Santiago resnick6/20/2023 ![]() ![]() A huge Moondevil, two hundred pounds of muscle and sinew, saw him creeping across the roof and began howling. He moved slowly, carefully, trying not to make a sound-but then the wind shifted, carrying his scent to the creatures below, and all his precautions were for nothing. On the third night of the fifth month of the year 3407 of the Galactic Era, Danny Briggs had other things on his mind as he scaled the end of a long, low building, a cloth bag slung over his right shoulder. Like most kids, he'd grown up thrilled by legends about both, but that was the extent of his knowledge and his interest. A handful believe that he found the task of codifying the entire history of the Inner Frontier in verse too daunting, and that he simply gave it up and went off to live out his years in solitude.Īt the moment that he became a catalyst for history, Danny Briggs knew little of Santiago and even less of Black Orpheus. ![]() Others say that Santiago himself gunned him down. Some say he found an idyllic world on which to live out his life. Shortly after writing those words he disappeared forever. ![]() Not finished in the sense that it was complete, but done. ![]() Though Santiago's name doesn't appear in it, it is generally considered to have been about the notorious King of the Outlaws.Īnd with that, Black Orpheus history of the Frontier was done. THAT WAS THE LAST VERSE ever written by Black Orpheus, the Bard of the Inner Frontier. ![]()
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