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houseofhurricane · 4 years ago

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ACOTAR Fic: Bloom & Bone (2/32) | Elain x Tamlin, Lucien x Vassa

Summary: Elain lies about a vision and winds up as the Night Court’s emissary to the Spring Court, trying to prevent the Dread Trove from falling into the wrong hands and wrestling with the gifts the Cauldron imparted when she was Made. Lucien, asked to join her, must contend with secrets about his mating bond. Meanwhile, Tamlin struggles to lead the Spring Court in the aftermath of the war with Hybern. And Vassa, the human queen in their midst, wrestles with the enchantment that turns her into a firebird by day, robbing her of the power of speech and human thought. Looming over all of them is uniquet peace in Prythian and the threat of Koschei, the death-god with unimaginable power. With powers both magical and monstrous, the quartet at the Spring Court will have to wrestle with their own natures and the evil that surrounds them. Will the struggle save their world, or doom it?

A/N: This chapter, from Tamlin's perspective, required a lot of careful thinking and revising and research on my part, specifically on whether abusers can ever recover and what that looks like. Personally, both in real life and in the ACOTAR world, I do believe that recovery is possible, but that abusers must admit the harm they have caused, reckon with themselves to create new patterns of thinking and behavior, and make amends if possible. This has shaped the way I've written Tamlin here and in future chapters. I do think that in the ACOTAR novels and fandom, Tamlin gets criticized for his behavior in a way that other characters with similarly abusive patterns of behavior (Rhys, Nesta, Eris) do not. I also think that redemption is possible for him. All that said, if you don't agree, or if you find Tamlin triggering, I completely understand. You can find all chapters here.

There are footsteps in the darkness, and Tamlin follows them, the breeze disappearing from his skin as he’s surrounded, pulled from the scent of flowers by walls of stone. It is impossible to gnash his teeth in this form so he growls instead, the sound amplified and echoing in the hollow chambers of his estate. Once, they were full of his courtiers and servants, studded with visiting nobles who sought his favor or his counsel.

Now, only Rhysand waits for him, at home in the darkest corner of the great hall.

“What do you want?” Tamlin asks, his voice clotted, scraping his throat.

“I’d like to send Elain Archeron to your court as my emissary.”

“Running short of spies, Rhysand?”

“If I wanted to spy on you, would I be here asking your permission?” He drawls the words but Tamlin has been listening in the forests, his hearing even sharper in this form, and he can hear the slightly anxious pitch in the man’s voice. And it’s curious that he would send someone, let alone his mate’s sister, as if he hadn’t ordered Lucien to make regular visits to Spring. “I’d like to be assured that she’ll be safe.”

“My lands are none of your concern but the dangerous creatures have all been put in their places.” He feels a fraction of his old self when he’s hunting, the mission clear and certain. He loves the feeling of his body obeying his commands, the only being in Prythian in whom he can put his trust.

“I need your word that she will be safe here.”

“You think I’ll lock her up in a ruined castle and throw away the key?”

Rhysand, damn him, simply takes a look around, the gloom deep enough to make his tan face pale as milk.

“Does Lucien stay here when he visits you?”

As if he doesn’t know that Lucien winnows himself to that castle in the human lands when their meetings and councils are over, preferring to spend his time with that Band of Exiles than stay a night in his ruined bedroom, or search the estate for another room that managed to escape its High Lord’s wrath.

Sometimes, he looks back at the being he was during the war with Hybern and feels no spark of recognition. Sometimes he has to coax himself to admit that it was he himself at those moments, starting a war over a woman he knew, even then, did not love him. And sometimes he does not force himself to recognize the truth of his own actions because the realization is always an explosion inside of him, blinding and horrifying, destroying another part of him every time he realizes what he became. What he is, still. It’s partly for this reason that he avoids the face he wore in those days.

“When would you like the Archeron sister to come to my court?” As if he doesn’t know who Elain is.

“She would like to arrive as soon as possible. I believe she stayed up last night packing her trunks.”

“So eager to get away from you?” The pleasure he feels at saying the words catches in the throat of the beast, unused to speaking like a lord, smooth words concealing the whirling of his mind.

“All the members of my court are free to go where they wish.”

Rhysand must really want this outcome, to tread so lightly. Usually his response would have been along the lines of Fuck you, you imprisoned my mate, and now Tamlin watches as he coaxes his mouth into a line resembling a smile’s curve and, as he so often does, picks a nonexistent piece of lint off his tunic.

“What do you require for her?”

“Nothing too impossible, I think. A bed, a bathing-room, a door that locks. A guarantee that she’ll be fed at regular intervals. I did mention that Lucien and Queen Vassa would be joining Elain, didn’t I? So it will be three of everything.”

“Such confidence in their desire to reside here.”

Rhysand’s lip curls. “If you think this is impossible--”

He should decline, insist again that these lands are him, but compulsion pulls at him, a heady thrum.

“It will take at least a month to make this estate adequate to your needs.”

“Elain would like to be here sooner.”

“There is a cottage in the village.”

“If I assist?”

Tamlin lets the growl build in his throat. He’s not sure which is worse: Rhysand knowing the exact layout of his home, or having Rhysand’s people build it because Tamlin himself isn’t sure who would dedicate this kind of service to him, now that they’ve seen the rot at his core. At least they still fear him enough to leave his jewels untouched, or else are unable to breach the surrounding wards.

“Am I to believe that you would send your precious artisans to build the home of your enemy?”

“I’ve given you reason enough to believe anything of me,” Rhysand says, and the words are transparent, infuriatingly so: a person could see that he was truly good if only they were in the mood to look. That Tamlin had allowed himself to believe otherwise for centuries gnaws at him, even as he wants to believe that this decent version of the male is just another mirror, a trick of the light.

“If we begin with the kitchens and three bedrooms, a week will be enough.” He shifts from paw to paw. “Ask Elain what she would like to look at, what colors she prefers.”

“Elain likes the colors of flowers. Soft and delicate furnishings.”

“And she cannot speak for herself?” The words come out harsh, grating, nothing like the tone he’d envisioned in his head, which would, all on its own, indicate the irony of Rhysand taking an Archeron sister for granted, presuming her words. He would say, if there was anybody who cared enough to ask, that after so much time in this form, he has lost the art of modulating his tone.

“I’ll ask her,” Rhysand says, soft and dangerous, ��my precious artisans and builders will arrive tomorrow at first light, then. Should I advise them to look for you in this form?”

“I’ll look as civilized as you.” He manages to match Rhysand’s tone. The control required is exquisite. “Though I’m sure you’ll be around to make sure they survive the morning.”

“Prove me wrong, then, Tamlin.”

Of course, Rhysand disappears before Tamlin can lunge for him, his claws snapping on nothing but laden air. The marble floor, dull with inattention, pounds his paws and then his joints as he, the beast outside and inside, hits the floor. The foundation of the estate rumbles in complaint.

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There are no mirrors to allow Tamlin to observe the face of his Fae form, but his arms and legs are only skin and muscle. If he were slaughtered and prepared as a meal, the diners would complain about the gristle of him, the sharpness of the knife required to make the meal palatable.

He finds a clean shirt and pants and boots which are not spangled with embroidery or jewels, and though the fabric gives off a musty scent, he doubts that Rhysand, his artisans, or his builders will get close enough to judge the stink. Tamlin knows the way that gossip travels across the seven courts, imagines there are stories about his haunting of the Spring Court forests, that they’ll only be surprised he doesn’t appear with fur and claws or else covered in dirt. With this in mind, he scrubs his face and body with water and the last gritty bits of soap until the skin squeaks clean under his fingertips.

After centuries of seeing his own reflection, Tamlin knows how he might look, but no matter what he envisions, the result is disappointing. Any beauty undone by the rot inside, which tears inside of him, an animal gnashing its teeth. The reason he prefers to be transformed, the creature outside matching the way he feels inside. He knows that he deserves this punishment, does not stop imagining Feyre’s wasted body, the sound of her retching, Amarantha destroying that weak and beautiful human frame while he was so careful to be still and silent. He deserves this feeling for Hybern, for calling Feyre a whore, for her sisters in the Cauldron and all the hurt he caused. The list is endless and he recounts each item on it, filling up the hours when his forests are silent, when all the monsters within are too afraid of him to stir.

Despite all his years as a warrior, he never thought that he was such a terror. For a time he tried to blame Feyre for this unleashing, then Rhysand, but too soon there was only the stark reality that he himself was the only one to blame. How he’d never noticed the horrible thing inside his chest is beyond him, a question that will tear him up for all the centuries remaining to him.

