Owiene’s Place

The Haun’hai system of the Galatian empire contains some of the most fascinating ruins of that sector, especially those structures which have been built since the system’s mysterious transformation years ago near two key locations – Crashton and Lake Pajon’Gai. The hamlet, known as Aerishael, along the northern shores of Pajon’Gai has been miraculously preserved, though its site registers as over 18,000 years old. It’s newest structure built in honor of its most famous citizen, Owiene Carr, finished construction only a few years ago and sits on the island of that lake that was the starting point of an epic adventure that made Haun’hai a major tourist destination.

The Pajon Palace was built by the surviving crew of the SS Storge and is today the home of Ms. Carr who is the proprietor of a once ignominious tavern that served as both watering hole and sometime inn for sky traders, pirates and locals of Haun’hai. Owien’s industrious nature and now renown ale, deserts and pies made from the cinnamon sweet Percillion fruits imported by the Galatians left her little time for other details. It was for this reason when she was too busy to name the place that locals of Aerishael simply dubbed it – “Owiene’s Place” – and that name stuck. So, it has been and to this today. Though much larger now than its origins the tavern has become a major tourist attraction due to the epic tale of love, loss and salvation that it survives to tell in pictures, artifacts and people who haunt it.

Author’s Note: This dedication is for my dear soulmate. Though I have many friends who have been instrumental in encouraging me to put down into writing the stories in my heart, it all began with one person who believed in me when such things were far from my thoughts. Though the novel, “Seven Words” is altogether its own world and its story is not allegorical to real persons or places, it should come as no surprise that some small part of those who inspire me most in life might find their way into it.