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The Adventures of Quin and Makhabesh: Part 9: Return of the Snek

: Written by: Liz McGuire; Category: Fountain Pen Related; Published: 23 July 2025

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Part 9: Return of the Snek

400 Pennonia Orgona (Lilac)
“What’s wrong, Little Buddy? Weeks since we left the Ice Fields and you’ve hardly said a thing.” Essri glanced at the portal stones. Professor Eenness would arrive any moment. “I’m afraid to go home,” Essri said. I’m sure your mother will be happy to see you, Vika said. “They’ll be impressed by your adventures,” Quin added. “How many of them have learned to read and write?” Makhabesh asked. “That’th not a valuable thkill for thneks. Thtorytelling and thinging—” Just then, the Professor appeared at the center of the portal stones. “I have a confethion,” Essri said before fear could stop him.

401 Pennonia Balaton-kék (Lake Balaton)
Professor Eenness glanced at Essri, then the others. “Sorry, preparing for classes took longer than expected. Good to see you all again.” She moved closer to Essri, who held tightly to Vika. “I never talked to the elderth. I jutht repeated a rumor.” Professor Eenness laughed. “Is that your confession?” Essri nodded. “That’s nothing to worry about. If all sneks have magic, like you said, then there’s a good chance your rumor is true. And the pursuit of knowledge is always worthy.” Essri let out his breath. “I thought you’d be mad I wathted your time.”

...to be continued, every Tuesday.

The Adventures of Quin and Makhabesh: Introduction

: Written by: Liz McGuire; Category: Fountain Pen Related; Published: 09 June 2021

Background

For some bizarre reason, many fountain pen ink reviewers write pangrams as sample text. Pangrams are useful for learning to type, but they're somewhat absurd for demonstrating fountain pen writing - it's not as if the fountain pen will write differently depending on the letter of the alphabet. Anywho, it's a common practice.

So, when I started doing ink reviews, I decided to have fun with these pangrams. One of these pangrams is "The five boxing wizards jump quickly." Eventually, this morphed into stories about "the fifth wizard", who was given a name by the user "yazeh" on the Fountain Pen Network.