Still, in spite of the punishment he is owed, Tamlin is tired of lurking in shadowy corners, in the parts of his forests that made even Amarantha’s creatures hesitant. He does not know what will happen when he is not alone, but finds himself thinking that even the harshest punishment would be better than this life.

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The builders arrive, the artisans and gardeners and even an architect, all peering over Rhysand’s wings to get a glimpse of Tamlin. He can see disappointment in her eyes, that he is all High Fae, and for a moment he wants to tell them how strange it felt, to spend the night so naked and unarmed. Then he thinks the sight of his estates will generate pity enough.

Then, beside Rhysand, the Morrigan appears, holding the hand of Elain Archeron, who does not break his gaze, not even when he feels the length of the stare, the blaze of his own eyes.

“Elain wanted to assist in the gardens,” Rhysand says, by way of introduction. “She has quite the talent for arranging flowers.”

“I see you will put anybody in your court to work for you,” he snaps back, just to watch the Morrigan lurch toward him, her beauty gilded with her fury. Rhysand’s court will bark at any slight towards their High Lord.

“I have heard about the famed beauty of the gardens of the Spring Court and I wanted to see them for myself.” Elain Archeron has dipped into a curtsy, the pearls at her ears gleaming in the first rosy fingers of dawn, her gown the colors of sunrise, rosy pink and coral and orange delicately interwoven. When she looks back up at him, her face is all serene, except her eyes, which stay fixed on Tamlin, assessing his expression as if a face could be a trove of knowledge. All he’s ever heard about this sister is her beauty, her kindness, her sweet softness, as though she were a statue made of sugar, but now she regards him like a goddess, piercing and certain amidst the glow of herself.

“Spoken like my emissary.” Rhysand nods at her and she aims a thin-lipped smile at him. “Elain will walk your gardens and propose a design for them. I think you’ll find her taste to be exquisite. And Laella has come with her proposal for renovations to your estate.”

The architect steps forward, scrolls in her hands, which she unfurls and explains to Tamlin without so much as a greeting. While she speaks, he realizes two things: that she is a dryad, and that her plans for the estate are lovely. She will polish the marble, working with the existing design, but add windows and open-air spaces so that those in residence can enjoy the breezes and the sunlight without having to step outside. Tamlin has never been to the palaces of the Night Court, but he cannot imagine that this design is a copy, and as the architect’s fingers scratch over her parchment, he finds himself nodding along. Laella has erased the border between indoors and outdoors. In such a house, he would not feel so surrounded by stone, so deprived of air. He could even imagine wanting to stay, always.

And if, in the end, he cannot bear to stay inside, it will give him a certain satisfaction to watch Rhysand’s reaction to the ruin.

“The complete renovation will take at least a month, but I will have a better estimate once I inspect your home and have your approval for changes.” The dryad’s voice rasps and moans, wind in the branches and the strain of the tree trunk beneath. Tamlin can feel Rhysand’s eyes on him, waiting for a slight, a show of prejudice against this faerie, not a High Fae, and while he aims a smirk at the other male, he nods over the plans.

“You are aware that I’m a beast?” He points, at random, to a large room made brighter and more spacious in the plans.

“Our High Lord has told us stories,” Laella tells him, a wisp of deep green hair escaping from its arrangement, her gray skin flushing in spite of her professional composure when she sees the talons that appear on the backs of his hands, summoned without a thought. “He also said you saved his life.”

“I imprisoned his mate in this place,” he counters, his voice rising, the artisans and builders and architects no longer straining to hear. Rhysand and the Morrigan have taken subtle steps to block Elain Archeron from view. “I had her sisters kidnapped by the king of Hybern. Ransomed my lands for an obsession with a female who rightly wanted nothing to do with me.” He can hear the ragged edge in his voice, the growl, and fears that in a moment he may turn animal again, that he has been cursed with an unwilling transformation without his knowing, an inversion of his powers.

“A truly evil person never believes they have done wrong,” Elain Archeron says, from behind Rhysand’s wings. Her voice is soft but pitched to carry. “From what I’m told, these lands are filled with beings who do evil deeds with no remorse for the suffering they leave behind.”

Rhysand has turned towards her, staring as if he’s never heard Elain say so many words. Everyone is staring at her. Tamlin feels the weight of their eyes fall off his shoulders, heaves a breath.

“Anyway,” she continues, more hesitantly, as if she’s aware that everyone is watching her, “I have to believe that the path to becoming evil is hard to distinguish. That we could get there with the best intentions.”

She flushes and goes silent, and he notices that she said we instead of you, and he thinks that maybe Rhysand’s sister-in-laws are not as moon-eyed over him as the rest of his court. The Morrigan squeezes her hand, and for a second Tamlin almost smiles; seeing the Morrigan out of battle and her armor will never stop amusing him, like seeing a jungle cat begin to sing.

“Are the plans to your liking, Tamlin?” Rhysand asks once it is clear that Elain will not say anything else. “I will pay for the renovations in exchange for one favor.”

“I have enough gold in my stores to compensate your people fairly.” He learned in the cradle, never to accept a favor as payment, especially without detailing very particular terms.

“You don’t know what I’ve promised them in payment.”

Tamlin growls and nods his head toward Laella.

“I offer double what your High Lord promised,” he snarls. “So long as you finish within the month.”

Those smiles are the first he’s received in years. No matter that he had to purchase them. The gold was sitting in his vaults, unused.

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Hours later, Tamlin stalks the grounds of the estate. The builders have already begun basic repairs under Laella’s guidance, the artisans scouring each room for pieces which might fit the dryad’s vision. Noise echoes throughout the halls, a mirror effect that leaves him dizzy. He has spent too many days in the forest.

“Have you come to see my plans?” Elain Archeron asks, appearing at his elbow, breathing hard.

“You followed me.” He growls, wanting to scare her off. No good can ever come of an Archeron on his trail. He’ll tell this to himself until it feels true.

“Your gardens are too beautiful to be so overgrown.” Again, no malice and no flattery, only gentle confidence. “I’ve been making all kinds of plans”

“You want to change everything.”

“You have an opportunity to have the greatest gardens in all of Prythian, maybe all of this world, and you are letting them go in favor of thorns and rot. As a gardener, I’m honestly offended.”

Tamlin stops mid-stride and watches her, assessing the truth of the statement. Her hands settle on her hips, the parchment of her plans bunching under her fingers. One colored pencil, pink, is tucked behind her ear, and three more are tucked into the bodice of her gown, thinnest fingers of blue and green and gold reaching for her clavicle.

“Your sisters must have warned you about me.”

“Oh, I don’t think Nesta’s ever been afraid of you,” she says, a smile forming on her lips.

“I don’t mean Nesta.”

He can feel the strain in her as she keeps her eyes on his, her breath hissing past her teeth.

“I will not talk about Feyre with you. If she ever wants to see you again, she knows how to find your doorstep.”

“Then why is Rhysand sending you here?”

“Night Court business.” She’s trying to say the words smoothly, but she blushes, the tip of her nose going pink.

“You’re lying.”

“I don’t owe you every single morsel of the truth.”

“You’re on my lands,” he says, only realizing the menace in his tone when she takes one step away from him and then another. “Why are you here?”

“My sisters have often told me that I need to see the gardens of the Spring Court.”

He rakes his fingers through his hair, catching a snarl so roughly that he has to hold back a wince. “That is a trip for an afternoon. Your High Lord sends you as his emissary and his gardener.”

“He -- I volunteered.”

“Tell me, Elain Archeron, are you Rhysand’s spy as well?”

“I would be a horrible spy if I told you that, High Lord. At any rate, do you think I have the skills for such a mission?”

“I hear you came out of the Cauldron with gifts, but their dimensions are vague in every recounting.”

She goes pale, as if she remembers who she’s speaking with, the calculus that made her Fae and took, he’s heard, a life story she deemed precious.

“You forgot for a moment that I ruined your life,” he says. He does not want to draw out the awkwardness. Let her walk away, let her leave, if she’s so inclined.

“Did you know that Hybern would capture us?”

“I believed the king. I thought that Feyre would be rescued, the enchantment broken, that we would live happily in my court for a thousand years.”

Elain snorts.

“You’re an idiot,” she says.

Tamlin just stares at her.

“Aren’t you supposed to be some fearsome warrior?” she continues, crossing her arms at her chest, “Even someone with no idea of strategy could tell you that Hybern would have never honored your promises. Even a human could have told you that.”

