THE YOUNGEST NAVIGATOR
by Mary Louise Clifford
Smashwords Edition
Copyright 2011 Mary Louise Clifford
All rights reserved
ISBN: 978-1-4657-2768-8
Live in a palace? Me?
Airas's thoughts tumbled around in his head, as muddled as the crowd of jubilant men milling around him. He had just watched Prince Henry reward his father with a small leather pouch that clinked as it changed hands. Airas knew the sound of coins, and surely his father deserved them. After all, hadn't he designed and supervised the building of the splendid new caravel now anchored just offshore? Airas had watched for weeks as the ship took shape on the stocks in their patron's shipyard.