I should have posted chapter four over the weekend but I was busy having fun with my family. On Sunday we had a lovely day on the Monterey Peninsula. First we picnicked at Sunset Beach and took in the nature that lives there: sand dollars, clams, snowy plovers, sea gulls, cormorants and tree frogs along with a large variety of wild flowers. Then we went down to the Monterey Bay Aquarium for an afternoon.
These family trips spark ideas. There's a lot of California on Albion. For instance, the capitol, takes its name from a town that marks the southern boundary of the Long Valley. The real city is King City (named for Charles King) and mine is Kings City (for the castle up the mountain from the city). There are other borrowed landmarks from places I've visited (or want to visit).
Chapter Four is a little shorter than Chapter Three was. As you'll recall, Susan had a run in with a ghost and now it's Alfred's turn.