The field of archaeology, as Dunstana understands it, involves digging around in ancient ruins, or lost cities, or haunted mines, or other places that haven’t had people in them for hundreds and hundreds of years. That makes Uncle Jonas sort of like a pirate—only not at all like a pirate.”
Chapter 2
“DANGER: PIRATES AHEAD.“
Chapter 3
“Stupid bush.”
Chapter 4
“Look out! Bees!”
“They’re hornets!“
Chapter 5
“As she enters the cave at the centre of Oake Island, Kat expects to see a few things typical of most of the caves she’s explored in her time as an adventurer: cold, damp air; moss on the walls; mushrooms—possibly glowing in weird colours—on the ground; water dripping steadily off somewhere in the distance, bats hanging from the ceiling; spiders scurrying all over the place; weird, slimy lizards…
As it happens, they find none of those things.”
Chapter 6
“He devoted his entire life to tracking down William Newgate’s treasures before anyone else could steal it away from our family. But he’s too old now to keep looking, so he gave me the diary and his ship. He’s trusting me to find the treasure. I can’t let him down.”
Chapter 7
“Kat peers down to the lower walkways. She sees Dunstana, Jonas and the person whom she assumes is the captain of the Red Wolves being pursued up the walkways by a ginormous crab-thing.
She remains cautiously optimistic about the situation. It could, she decides, be worse. The crab could be even ginormous-er.
Or it could be two ginormous crab-things.”
Chapter 8
“Captain Kid, you’re a genius!”
Chapter 9
“But can we even say luck is a thing, at all? What if we’re just cast adrift in a cold, uncaring universe and everything is just some meaningless cosmic accident? But in such a cosmos, could we not create our own meaning and purpose?”
Epilogue
“Yeah. That’s great. I love you too, man.”
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