“You have never been in love then. You’d believe anything. Give anything. Do anything, just to have your beloved in your arms again.” His chest is tight and yet his skin feels too big for his body. He wants to hug himself but wills his fingers into fists, feeling the strain of the claws against the muscles of his hands.

“You nearly destroyed my sister.”

“You need to--”

“What I want to know,” she says, as if she doesn’t hear him at all, has no regard for rank or even danger, “is if a part of you did it on purpose. If you saw her suffering and wanted it to continue.”

He holds her gaze, the warm brown like whiskey, strong and sparkling.

“You do not believe what you said earlier, then.”

“I want to know if it could be true.”

“Is that what brings you to the Spring Court?”

She sighs, then uncrosses her arms.

“First,” she says, unfurling the parchment between them, “I’d like you to tell me what you think about my ideas for your gardens.”

He decides to look where she’s pointing instead of breathing another threat. She speaks of hyacinths and peonies and ferns, the lilac and forsythia bushes, and cherry trees and weeping willows that will line the paths, under which she proposes he install benches for lingering.

“Who do you think will be staying in these gardens so long?” he asks, the words more melancholy than he intends. He hates the way this male sounds, all longing and self-pity and no action at all, but he can’t keep the noise from escaping him.

She rustles the parchment, making it thunder. “There aren’t any other residents of Spring Court?”

“Not for lack of trying.”

“Why don’t you try to keep them?”

“You think I could have done something different?” He’s daring her to make a list of her suggestions. Cauldron boil him, his own list is endless and ever-growing.

“It doesn’t matter what I think,” she says, sighing as if there is more to say but she is too weary to muster the words, and he cannot believe that Elain Archeron, with her soft voice and her poise, all the glow of her, would be ignored, but Tamlin keeps quiet, allowing her to speak. “Anyway, I haven’t shown you my favorite part of my plan. I want you to install a field of tulips where the grounds meet the forest.” She sweeps her hand in that direction. “Mor has promised to find bulbs on the continent. I grew up hearing stories of tulip fields that went for miles.”

“You don’t think it sends a message of weakness to our enemies, to greet them with flowers?” It’s the second time within the moment when he’s asked for her opinion instead of stating his own.

Her nod is decisive, no sweetness in the gesture.

“Your enemies will know that the true terror is inside. Only the weak require a strong wall to hide behind.” He wonders if she’s thinking of her human lord, the one who left her. Tamlin has wandered as a beast for months, but the gossip of Prythian still finds him. Lucien has an ear at every door, and Rhysand’s monthly meetings are full of updates on political dealings that make Tamlin’s head ache.

“I’ll allow the tulips,” he says. “After all, you’ll be living here for a while, according to your High Lord. If my enemies are encouraged, you’ll see the result yourself.”

She nods, absently, no longer looking at his face but off into some middle distance. Probably considering a different arrangement of flowers, Tamlin thinks, deciding not to wait until she trains his eyes on him again. Instead he lets his feet carry him into the forest without only the smallest nod of goodbye.

He travels miles before he can rid himself of the image of her in his hall, rosy with the dawn light and fragrant as the gardens she dreams up. It is dangerous to think of an Archeron sister more than fleetingly, though, and so gradually Tamlin fills his mind up with the sights of the forest, the dappled light and the creatures that dart away when they hear him coming.

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pendragonfics · 7 years ago

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Down Under

Paring: Mycroft Holmes/Reader

Tags: female reader, long-distance relationships, romance, cutesy, tooth-rotting fluff, Australian politics, Australian slang, swearing,

Summary: Reader, a London-native, is working away from home for the first time, in a whole new country. It's all very new, especially since today, there's a surprise in her room, according to her roommate.

Word Count: 2,614

Current Date: 2018-09-26

Sydney is nothing like London. Well, there’s still cabs, but they’re white, not black. There’re crosswalks linking pedestrians from one sidewalk to the other. But here the drivers more often than not don’t slow for those on them. There’re people here, but there isn’t Myc. You thought the move from home to the land Down Under would be easy - it was another continent. Australians spoke English. Most of the nuances were understood between the cultural differences.

But for once, you were on your own.

No Mum and her odd assortment of cats crammed into her country house on the outskirts of the city limits. No Sherlock and his antics every other afternoon. It was only you and your thoughts, and FaceTime every afternoon at five o’clock, and lots of paperwork.

The move to Sydney was to advance your career. A bold move, for a girl who came from nothing. A girl who had nothing before graduating with scholarships and better marks than ever seen before. That’s where you met him; the last year of studies at university, at a small party. You were in a dress salvaged from a friend of a friend, a nice afternoon tea dress from three seasons ago, he in a two-piece suit, holding the jacket over his arm, a plastic cup of warm beer in his hand.

Your mutual friend introduced you to one another. He was bored of everything already, and you, well, tried your best to not make a fool of yourself around the other people who smelt of old money and perfume from Côte d'Azur. You cracked a joke, and his façade broke, or, was it the beer that broke it? It didn’t matter. By graduation, you were inseparable, and while he climbed the ladder of government, you worked on your connections in the ecopolitical sphere.

Working in the British embassy was nice. But it wasn’t exactly what you wanted. It was…like a resume builder. Except, instead of working at Burger King for three years to get customer service as a tag on it, it was a whole new country. But it was fine. Good. Great, even. You wore a nice uniform, worked through people’s problems, and found solutions for your own. When you ran out of milk in your shared flat, you spent half an hour wandering on foot around Ultimo looking for a Tesco, but it wasn’t until you heard someone’s unmissable Aussie accent when it clicked that you needed a Coles. Or a 7-11 corner store. It felt strange to hear Australian voices on the radio stations in the break room, and the bus ride from the flat to work. The money was weird, too. Everything was cheaper than British pounds, but it would be hard to scrape enough of it by to buy necessities.

Five o’clock in the evening never came fast enough, especially today. You checked out of work, and on the walk to the train station – sometimes catching the train from the Quay was nicer than the buses that were engraved with everyone’s five-minute romance initials – you’d boot up your phone and hit call on Myc’s profile, and thread your earbuds into your ears in muted excitement. Just like now.

But when he’d usually pick up after three dials, it rang out. You frown, but you think nothing of it.

The robot recording of a woman reading the train times overhead haled the next train as if from thin air, and boarding, you sat amidst the rest of the sweaty bodies. Springtime here was nothing like home, and your stay in Sydney was for six months on probation, and up to two years if you worked well. But that meant two summertime’s, and if spring was anything to go by, you dreaded the oncoming heat. The one summer you spent with Mycroft in Barcelona – he was at a conference with the local Catalonian and Spanish officials – oh, that made you feel so warm, your skin felt heated as if from the bones out, your hair and clothes too heavy and hot.

When the doors opened at Central station, the people around you left the carriage like blood from an open wound. You followed suit, pocketing your phone. It was a little walk from the station, but, you took this time to clear your head. A whole day of talking to people, sorting problems out often left you with a head that felt like a fruit blender.

When you pass by the McDonalds, you take five minutes to order a coffee. When you walk by the university, you crane your neck up to see the ugly tower that looms over the city skyline. When your phone finishes its shuffled playlist, you realise you’d been using your roaming data the whole time and turn the phone to airplane mode in panic. Even though your apartment had a shoddy version of the National Broadband Network (“Not to be confused with the TV channel”, your roommate Blue would laugh, or, when she was in a bad mood, it was known as “the fuckin’ NBN”), mobile data was like a prized possession. You practically lived off public Wi-Fi.

Someone on the street corner of Broadway and Mountain is hustling flyers at unsuspecting pedestrians, shouting about the end of the world. You chuckle to yourself, evading the paper held to you that reads The End Is Near!; at least there were still fundamentalists over the globe. By the time you make it into your street, your feet are aching more than ever, and your shoulder weighed down by your handbag and all its contents.

Blue is in the main room when you unlock the front door; the kettle is boiling along to the sound of her meditation CD that’s playing from the machine beside the tiny TV. She’s in her yoga pants and a giant t-shirt that says RIDE FOR PRIDE with a motorcycle underneath surrounded by rainbow fire. Blue looks up from her Downward Dog when you place your keys in the bowl, a grin on her freckled face.

“You look too happy to be a pretzel.” You comment, kicking off your heels into the shoe rack by the door. You blink, noticing a pair of shoes that you hadn’t seen in the rack before; brown brogue-laced leather. “Blue…”

“There’s a surprise in your room, _________.” She winked, and, along with the sultry sounds of the meditation track, went up, and twisted into Monkey pose.

