Desde el Mar

Jeronimo de Aguilar wrote this the night of his rescue in 1519, supposedly casting it into the sea afterwards. The text washed up on Gallo, where Alfonso de Soraluce found it in pristine condition.

I’m Reading…

While enslaved, his master offered temptations as a form of amusement. Aguilar refused them all, steadfast in devotion to the Hour of Noon, ‘whose Light provides all we require.’

I’ve Read…

In sunlight, he nurtures. In moonlight, he guards. The sea is his mirror, even in the empty night. But here, I confess; in the new moon silence, a beguiling voice washed through my porous soul. Even now, its dregs settle within.’ **Effect: **Memory: Fear **Mastery: **Lesson: Applebright Euphanies

Aspects