Chapter 3
Chapter three
The Nethenabbi Affair
by our trusted correspondent, Scaleheart
The Nethenabbi clan will build a nest in Galsopshire, which will be called Netherfield.
The Nethenabbis presently have only one nest in Kinella, on the northern coast; this acts as a port for their shipping empire across the Potune Ocean.
With ingenious breeding methods, their dragons are less nest-tetchy than any other.
Thus they have made their fortune in dragon-assisted importing, as their dragons can roam farther from their nests without rampaging.
However, their reputation in Kinellan social circles has withered. They rarely participate in derbies, and when they do, they perform poorly and are still snubbed. Just last month, I witnessed one of the patriarchs of the Nethenabbi clan being ignored at a ball.
It now seems they are trying to rectify this.
Mr. L— Nethenabbi (who will be the master of the new nest, Netherfield) has announced it will not be another depot on their shipping chain.
(A prudent decision, as Galsopshire has no centers of industry to recommend it.) No, this will be a nest focused on agriculture and integrating into Kinellan dragoneer circles through derbies.
He has participated in Kinellan derbies a few times before, but has never showed particularly well.
(Most memorably, he was a key player in the incident that resulted in the loss of the arm of Mr. C—.)
I wish him luck, while wondering if there is enough luck to make up for his flighty and distracted manner.
Perhaps he doubts himself, too, as he has said he will not be taking the surname Netherfield, but keeping Nethenabbi.
Perhaps he is already trying to distance himself from this doomed project, or perhaps he simply doesn’t understand the traditions of Kinella.
Mr. Nethenabbi will be accompanied by his sister, a Miss N— Nethenabbi.
She is accomplished at hatch-mothering, having cultivated eggs in the Nethenabbi holdings in Fellarik and Azazres.
Suitors will no doubt flock to her; she has hinted at her intention to marry this year.
With the prestige of the Nethenabbi clan, what dragoneer could refuse?
Mr. L— Nethenabbi without a doubt will also field courtship salvos.
It will be a race between the siblings to see which makes an alliance with a Kinellan house first.