You make it to the stairs, and with every step, you’re not sure what you’re to expect. Has Blue’s nephew come over again for homework help with his mathematics? He never came over on weekdays, and today was a Thursday! And that didn’t explain the brogues at all! The door to your room is ajar, and pushing it all the way, your mouth goes dry. Eyes blink, unsure if this is just another of your vivid fantasies. Mind racing.

“_________! Love –,” Mycroft comes to you, steadying you on your feet. It’s then you know it’s real, because his hands are cool, and they stick to your warm skin. You’re speechless, but perhaps that is for the better, because at once, you drop your handbag to the floor, and push Mycroft further into your room, hands up, cradling his face.

“Oh my God, you’re real,” you whisper, words finally found. “I’ve missed you so, so, so much.” You sniffle, laying your head against his chest.

“_________, don’t cry,” he says, holding you close. His lips brush over your forehead, slow kisses, soft, like the wings of a butterfly on your skin. He’s wearing a suit, like always – it’s a blue which brings out his eyes, and the jacket is stitched with a tiny pattern of diamonds. And now its covered with splattering of your tears. “I didn’t come all the way over here to make my girlfriend cry.”

You chuckle at that. “But you did, Mr. Holmes.” You take a breath, and a seat on the side of your bed. “How did you get here – and I mean in my room.” Mycroft licks his lips, holding back a smile. He unbuttons his jacket, and sits beside you, leaving some space between you both.

“Your roommate Harleen found me loitering around near your verandah, and let me in. I assume it’s because she recognised me from your photos.” He frowned. “Does she always let in men she doesn’t know?”

You shake your head. “Harley – I mean, Blue – she’s more interested in Terry.” You blink, and remember Mycroft doesn’t know her as well as you do, “Uh, they’re a couple.” You feel a blush cover your face and place it in your hands. When you look up, you turn to your boyfriend, and address him. “So, why are you here, Myc?”

He blinks, perhaps disarmed by the wording of your question. But Mycroft is not the sort of man to be disarmed, and if so, not for long. “I heard your desperation in our last video chat,” he says, looking at his hands. They sit in his lap, empty.

“So, you took time out from your position in England, caught a plane –,” you stop yourself, and sigh. “I really should be grateful you’re here…it’s just that there’s never such a thing as a free lunch. Especially with you, Myc.”

“I –,” he stops himself, perhaps hearing the words he was to say in his head.

“Is it Sherlock? Or your position, do you need any help?” your voice rises with every question, “Your mother –,”

“It was me,” he replies, voice so very small. You’re suddenly aware that the both of you are not alone in the house, because it’s then when Blue’s meditation music plays a loud gong noise. “_________, I missed you.” He wipes a hand over his face, and you notice the slight hint of stubble threatening to appear. His eyes have bags that look heavier than your handbag. And they look sad. “I can’t believe that now, of all times, I realise how you feel all the times when I’m away for work, wherever it be. I took time from work, bought a ticket here – _________, you have no idea how much I missed you.”

“I think I can guess,” you whisper.

You lean over the bed to the fan that’s plugged into the wall. As soon as it is whirring to life, your skin begins to prickle with the welcomed sensation of goosebumps. Mycroft sheds his jacket, and moving toward him, you take hold of his tie. Under your fingers, it loosens.

It’s just like all the times in London when Myc would come to your place above the green grocer in Russel Square. You’d kick off your shoes, and he his, you’d ruffle his hair – to his dismay, but, you knew he liked it when you did it – and before you shut the curtains in your room, you’d loosen his tie. It was a ritual. A spell. And always, like always, the Mycroft who walked from the street would transform into the Mycroft who walked into your heart.

But this time, it’s too warm to do what you’d usually do after the tie comes off, and like two lovesick children, you lay beside him in the bed, wearing nothing but your underclothes. Mycroft looks so at home in your quaint bedroom, and it makes your heart swell.

It isn’t until your phone chimes – a message from your co-worker – that the fantasy of the situation breaks, and you’re back to everyday life. And you’re once again a bidding political advisor, and a lucrative socialite.

“When do you go back?” you whisper. Your breath is warm, and opening his eyes, Mycroft sighs.

“I have to fly back this Sunday.” He replies. “It’s a twenty-hour flight. I managed to pull some strings with the airplane, so I can try to stay longer than I would if I went commercially…”

You feel that melancholy return to you. It’d be only four – no, three days that you see him.

And then how long?

You’re not a needy person; Blue knew that. When she’d be watching Netflix as she wrote her column, you’d quietly drink your tea, when she’d have Terry and her friends from Darlinghurst over, you’d chat politely within their circle, complain about the ongoing strawberry scandal, try to understand the current situation of national politics (“I’m the Prime Minister, all I had to do to get the job was stab two other people in the back to get here!” one would say, and watching silently, you’d hear another two friends shout, just like Monty Python, “I am your Prime Minster!” – “Well I didn’t vote for him!”)

“I suppose that’s how it’s going to be, now,” you reply. “We’re like two kangaroos passing in the night on the highway.”

Mycroft frowns. “Is that a local expression…?”

You shake your head. “I don’t know. I just made it up. But if anything, what I know of Australian culture is that in making things up and going with them, it’s commonplace.” You laugh at that. “As much as I want to be happy you’re here, Myc, I can’t help but wonder if a shoe’s about to drop.”

He gathers you closer. If it weren’t for your fan, it would be too hot to be this near to one another. Mycroft plants a kiss on your forehead, and you kiss him back, but he moves at the last minute, and it lands upon his nose.

“I’m not here to break up with you, if that’s what you’re thinking, _________.” He murmurs.

It’s then when you’re startled away from Mycroft’s embrace, because Blue’s shouting up the stairs, “I’m making chili con carne for tea, _________!” You chuckle to yourself, as she goes on, “Is your hot businessman friend staying for dinner?”

You feel your cheeks heat up at that. But Mycroft’s the one who remedies it and grasping the railing that looks over the hallway – it felt so strange to have a loft bedroom – he calls out below, his British accent so different to Blue’s native Aussie twang, “Yes, the hot businessman is staying for dinner,” he says, a cheeky look on his face. He’s never been this relaxed in so long, and you let out a laugh at his wording. “But you can call me _________’s boyfriend.”

When he returns to the bed, you’re sitting up, pulling on your around-the-house shorts and Myc’s old sleepshirt he let you keep, shaking your head to yourself.

“What is it, love?” he asks, pulling his trousers back on.

You chuckle. “I’m always your girlfriend. You know, everywhere we go in London, to whomever we’re introduced to. Sherlock knows my name, but simply calls me ��The Girlfriend’. But here…” you smile. “Oh-ho, the tables have turned, Myc! My boyfriend!”

He kisses your temple, and gathers your hand in his, and walks with you downstairs to where the smell of chili is wafting from. “Yes,” he admits, “I guess I am.”

Sydney is somewhat like London. There’re tourists everywhere, and the people who walk the streets who are locals don’t think twice about the knowledge they know. There are people here, like Blue and her friends and when you’re not working at the British Consulate, Blue and her friends take you to the most fantastic shows and places you wouldn’t find on your own. The beach is around the corner, and the ice-creams on Manley Island drip down your hands before they’re even scooped in their cones. Mycroft leaves every time he comes, but comes every four weeks or so, bringing his laptop, and plenty of free time to be with you.

