The Black Sea Horde

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“HI, I’M NATHAN BLAKE. I don’t believe in luck. That’s just the way it is. It’s just not me. But Lady Luck, she didn’t agree, she believed in me.

It was years ago now, the day I embarked on my patrol.

I was seeing Lucy at the time and it was on a visit to her elder sister’s in Houston. We spent some time down on the waterfront, the Buffalo Bayou. I visited the Battleship Texas, and I was on board her for an age. She was a monster with ten fourteen inch guns and had seen action in both world wars. I’d read a few books and seen some films about the Navy and was interested, but was it for me? I was just a boy from landlocked Arkansas.

They’d always encouraged me towards construction. I know my family had in mind for me a degree in Civil Engineering; they could see Nathan the Architect. It ran in the family.

A naval recruitment facility sat on the quayside by the ship. I wandered inside and spent a while in there. You know how it is? When it happens, it happens quickly. I knew that day what I wanted to do.

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