The Adventures of Solaire, Part VII: An Affair of Apples

By Noah Hoffmann

An ongoing series of fantasy adventures, “The Adventures of Solaire” tells the story of the dread pirate Captain Solaire Ravenheart and his tales all across Lorian, from the the steam-powered world of Dinas to the magical superpower of Archone. What follows is every deed of sabotage, back-stabbing, intimidation, piracy, demon-summoning, automaton-killing, government-toppling, crew wrangling, and general defiance he committed in his quest for his ultimate goal: to save his sister River.

In this section of the adventure, a crew member is found murdered by poison and everyone's favorite suspect is the misanthropic newcomer, which means it's up to Solaire to clear his own name.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Noah Hoffmann
• Release date: Jan 5, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463841815

Noah Hoffmann

A mild-mannered truck driver by day, I spend my nights writing mostly at an attempt to convince the last few shreds of sanity I have not to jump ship with the rest. When I'm not doing that, you can usually find me playing tabletop rpgs, raiding the "50 cents" section of bookstores, and generally committing similar acts to solidify my reputation as a "huge nerd." Otherwise, my time is spent caring for my loving and intelligent-deficit dog Slade and yelling at you for cutting me off in traffic.

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The Incredible Yet Accurate Adventures of the Dread Pirate Captain Solaire Ravenheart,

Otherwise known as

The Adventures of Solaire

Part VII: An Affair of Apples

By Noah Hoffmann

Published by Noah Hoffmann and distributed by Smashwords

Copywrite 2020 by Noah Hoffmann

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Other series by Noah Hoffmann:

Creepy America

A horror mystery series set across the United States

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Part VII: An Affair of Apples

The Incredible Yet Accurate Adventures of the Dread Pirate Captain Solaire Ravenheart,

Otherwise known as

The Adventures of Solaire

Part VII

An Affair of Apples

If  you ever had a moment where you did something wrong and felt stupid, or insisted on a fact only to be proven absolutely, positively incorrect, you only need to look to the small isle of Broi Shaine to feel better about yourself. Over the course of their existence within the lands of the Zygian Federation, the island has done such embarrassing things as insist that a rooster and a chicken  are completely different species of animals, set fire to their crop fields in the belief that their own scarecrows were the scouts of an incoming army, and have fought no less than five separate civil wars over the pronunciation of their own name. Normally at this point, I would pause to give the target of my mockery a compliment and follow it up with a witty metaphor, thereby making my teasing appear to have been made in good-spirited jest and saving myself from insulting a potential reader, but as the literate population of Broi Shaine must be smaller than the number of breadcrumbs left behind by a hungry dog, I feel safe not doing so.

However, the island did manage to produce the strange gem that was the scientist-philosopher Daske Tamm, and while he was the cause of several moments of embarrassment (he was very insistent on the whole rooster-chicken thing), he was also the source of one of my favorite fables ever.

One day, the story goes, Daske was walking down the streets of his village when his neighbor, Dul Winslow, came out and asked for his help. A large rock was situated in the middle of