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Amazon DynamoDB single-table design using DynamoDBMapper and Spring Boot

A common practice when creating a data model design, especially in the relational database management system (RDMS) world, is to start by creating an entity relationship diagram (ERD). Afterwards, you normalize your data by creating a table for each entity type in your ERD design. The term normalization refers to the process of organizing the columns (attributes) and tables (relations) of a relational database to minimize data redundancy. The practice of creating ERDs works even with NoSQL database systems such as Amazon DynamoDB. The patterns provided by modules such as Spring Data, which is used by Spring Boot based application for data access, still heavily depend on these patterns from the RDMS world. However, normalizing your data in this way doesn’t yield optimal results when you’re using a nonrelational database. Relational databases use joins to combine records from two or more tables, but those joins are expensive. However, DynamoDB does not support joins. Instead, data is pre-joined and denormalized into a single-table. This blog post shows how to implement an ERD design by using a single-table design approach instead of using multiple tables. We use the higher-level programming interface for DynamoDB called DynamoDBMapper to demonstrate an example implementation based on Spring Boot. Solution overview In this post, we use the Ski Resort Data Model that is provided as an example in NoSQL Workbench for DynamoDB. This example model provides several entities and defines the following access patterns: Retrieval of all dynamic and static data for a given ski lift or overall resort, facilitated by the table SkiLifts Retrieval of all dynamic data (including unique lift riders, snow coverage, avalanche danger, and lift status) for a ski lift or the overall resort on a specific date, facilitated by the table SkiLifts Retrieval of all static data (including if the lift is for experienced riders only, vertical feet the lift rises, and lift ride time) for a certain ski lift facilitated by the table SkiLifts Retrieval of the date of data recorded for a certain ski lift or the overall resort sorted by total unique riders, facilitated by the SkiLifts table’s global secondary index SkiLiftsByRiders With dynamic and static data in a single table, we can construct queries that return all needed data in a single interaction with the database. This is important for speeding up the performance of the application for these specific access patterns. However, there is a potential downside, the design of your data model is tailored towards supporting these specific access patterns. Which could conflict with other access patterns, making those less efficient. Because of this trade-off it’s important to prioritize your access patterns and optimize for performance as well as cost based on priority. To apply the single-table design successfully in your application, you need to understand your application’s data access patterns. Access patterns are dictated by your design, and using a single-table design requires a different way of thinking about data modeling. You can learn more about this pattern from the AWS re:Invent 2020 talks from Alex DeBrie (AWS Data Hero), Data modeling with DynamoDB – Part 1 and Data modeling with DynamoDB – Part 2. Additionally, Amazon DynamoDB Office Hours with Rick Houlihan (senior practice manager at AWS) are a great source of information that include examples of modeling real-world applications. Usually, you don’t know all the access patterns beforehand. Iterate your design and continue to improve it before actually putting the application into use. In this blog post’s example application, we use the following stack: Amazon Corretto 11, the no-cost, multiplatform, production-ready distribution of the Open Java Development Kit (OpenJDK) Spring Boot version 2.4, Spring’s convention-over-configuration solution for creating stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications Apache Maven, a software project management and comprehension tool Amazon DynamoDB Local, the downloadable version of DynamoDB you can use to develop and test applications in your development environment AWS SDK for Java v1, specifically for the higher-level programming interface for DynamoDB, which is called DynamoDBMapper Project Lombok, a java library that reduces boilerplate code by using annotations in your classes JUnit 5, unit testing framework for Java based applications The first iteration of our data model is shown in the following table. Primary Key Attributes PK SK Date Total Unique LiftRiders Average Snow Coverage Inches Avalanche Danger Open Lifts Experienced Riders Only Vertical Feet Lift Time Lift Number RESORT_DATA DATE#07-03-2021 07-03-2021 7788 50 HIGH 60 RESORT_DATA DATE#08-03-2021 08-03-2021 6699 40 MODERATE 60 RESORT_DATA DATE#09-03-2021 09-03-2021 5678 65 EXTREME 53 LIFT#1234 STATIC_DATA TRUE 1230 7:00 4545 LIFT#1234 DATE#07-03-2021 07-03-2021 3000 60 HIGH OPEN LIFT#1234 DATE#08-03-2021 08-03-2021 3500 50 MODERATE OPEN LIFT#6789 STATIC_DATA FALSE 2340 13:00 1122 LIFT#6789 DATE#08-03-2021 08-03-2021 4000 60 MODERATE OPEN LIFT#6789 DATE#09-03-2021 09-03-2021 2000 88 EXTREME OPEN This table uses the DynamoDB concept called composite primary key. A composite primary key is composed of two attributes. The first attribute is the partition key (PK) and the second attribute is the sort key (SK). DynamoDB uses the partition key’s value as input to an internal hash function. The output from the hash function determines the partition (physical storage internal to DynamoDB) in which the item will be stored. All items with the same partition key value are stored together, in sorted order by sort key value. The values for the partition key and sort key in this table start with a prefix like #, which makes values easier to understand. Such a prefix also allows you to create simple queries on the sort key that filter on items starting with a certain prefix. Prerequisites for this solution For this walkthrough, you should have the following prerequisites: Java Development Kit (JDK), such as Amazon Corretto installed, version 11 or higher Apache Maven, which you can install locally or use the Maven wrapper that is provided with the example project Implementing the solution We focus on two access patterns in this post and provide integration tests that demonstrate the functionality by using DynamoDB Local. Integration tests provide examples that can be a good starting point when you plan to implement a similar access pattern in your own application. We focus on the following two patterns: Retrieval of all dynamic and static data for a given ski lift or overall resort. Retrieval of the date of dynamic data recorded for a certain ski lift or the overall resort sorted by total unique riders. To make this query efficient, we use a global secondary index on the DynamoDB table. Follow these steps to create an environment in which to test these access patterns: Create the Spring Boot application. Add domain classes, providing a mapper between Java POJOs and the DynamoDB model. To reduce the amount of boilerplate code we need to write, we use Project Lombok annotations to generate most of this code. Add integration tests to validate the access patterns by using DynamoDB Local. The example project can be found in this GitHub repo. Using the combination of Spring Boot with Project Lombok is common practice, because the use of Project Lombok minimizes boilerplate code and thereby improves the developer productivity in creating Spring Boot based applications. The Spring Data model is often used for accessing databases. Implementing the data access layer of your application without Spring Data and instead using the higher-level programming interface provided by the AWS SDK for Java has some advantages. For example, you can create a dedicated project for data access, allowing you to not only use this library in your Spring Boot applications but also in other plain Java code. Creating your domain classes that provide the mapping between the application logic and DynamoDB is easier when you combine Project Lombok and the AWS SDK for Java. The following code example demonstrates how to use the Project Lombok annotations and DynamoDBMapper annotations together to create a Java POJO representing the static lift stats domain class. The Project Lombok annotations minimizes the boilerplate code and the DynamoDBMapper annotations provide a mapping between this class and its properties to tables and attributes in DynamoDB. For example the @DynamoDBHashKey and @DynamoDBTable annotations allows DynamoDBMapper to link the getPK() method to the partition key in the table SkiLifts. @AllArgsConstructor @Builder @Data @DynamoDBTable(tableName = "SkiLifts") @NoArgsConstructor public class LiftStaticStats { @DynamoDBAttribute(attributeName = "ExperiencedRidersOnly") private boolean experiencedRidersOnly; @DynamoDBAttribute(attributeName = "VerticalFeet") private int verticalFeet; @DynamoDBAttribute(attributeName = "LiftTime") private String liftTime; @DynamoDBAttribute(attributeName = "LiftNumber") private int liftNumber; @DynamoDBHashKey(attributeName = "PK") public String getPK() { return "LIFT#" + liftNumber; } @DynamoDBRangeKey(attributeName = "SK") public String getSK() { return "STATIC_DATA"; } } The following code block creates a QueryRequest expressing to DynamoDB that we want all data from the table that share the same partition key represented by the attribute liftPK. The result of this request is retrieved from DynamoDB by performing a query: AttributeValue liftPK = new AttributeValue("LIFT#" + liftNumber); QueryRequest queryRequest = new QueryRequest() .withTableName("SkiLifts") .withKeyConditionExpression("PK = :v_pk") .withExpressionAttributeValues(Map.of(":v_pk", liftPK)); QueryResult queryResult = amazonDynamoDB.query(queryRequest); The results of this query can contain items of different types of objects, both LiftDynamicStats and LiftStaticStats objects. The DynamoDBMapper class isn’t suited to implement this query because its typed methods don’t allow for a query result that contains different types of objects. However, for this access pattern it is important to retrieve the data set containing different types of objects with just one query to DynamoDB. Because the QueryRequest and QueryResult classes are able to deal with query results containing different types of data objects, using the QueryRequest and QueryResult classes is the best alternative for implementing this query. Second access pattern Our second access pattern is the retrieval of the date of dynamic data recorded for a certain ski lift or the overall resort sorted by total unique riders. We need to sort this data by the number of unique riders, but the table design doesn’t facilitate an easy query for such a use case. For this reason, we introduce a global secondary index to support our access pattern. The partition key (PK) remains the same, but we use the total unique riders property as the sort key (SK). Do we need more data for this access pattern? Yes: the date, but other attributes aren’t relevant, so those are not included in global secondary index. The following table provides some example data in which the items are sorted by the total unique lift riders. Primary Key Attributes PK SK TotalUniqueLiftRiders Date RESORT_DATA TOTAL_UNIQUE_LIFT_RIDERS#7788 7788 07-03-2021 RESORT_DATA TOTAL_UNIQUE_LIFT_RIDERS#6699 6699 08-03-2021 RESORT_DATA TOTAL_UNIQUE_LIFT_RIDERS#5678 5678 09-03-2021 LIFT#1234 TOTAL_UNIQUE_LIFT_RIDERS#3500 3500 08-03-2021 LIFT#1234 TOTAL_UNIQUE_LIFT_RIDERS#4000 4000 08-03-2021 LIFT#6789 TOTAL_UNIQUE_LIFT_RIDERS#3000 3000 07-03-2021 LIFT#6789 TOTAL_UNIQUE_LIFT_RIDERS#2000 2000 09-03-2021 With just one query, it’s very easy to get a list for a specific lift sorted by the total unique lift riders. The only additional data retrieved by this query is the date. The integration test in the project called GlobalSecondaryIndexTestIT.testRetrieveDateOfLiftDataSortedByTotalUniqueLift() implements this scenario. See the following code, in which we use the DynamoDBMapper to query the global secondary index using an expression that will only return objects of the type LiftDynamicStats: List results = mapper.query(LiftDynamicStats.class, new DynamoDBQueryExpression() .withConsistentRead(false) .withExpressionAttributeValues( Map.of(":val1", new AttributeValue().withS("LIFT#" + lift1))) .withIndexName("GSI_1") .withKeyConditionExpression("GSI_1_PK = :val1")); Run tests in the project by using Maven To run our tests, we run the following command in the root folder of the project: ./mvnw clean verify The output shows the results of running the tests, including access to DynamoDB Local. The test results are not that important. We used these tests to demonstrate how different access patterns can be implemented and thereby providing a starting point for integrating the single-table design in Java applications. You also can find the test results in /target/surefire-reports/. Summary This post showed how to complement the functionality provided by the AWS SDK for Java with the functionality provided by Project Lombok. Such an approach allows for an efficient programming model in Spring Boot–based applications as well as any other Java application. Furthermore, you can extend the same concept in this post to simple functions, including AWS Lambda functions. Within a project, you can use this data access layer in applications based on Spring Boot and deployed on Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) on AWS Fargate. Similarly, you can use the data access layer within the same project in smaller scoped functions deployed as lightweight Lambda functions. This way, you can avoid the added overhead of Spring Boot. This is one of the main advantages of using the components provided by the AWS SDK for Java instead of implementations based on modules such as Spring Data. This post’s example project demonstrates functionality by using DynamoDB Local, but also provides a great stepping stone to start developing your own Java-based applications and functions. About the author Arjan Schaaf is a cloud infrastructure architect at AWS Professional Services, based in the Netherlands. He helps customers solve complex challenges by providing solutions that use AWS services. When not working, Arjan likes Alpine activities, backyard BBQ, and spending time with family and friends. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/amazon-dynamodb-single-table-design-using-dynamodbmapper-and-spring-boot/

