And we’re back to another transitional page. We’ll get back to the bigness soon-ish, promise. But hey, at least we’ve now got Gullet’s parents confirmed to be in existence. Huzzah. A few TL notes to tide you over to the next part follow, but thank you again to everyone who continues to support this story:


• “Guy-er-maid” comes from me mispronouncing the Irish name Diarmaid (not Dire-maid, but Dear-muhd).

• Easterferd is a corruption of Eisteddfod (Uh-sted-fuhd), a Welsh festival that celebrates… well, Wales.

• Daenerys was popularised by the television adaptation of Game of Thrones, but is a portmanteau of the Korean 대 dae meaning ‘greatness’, and the Welsh nerys, meaning lord/chief.

• Mytherforde is a portmanteau of the Northern England slang mither (pronounced my-fer, meaning annoyance/to be annoyed) and ford, a variant of the Anglo-Saxon word for “shallow river crossing”: it’s a common place name suffix in England.

• Wyverne is obviously a riff on wyvern, a dragon-like creature (characterised by only having two legs and wings, rather than four legs and wings) but Port Ddraig’s name comes from ddraig, the Welsh for dragon.

• Yukonly is a riff on UK-only because geoblocking gets on my nerves.

• Sarah-Elizabeetle Wardrobe is a reference to Sarah Elizabeth Wardroper, the first senior figurehead of what is nowadays called the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, and matron of St Thomas’s Hospital (a working-training hospital as part of King’s College University, London)