Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Part One Return to Drift House

One Via Messenger

Two Lost Cities

Three The Caretaker

Four The Charles Force

Five Caught in the Act

Six The Drawing Room

Seven Up a Tree (Without a Paddle)

Part Two Separated at Birth

Eight Into the Woods, or the Second Solo Expedition of Charles Oakenfeld, Esq.

Nine Say Hello to Bjarki

Ten Stealing Fire

Eleven The Tempest

Twelve Wendat

Thirteen Osterbygd

Fourteen Time Blinks

Fifteen The Amulet of Babel

Sixteen The Wanderer of Days

Seventeen The Parrot Speaks

Eighteen Return to Drift House (Redux)

Nineteen Karl Olafson

Part Three In and Out of Time

Twenty Babel

Twenty-One Food for Thought

Twenty-Two In the Tower

Twenty-Three Closing the Jetty (part 1)

Twenty-Four Closing the Jetty (part 2)

Twenty-Five Row the Boat

Twenty-Six The End of Osterbygd

Epilogue 1492: The Captain and the Cabin Boy

Charles’s Glossary of Affected Words

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