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Broken Voyagers
“Yeah,” Bette grinned at Tina’s enthusiasm for the veritable treasure in front of them, “This thing was more advanced than anything else made in Ancient Greece. A perfectly suited prediction tool for all these superstitious ancient Greeks. This mechanism could predict the positions of planets, the Sun and the Moon on any day of the year and could in effect predict the future.”
There was a marked wistfulness in Bette’s tone. If this machine had been in working order, maybe it could have foretold what lay ahead in the search for Melvin’s treasure.
*****
They had waved goodbye to Athens the night before, as the sky burned yellow, orange, red, pink and purple, a truly spectacular glimpse of the closing of the day as it sank slowly below the horizon. The crossing had been long on the slow and somewhat clumsy ferry boat.
They had reached the small islet of Antikythera a few hours later in the dead of the night. From the minute, they had arrived, however they were welcomed by the lovely and gracious Thalia, an unassuming quiet little Greek woman who could have featured on a tourist board postcard, clad as she was entirely in black with a headscarf.
They were going to stay with her, in her home as the tiny island was devoid of any tourist accommodation; no hotel or B&Bs. It was too remote for that, lying as it was on its own at the bottom of the Peloponnese peninsula, well outside the reach and interest of the overabundance of visitors who regularly visited this part of the world in the summer.
Their room was Spartan but they had been surprised to find out that despite the lack of air-conditioning, the room was fresh and airy and had brought a welcome relief from the warm air of the Mediterranean nights.
It was with a little reluctance that Bette had got up after waking up a little too early once again. However, the sight which welcomed her as she opened the wooden shutters made up for the slight disgruntled feeling she had experienced.
The little balcony which sprung from the full-length window, opened onto the most beautiful view and she soon forgot the early hour and their salty, bumpy, interminable journey across the Aegean Sea which had brought her and Tina here. She stepped out, her bare feet warming instantly on the terracotta tiles which had been slowly heating up in the morning sun.
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(14 votes, average: 4.79 out of 5)
Hi! You one of my favourite writers and i very glad and happy that you returned and finished this amazing story! Thank you very much!
After i reading i leave another comment which will be more about story plot.
Wow Kins this takes care of my weekend reading!
Will comment again when I’ve read it.
Thanks in advance for posting.
SG
So glad you finished this story! Thank you for sticking it out and giving us this story. Loved it
Hi Kins,
So glad to see this story! It will take some time to read it and i will leave a comment after i finish.
Hi, welcom back, Kins!
Thank you for finished this story! Ok, now i’m going to read it.
Hi, Kins
Oh my God, Kins, welcome back, after almost 2 years, it’s been a long time, but reading the whole story now I feel, the wait was worth.
You have given us a quite wonderful and interesting story full of adventures and riddles and full of love of my favorite couple Bette and Tina.
You ended the story in a very good way, but I feel as if I want to know more about them, if Bette gets the funding for her project in Mexico, the wedding, their partnership, what Tina does for a job… and many more things.
I hope we could read more new beautiful stories from you; I like very much your style.
Thank you very much and please, post other TIBETTE stories
P
Ok, i read again this story, this time the whole and i’m ready to leave another comment.
First – thank you again for finish the story.
Second – happy to see happy final -treasure was found, bitch Kelly got lost. And i must say i like how you got rid from her – like in life we can say with 100% probability what happened – or she sank or she was killed by shark.
Third – i like how you described Bette and Tina and love between them. I like it in all your stories (maybe with one exception – in Frozen beginnings i don’t like your Bette during the story, but in final she corrected :) )
So, welcome back and maybe in the future we can see another great story from you? I really hope so.
Hi Kins,
Really enjoyed the read, thank you so much.
A great Story and I loved reading it in one post. As an English Lady I really enjoyed your explanation of Cricket!
I would love it if you would now consider a Sequel with these two characters.
Thanks again for posting.
SG
Welcom back, Kins!
I was a silent reader a long time, but after you finished this story i must register to say – “Thank you for fantastic story! And i hope this story won’t be your last on this site!”
Totaly agree with MissOne – i hope this story won’t be the last from you too!
Hi Kins,
You took us trough a incredible journey! Full of adventures, little clues i tried to catch to find the treasure, the background on the history of those ships and of course the love between Bette & Tina.
I really hope you will continu with a sequel or a new story.
Thank you so much for posting the whole story after two long years!
In-cre-di-ble! Kins, thank you so much for returning to this story and for giving us such a glorious and sweet ending. You’re such a talented writer. What a wonderful plot with astonishing details to the treasure hunt.
I second the previous comments and hope you’ll find the inspiration (and time) to work on a sequel. Maybe Bette’s project in Mexico with a twist with some unexpected traces of a legendary Aztec treasure ;)
Well ive read it at last.So pleased you managed to finish this story.I know how long it was in conception and all the research you did for its authenticity.
A great read.Loved the shark sequence.Found it quite thrilling.
Not as thrilling as the love scenes that you tell so well between Bette and Tina tho ????
Look forward to the next story that you will write for us.
Don’t make it too long a wait tho
C.x
Kins…!!! Yay! It’s really you!!
^_^
First, am so happy to see your name appear again! :) been so long!! So Glad to hear from you! hope all are fine for you and your love one!
Second, OMG…! The Long story at once!! Woohooo… such a great treat! THANKS!!
And third…. LOVE your story! This is so worthy! Appreciate your hard work in researching, plotting, writing and sharing this wonderful story! Your writing style is getting more interesting and fantastic! It’s Long pages but I just can’t stop reading it – well there’s a moment where I wanted to stop reading when that low creature kidnap her (ugh.. I don’t want to spoil the story).. it’s too much for me.. >.<
Again… thanks for sharing your talent here! :) if you ever consider to publish this, do update us here! ;-)
Take care always Kins! ^.^
Just finished reading. It was a fun read. Thanks for the adventure.
Wow!!!! Such rich detail that it feels so true ,.. as if you have near lived these experiences ur self. And along w the romance of it, I learned so much about ship wrecks and diving. Do post it on AO3 as well to get a broader audience… it belongs to stories worth sharing :)