Back from vacation.

I really expected to write more on vacation, but I spent most of it reading, going to museums, playing tourist, and having an unexpectedly emotional family thing take up a few days. I reread the Newsflesh trilogy.

I'm trying to kick my brain back into gear, but the jetlag is going to take a bit.

Two fictional rivers

The first river originates in the high mountains of the west, flowing over jungle highlands and plateaus until it crashes in a waterfall more than 200 feet high and more than a mile and a half wide down into a broad freshwater inland lake, surrounded by a prosperous city. It flows further east and south, joined by two tributaries from the north, through farmland and lowland mountains, until it reaches the sea, where another prosperous city, recently conquered, lives. To the north is another river system, thoroughly hidden in a dense forest.

The second river flows from north to south, along the southern edge of a medium-sized continent. It spreads into a broad river delta at its lower end, hemmed in on both sides by recent volcanic activity, with deeper rivercourses interspersed with dense swamps. It is a hive of ecological activity, especially at the river mouths where the nutrients from upriver feed the complex ecosystems of the shallows and the reefs that grow out from the swamps. Constantly shifting, not easily mapped, the delta is both bountiful and treacherous.

Fiction: High society, duelist

Prompt: formal slavery society, public events.

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