The Promise of Shaconage, Ep 6, Season 3; Act 163, 164 & 165...
Timpoochee and his people live among the mountains, rivers valleys and forests of Shaconage, land of the blue mist. An experimental serial novel published only on the digital spaces and found at its website base: BlueSmokyMountains.com [https://bluesmokymountains.com/blog].
This is Episode number 6 of the podcast’s Season 3 and includes from the novel Acts 163, 164 & 165. You can follow along at BlueSmokyMountains.com [https://bluesmokymountains.com/blog]. You can also support this podcast with a gift at the link you find on this podcast's home page.
In our last few episodes, Timpoochee and his peace troop & trading party - found themselves captured by the Spanish along the shores of the northern Gulf of Mexico. They were taken first to the Spanish commander, General Galvez, and then transported by British diplomatic envoy, Colonel Dickson, to British Fort George where they met the British high military commander and British governor who recognized Timpoochee by his English name, Sam Story. He and his men were handed over for what was called, "safe keeping," to trader William Panton, with whom Timpoochee had dealings in the past.
In our episode, Timpoochee's friend Panton took him and his crew into Pensacola to treat them to what Panton called, the pleasures of Yonega.
In this episode they find themselves in a crowded, noisy British tavern as the battle for possession of Pensacola takes place outside. The environment inside the tavern is unlike any they'd ever seen before and populated by men and women as foreign to them as anyone could be. It turns out to be an explosive encounter in more than one way...