Monday 6 April 2020

Why I am Saavedro

Myst III Exile is all about a fundamentally good man who loves his wife, his daughters and his people, and is taken away from them, exiled to the island of J'nanin. After twenty years he has solved the puzzle locks but he can't solve the last one and can't return to his home world of Narayan (which he believes is destroyed anyway). All he can do is dimly see what is left of it. He is embittered and seeks revenge, but if he is shown just a little kindness his core goodness reveals itself again.

I can relate to him, save the bitterness. I'm in exile too, though of a different kind. Saavedro wrote a diary. I'll write here, when I am alone with the sea and the clouds and the setting sun and am free to think on what matters most. 

A way of clearing my thoughts and it might just interest anyone who stumbles across it, like finding in a note in a bottle washed on the shore.