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Newtons Sleep
Plot
Book One: The Rituals of the King
Chapter 0: The Waste Book
As above, so below, War on Earth has begun to mirror the actions of the War in Heaven - the struggle of the holy houses of Christ and their their eternal Adversary shape worldly events. In all things you may read the influence of the divine and of the damned.
A boy sits under a tree, dreaming of the near future, of books and writing, as something falls onto him. Not an apple as it would later come to be told, but some sort of unknown substance. As he examines the unknown substance, his mind flashes forward to the life his life would become, not mere books and writing, but coins, and a king who does not yet exist. He looks upwards and sees a tangle of limbs. Climbing the tree, the boy finds a man as black as night with no face, his head a solid sphere, with branches struck through him. No, not a man. An angel. He touches the angel, examining it, kicking it. The angel clings to him, envelops him, swallows him whole, and the boy once again catches glimpses of his life to be - parliament, coins, infinitesimals, optics. Looking at parts of his life, the boy is repulsed, but as he sees the entirety of his life he asks the angel what is to happen. The angel says that he has but one mission given by his creator, the destruction of the Adversary. The boy offers to help. All he must do is live his life, letting the angel live in his shadow. The angel insists that others would dare not strike him. The boy awakes, with all memory of what was found in the branches gone, left only with his dream of a perfectly ordered book.
Chapter 1: Killer of Sheep
Nathaniel Silver stood in the crowd on a dreary January morning, happening to be in Whitehall during the execution of Charles I. He didn't wish to come into town on that day, but the wound on his head had gotten worse, requiring him to be in the area. It was his duty, so he thought, as one of the soldiers who fought and killed to make this happen to see this through. As the king was theatrically killed, there were cheers and wails, people would claim that there were portents of various types, falling stars, beached whales, the severed head talked for minutes afterwards. In later years Silver would write that the last was certainly false, having not noticed it at the time, along with his other writings on history and philosophy. Finally, after spending some time in contemplation, he returned to his troop. As he went, he carried with him three things as he ever did. The pain in his head, the scraps of paper with his thoughts and musings about life, and a small wooden box.
Silver travels out of London for a few days, though it feels like it stretches on for much longer. At last, in the twilight fog, he meets up with Sir Denzil Lynch and is fondly ushered back to the latter's estates. Sir Denzil informs him of people appearing recently, in dribs and drabs, calling themselves Silverites, followers of his. Silver is surprised, and denies it - he has no followers. But Sir Denzil insists that they call themselves such. The two dine at Lynch's manor, and Silver is introduced to his young daughter, Alice Lynch, Sir Denzil telling her that him and Silver are going to conduct an experiment together on this land. [--Comment about how Silver mentions his secret is Alchemy and Denzil laughs it off? P15--] After dinner the two of them discuss business; Silver thinks that Sir Denzil is underestimating the risk - that even though the fighting is over the two may very well be caught - previous experiments were tried and crushed. Silver brings up the possibility that he preaches blasphemy or sedition on accident, as it's easy to do. Denzil waves it off. He trusts that Silver is a good man on this earth, and so long as Silver is discrete these charges can be made to disappear. Finally, with trepidation, Silver relents, and the two negotiate terms for a settlement on Denzil's land.
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Sir Denzil Lynch - And old knight who offers to let Silver live on his land and grants him and his "followers" protection.
Alice Lynch - Daughter of Denzil Lynch].
Silverites - a group of people that considered themselves the followers of Silver.
Winstanley (Newtons Sleep) - Contrived to "piss on his neighbours one by one".
Major-general Goffe - Considered by Sir Denzil to be a pussycat who is easily paid off and would do whatever was asked of him.
Notes
Leveller - fill in more maybe?
John Lilburne - rots in goal, nobody will mistake Silver's enterprise for his. Silver heard both him and Winstanley speak and thought about following each.