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On California’s Lost Coast: Sea Lions, Surf and Squiggly Roads

On a deserted beach in Northern California, I mistook a sea lion for driftwood. The Lost Coast is deceiving that way. Wild things appear tame and tame things, like the paved road my family and I took to get here, wild.

In June, seeking immersion in nature, we visited the Lost Coast, the largely roadless shore between the indiscernibly tiny town of Rockport and the Victorian charmer Ferndale, about 100 miles apart by inland roads. Here in Humboldt County, California reaches its westernmost point near a junction of three seismically active tectonic plates. The King Range mountains plunge into the sea, deterring road-builders from continuing State Route 1 along the ocean. Breaking waves strew driftwood along beaches reached by hiking trails that require consulting a tide chart. It’s cold and foggy, even in summer, and just rough enough to keep all but the most intrepid day-trippers away.

“No one comes here without intending to come here,” said Verna Kaai, the manager of the Tides Inn, a homey base in Shelter Cove, the oceanfront gateway to the Lost Coast, when I booked a room for three days amid a weeklong road trip. “We’re only about 20 miles from the highway,” she said of the squiggly access road that connects the town to the nearest thoroughfare, “but it will take you up to an hour to travel.”

That sounded like our speed. And while the coast wasn’t lost to the Native Americans, loggers and cannabis growers who have left their mark here, it appealed to us in another escapist sense: little connectivity. Ms. Kaai assured me I wouldn’t have cellular service, though the hotel had very slow Wi-Fi. In this screen-centric age, a few scenic and relatively unwired places remain in the United States, such as Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument in southern Arizona and parts of the Adirondack Mountains in New York. But this slice of California’s coast — only some 225 miles north of San Francisco — seems, well, lost in plain sight.

A harrowing drive

Long before it went missing, the area was populated by Native American Sinkyone and Mattole people, and later, lumberjacks and harvesters of tanoak bark, used to tan leather. The Gold Rush in the mid-19th century brought more settlers, and logging intensified in the race to rebuild the city after the San Francisco earthquake in 1906. Churning seas tended to wash out piers, which killed most attempts to fish commercially in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 1970, after the timber industry had depleted much of the area, and depopulation drew pot growers, the 68,000-acre King Range National Conservation Area, which protects 35 miles of coast and mountains up to 4,088 feet, became the country’s first National Conservation Area.

Now, visitors come to the Lost Coast to hike, fish, beachcomb, bird-watch and scan the ocean for migrating whales in the offshore marine preserve (Ms. Kaai recommended visiting on a weekend, when Shelter Cove’s few restaurants are open). Others come to backpack along the famous Lost Coast Trail-North, a nearly 25-mile beach trek that generally takes three days, requires a permit (free, with a $6 reservation fee) and is subject to tides that periodically make portions impassable.

Like the hiking here, driving to reach the Lost Coast requires a degree of fortitude. The builders of California’s Highway 1, which skirts the Pacific from Orange County more than 600 miles north, gave up the shore plan at the King Range, a topographic accordion we glimpsed in hazy fog and spray before veering inland. It ends at Leggett, about 15 miles from the ocean, funneling drivers onto U.S. 101, which continues north through southern Humboldt County before rejoining the coast near Eureka.

From the U.S. 101 exit at Garberville, 23 miles from Leggett, the route to Shelter Cove turned westward and challenging. For the next 50 minutes of concentrated driving, my husband, Dave, worked hard to maintain 35 miles per hour winding up mountain ridges and through dense fir forests, and downshifting at the continuous switchbacks to avoid overheating the brakes. Past the town limit sign for Shelter Cove, population 809, I finally relinquished my clutch on the Jeep door handle at the ocean panorama of surf-bashed rock islands and mountain-backed beaches.

Shelter Cove, at last

On the southern end of the Lost Coast Trail-North, Shelter Cove is scattered across a largely treeless peninsula that protects the town’s namesake, a south-facing cove. A general store on the access road deals groceries and hardware in the absence of any commercial main street in town. Modest houses dot the shore, leaving plenty of gaps for places with names like Seal Rock and Abalone Point, and views to the sea from most vantage points, including a campground and a lightly used nine-hole golf course. The closest thing to a town square is the community center, which, when we visited, was holding a group garage sale near the landing strip that parallels the coast.

Between the runway and the sea, the location of the eight-room Tides Inn — a three-story cross between a motel and a McMansion that is perched above a cove and hugged by rocky arms — exceeded our expectations. Our suite was thoughtfully furnished with nautical décor in the bedroom, a kitchenette nook with a mini-refrigerator and microwave and a high-top dining table. But the views made you forget about anything indoors. From our third-floor balcony, we could hear sea lions barking each morning and watch sunsets late each evening.

While it remains a destination for lovers of isolation, Shelter Cove has added a few tourist-friendly essentials in the past year, including a brewpub and a Venezuelan restaurant, Mi Mochima. On our first night, we followed the music across a ball field and skirted the unfenced landing strip to find Gyppo Ale Mill, a microbrewery, which takes its name from independent timber crews who came to Northern California to fell big trees (some logging remains, though environmental activists are fighting to preserve one of the region’s remaining old-growth Douglas fir stands, known as Rainbow Ridge). On this Friday night, the local band Planet 4 played funky tributes to Dr. John, who had recently died, and children ran circles around a cornhole-playing field.

Like us, the Gyppo Ale Mill’s co-owner Julie Peacock took one of the dramatic drives to the Lost Coast region and immediately fell in love with it. In 2001, she and her husband, Josh Monschke, whose family has roots in Humboldt County logging, left ski resort jobs in Utah to move to the area to farm marijuana, and he continues to run a nursery. They opened Gyppo last spring and call it “California’s most remote brewery,” because, said Ms. Peacock, “I haven’t found one more remote.”

We felt we’d earned an I.P.A. or two, after the harrowing drive in, but learned that’s not an excuse used by residents.

