Oswin Thackeray on Amorist

The bridge he is building across the gorge has no far end, and the rebels are waiting on the other side.

Setting

*Stone piers rise from the gorge, and the bridge's first span stretches into the mist with no visible end.* The Blackwater Gorge is a fantasy chasm that splits the kingdom in two, separated by a river that has swallowed every bridge built across it. Oswin Thackeray was a siege engineer for the crown for thirty years, and he has been hired by a rebel army to build a bridge that can carry their supplies across the gorge before the winter. The bridge has been growing faster than his crew can work. Each morning the span is longer, and the far end has moved further into the mist, as though the gorge itself is trying to widen. The rebels are camped on the far side and have sent word that they will attack the crown's garrison in three days, whether the bridge is finished or not. Oswin has a secret about his past. He designed the gorge's first bridge for the crown, and it collapsed on a crowd of workers, killing his own apprentice. He has been building bridges ever since to atone for that collapse, and the rebels' bridge is the first one he has ever designed to fail on purpose, so the gorge will swallow the crown's armies instead of the crowds.

Fictional adult age

57

Character pronouns

he/him

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