“Locals think nothing of driving that road to town,” said Katie Wallace-Schmidt, the manager of Gyppo as she delivered falafel burgers and lamb sausage to our table. “In L.A., I could easily be on the highway for 50 minutes to go 10 miles. I’d much rather be here.”

A dose of wilderness therapy

Given the weather, which generally peaks in the 60s in summer, we didn’t consider Shelter Cove a swim destination, though we found hardy bathers dipping into the shallows at Cove Beach on Saturday morning. By afternoon, a dozen SUVs and pickup trucks were parked on the popular beach, a rare safe place to swim along the Lost Coast, which is known for its rip currents and shore-breaking waves.

If not a traditional beach-lovers’ shore, the Lost Coast is ideal for losing time climbing over craggy rocks and inspecting tide pools. Between hikes in the conservation area, we scrambled around the peninsula’s rough edges, watching whistling oystercatchers, turkey vultures with their wings spread to dry in the sun, and sleepy harbor seals, some of them still pale in their juvenile coats (a notice posted in the Tides Inn window warned visitors from getting close to the pups, which are often alone and mistaken for orphaned while their parents, who may abandon their babies if in the presence of humans, are out fishing).

The Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the King Range preserve, allows 60 overnight backpackers per day to depart on the Lost Coast Trail-North between May 15 and Sept. 15 (30 people per day are permitted the rest of the year, when worsening weather notoriously alters and sometimes washes out parts of the trail). Day hikers do not need a permit. On our visit, the Shelter Cove trailhead parking lot was full, with more than two dozen cars, and a nearby street was lined with the overflow, indicating the numbers of hikers somewhere along the coast. Still, we felt we had the trail to ourselves Saturday morning, along with a black bear, possibly, based on the fresh scat we encountered.

From the Shelter Cove trailhead at Black Sands Beach, the going was slow on spongy black sand and tumbled sandstones that were hard to grip as our boots sank inches with each step. The slow pace that beach hiking enforced worked as wilderness therapy. We combed the high-tide line, finding patterned sea urchin shells, sun-bleached sea stars, driftwood sanded by waves and the occasional crab trap. Near the breaking surf, we nearly bumped into a juvenile sea lion we mistook for a log. We took breaks atop 20-foot high boulders that appeared to have tumbled from a mountain peak with an evident rock slide on its oceanfront face (the offshore Mendocino Triple Junction sets off frequent tremblers in an area where the three tectonic plates meet). Massive timbers made sturdy bridges to cross mountain streams that run down the slopes and cut through the sand on their way to the sea.

Venezuelan fare, blind curves and a tiny lighthouse

That night we gorged at Mi Mochima, a sunny new Venezuelan spot with its own boomerang story. The married owners, Blu Graham and Maria Graham Diaz, met in Venezuela where he was a scuba-diving guide. In 2011, after moving back to the coast where he grew up, Mr. Graham opened the neighboring Lost Coast Adventure Tours, which offers guided backpacking trips on the trail. The ocean-view A-frame restaurant, where Ms. Diaz is the chef, is designed to balance out their seasonal business, offering mini fish empanadas, garlic-sautéed prawns and a hearty shredded beef stew known as pabellón criollo. Our waitress, the couple’s adult daughter, Indiana Graham, explained that the coastal town of Mochima, Venezuela, and Shelter Cove are only distant in a geographic sense.

“They both are all about the ocean,” she said.

Getting to the northern trailhead at the Mattole River the following day was the most extreme of our adventure drives. Our innkeepers recommended a paved route largely outside of the conservation area that still turned out to be a hair-raising, one-hour, 40-minute errand on narrow roads that occasionally pinched to one lane, often, it seemed, just as we reached a blind curve (Lost Coast Adventure Tours, also offers shuttle service to the trailhead in 11-passenger vans).

A series of determined roads ascended pine-dense hillsides, undulated over mountain passes of wildflower meadows and tunneled through trees, only to descend and make the climb all over again. The few towns indicated on the map were easy to miss, though the general store in Honeydew, a blink of a town where a few intriguing back roads intersect, was thronged with dirt bikers on a group drive. We passed through sleepy Petrolia, site of the first oil well drilled in California, and took the relatively flat Lighthouse Road that follows the tail end of the Mattole River to reach the Lost Coast Trail at its top end.

In contrast to the pine forests around the southern trailhead at Shelter Cove, grassy woodlands border the northern gateway. Desert wildflowers, including globe-shaped yellow sand verbena, daisylike purple fleabane and violet lupine, bloomed in the dunes. A deer grazed a hillside and sea lions on offshore rocks barked at our approach. At just over three miles in, a colony of elephant seals dozed below the squat, white Punta Gorda Lighthouse, a remote, long-decommissioned beacon anchoring a grassy hillside above the shore.

Leaving the Lost Coast northbound saves one of the best adventure drives for last when, past Petrolia, two-lane Mattole Road links to the coast again and follows an undeveloped stretch. Bushy wild radish plants crowded the road as it climbed inland and, 90 minutes later, abruptly disgorged us in Ferndale, a manicured Victorian-era Mayberry. There, a ukulele ensemble was jamming in a bank parking lot, a comparatively found spot — with cellular service restored — at the border of the lost wilds.

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Toronto's Interior Design Trends for 2019

As Toronto emerges from another mind-numbingly cold Canadian winter, our collective thoughts turn toward springtime and the promise of renewal.

We say goodbye to parkas and winter boots & hello to spring jackets & warm-weather shoes.

We say goodbye to snow & hello to green grass.

And when it comes to us design nerds, we also say goodbye to outdated interior design & hello to the new interior design trends for 2019.

In today’s article, I have interviewed a handful of Toronto’s design leaders for their feedback on Toronto's Interior Design Trends for 2019.

Wallcovering Trends for 2019

Katie Hunt from Katies Wallpaper is Toronto’s wallcovering superstar. Here’s her forecast on Toronto’s wallcovering trends for 2019….

As the technology of wallpapers continue to improve, the scope of wallpaper applications and designs will be continue to expand. For 2019, we will be seeing more Murals, and Oversized Patterns, and designs which are whimsical and colourful.

From custom wallpapered furniture, to built-ins, new and exciting wallpaper applications will add custom details throughout the home.

Textural wallpapers, such as Grasscloths, continue to be popular. And with specialty finishes, like Wood Veneers, pushing the boundaries of what wallpaper can do.

We will also be seeing more Artisan wallpapers, as they are customizable, and add that special one-of-a-kind look to your home.

Wallpaper is one of the most diverse creative design applications for your home, both from a price and design perspective. You can budget $60 per Roll to $2,000, and from a design standpoint, the possibilities can be virtually anything you imagine

Lighting

Universal Lamp is one of Toronto’s leaders in lighting design & fixtures. I would like to thank Universal’s Shayla Young for her take on Toronto’s most important lighting trend for 2019….

The biggest lighting trend that we noticed this year at Universal Lamp is matte black lighting. Coming in all kinds of styles, from modern to traditional, and all types of lights, chandelier to wall sconces, etc. Black lights are a great choice for people who do not want to commit to a metal finish, or if they plan on mixing finishes.

Custom Furniture

Markham Furniture is one of Toronto’s top builders of fine quality, custom-built furniture. A favorite of interior designers for 20 years, Markham Furniture sells made-to-order furniture to perceptive clients across Canada at an extraordinary value. Below are their thoughts on Toronto’s top furniture trends for 2019…

When Interior Designers and decorating clients shop for fine custom upholstery, a concise palette of colour usually guides their project selections. Designers will always shop fabrics with that prevailing consideration in mind. For 2019, leading designers are increasingly exploring textured fabrics to shelter their focal point settees.

“Clients are not just looking, they’re touching more than ever. They’re opting for something with a discernible, gratifying touch. It’s a decidedly tactile approach” says Julie Rizk, a Furniture Designer and Fabric Consultant at Markham Furniture.

“They want their fabrics to feel delicate, natural, breathable. Designers are consciously exploring all the options. They’re asking about Linen, Wool, Cotton, and Bamboo and asking for silky-velvet, and chenille fabric swatch books.”

Markham Furniture tells us that textured fabrics with beautiful, subtle patterns woven-through have been in demand pre-Spring, and expect texture to be a significant consideration for designers and home decorators in (Toronto in) 2019.

Tile / Stone

Marble Trend is one of Toronto’s best suppliers of natural stone slabs, porcelain, glass tile, terrazzo, quartz, concrete & wood flooring. For 2019, Marble Trend’s Gabriella Luchetta sees two products leading the way in Toronto for 2019….

PORCELAIN:

With advancements in technology, natural stones have been mimicked into porcelain tiles & slabs giving the look of expensive natural stones but offering a cheaper alternative.

NOTE: I have included a link to Marble Trend’s selection of porcelain products, but to be honest, the pictures don’t do them justice. They need to be seen in “real life” to make a accurate comparison to natural stone.

TERRAZZO:

Lately people seem to be getting tired of the marble look that has been popular for so many years and are now really into terrazzo.

Traditional terrazzo is natural stone chips held together with cement or resin. It was popular for many years for commercial projects like airports, hotels, shopping malls, public transit stations etc. but it wasn’t as popular as it has become for the multitude of applications it is being used for today. Popular applications include countertops, floors, walls, sinks, tabletops etc.

With advancements in technology, manufacturers have created new adaptations of traditional terrazzo.

Ex 1: Vetrazzo is created with 100% recycled components such as beer, wine and vodka bottles, condiment jars, oyster shells, mother of pearl, traffic lights, windshields as more.

Ex 2: DNA Urbano is a product that instead of using stone chips is made with (gravel that builds up along pavement edges), designed by CEM Ambiente Spa –a company that engages in the collection and treatment of waste for a cleaner environment.

Ex 3: Retrostone is a digitally printed version of Terrazzo. It is also eco friendly, 100% natural & recyclable, kosher approved, greenguard certified, emits no VOCs etc.

Contributors

I would like to recognize all of the contributors who helped put this article together :)

Katie Hunt Professional Wallpaper Installer Katie’s Wallpaper Installation Inc. Facebook - Instagram

Katie Hunt is a leading professional wallpaper installer and expert, appearing on several HGTV television series, including The Property Brothers, Holmes and Holmes, Reno Set Go and Home to Win. She is a regular guest on several television talk shows, including The Marilyn Denis Show.

Her wallpaper installations are also featured in national publications across Canada and the United States. Working with leading interior designers, Katie specializes in luxury wallpaper installations, from hand-painted silk wallcoverings to crystal-beaded wallpaper.

Her work can be seen in various luxury custom homes and five-star hotel residences, including The Ritz-Carlton and Shangri-La Toronto. Katie also provides consulting for major wallpaper manufacturers and distributors, having established herself as one of the premier experts in her field.

Shayla Young Universal Lamp Lighting Design & Fixtures Facebook - Instagram

Universal Lamp is one of Toronto’s leaders in lighting design & fixtures. Their #1 goal is to provide a complete selection of lighting products for every application and every budget while maximizing quality and style. Universal understands the dramatic effect lighting can have on the way a space looks, feels, and functions. Their experienced sales staff are there to help you get your lighting right, and have have a great reputation for outstanding customer service.

Lighting is their only business. With so many recent changes in lighting technology, Universal’s sole focus on lighting ensures that they can continually provide the expert advice and award-winning lighting consultation services that they are known for,

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Marble Trend is one of Toronto’s finest suppliers of natural stone slabs, porcelain, glass tile, terrazzo, quartz, concrete & wood flooring.

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Easy integration between services with Apache Camel

For a couple of months now I have been working on an application that uses Apache Camel. I am not sure if it’s a good choice for this application because it does not deal with many sources of information. But I am convinced that Apache Camel can provide easy-to-read integration code and it’s a good choice for some services in a microservices architecture. The Apache Camel project is already running for some time, and I wonder: is it ready for the future? First I will explain a bit what I think Apache Camel is and why it is useful. I will also give some code examples.

What is Apache Camel?

Apache Camel is a framework full of tools for routing data within an application. It is a framework you use when a full-blown Enterprise Server Bus is not (yet) needed. It focusses on getting different kinds of messages from different kinds of sources to their destination. Using Apache Camel intensively in an application means it becomes message-based. It provides an implementation of the Enterprise Integration Patterns, which are described in the book ‘Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions’, using a domain-specific language.

Apache Camel’s main building block is a ‘Route’ which contains flow and integration logic. In the route you can specify the sources and endpoints using the DSL. You can also define which transformations need to be done during the trip from source to endpoint. In your route you can define URIs to receive data provided by different sources, transport protocols or messaging models and also send data to them. For example, HTTP, JMS, Amazon’s SQS, Docker, MQTT and many more. Also Beans can be endpoints, but cannot be defined as a source. Apache Camel in general works nicely together with Spring. A Camel Spring Boot autoconfiguration and starter module are available.

Why use Apache Camel?

It is quite difficult to explain why one would need Apache Camel, but I will try. I think Apache Camel is a great tool when your application receives data from many different sources. At a certain moment, when adding more sources, the code is getting littered with various client libraries and custom code that does message transformation, which is when it is maybe time to look into Apache Camel. The DSL provides a clear way to define the integration and transformation required for the data from these sources. Besides, you can easily set up in-memory queueing to prevent overloading of certain calls in the application using for example the SEDA component. SEDA creates a pool of threads to process incoming messages. Also, Direct VM and VM components are provided to send messages to applications running on the same Java virtual machine. In the DSL you have the ‘choice’ construct that enables conditional routing. This means you can determine if a message for example needs to be sent to a specific endpoint.

The framework also provides one set of concepts and models to argue about integration issues. The same concepts of endpoint and consumer can be used when getting data from an MQTT topic or when files are dropped in a directory or when processing a REST request. While Apache Camel is expressive and declarative, it does add complexity. A language is introduced in the codebase that a lot of developers are not familiar with.

Some examples

A simple pseudo-code example:

from(source) .choice() .when(condition).to(endpoint) .otherwise() .to(anotherEndpoint) .end();

More extensive example:

from("file:" + getDirectory() + "?move=.done") .routeId("extensiveRouteId") .routePolicyRef("cronPolicy") .unmarshal("dataFormatter") .process("Processor1") .process("Processor2") .to("bean:outputBean?method=process(${body},${header." + fieldName + "})")

In the second example, the route listens to a directory and every file there is picked up. When finished, the file is moved to the .done sub directory. The route policy defines when a route is active and the unmarshal defines how the file contents are transformed to a new format like a bean. The process call enables you to get the message in form of an ‘Exchange’ object in a Processor where you can read it and change it. At the end, the message is sent to a method ‘process’ of the bean with the name ‘outputBean’. The two arguments of the method are provided using the ‘Simple Expression Language’ which is part of Camel. The body is just the main message content and the header provides metadata which often is automatically provided by a component. Like the ‘CamelFileName’ for the ‘file:’ component.

Below I give an example how you could create an integration test for a Route.

@RunWith(CamelSpringRunner.class) @ContextConfiguration(loader = AnnotationConfigContextLoader.class) public class SplitRouteIT { public static final String MOCK_RESULT = "mock:result"; @Produce(uri = DIRECT_SPLIT) private ProducerTemplate template; @Autowired private CamelContext camelContext; @EndpointInject(uri = MOCK_RESULT) protected MockEndpoint mockEndpoint; @Before public void setup() throws Exception { AdviceWithRouteBuilder builder = new AdviceWithRouteBuilder() { @Override public void configure() throws Exception { weaveByToString("To[" + DIRECT_SENDER + "]").replace().to(MOCK_RESULT); } }; camelContext.getRouteDefinition(SplitRoute.ROUTE_ID).adviceWith(camelContext, builder); } @Test @DirtiesContext public void shouldSplitMessages() throws Exception { mockEndpoint.expectedBodiesReceived( "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefg1", "ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1", "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefg2", "ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz2"); template.sendBody(SplitRoute.DIRECT_SPLIT, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefg1ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz1"); template.sendBody(SplitRoute.DIRECT_SPLIT, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefg2ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz2"); mockEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied(); } @Test @DirtiesContext public void shouldSplitMessage() throws Exception { mockEndpoint.expectedBodiesReceived("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefgh", "ijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"); template.sendBody(DIRECT_SPLIT, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"); mockEndpoint.assertIsSatisfied(); } @ComponentScan(basePackageClasses = { CamelContext.class, SplitRoute.class }) @Configuration public static class ContextConfiguration { } }

And the actual route:

import org.apache.camel.builder.RouteBuilder; import org.springframework.stereotype.Component; @Component public class SplitRoute extends RouteBuilder { public static final String ROUTE_ID = "SPLIT_ROUTE"; public static final String DIRECT_SPLIT = "direct:split"; public static final String DIRECT_SENDER = "direct:sender"; @Override public void configure() throws Exception { from(DIRECT_SPLIT) .routeId(ROUTE_ID) .split().method(SplitIterator.class, "splitMessage") .to(DIRECT_SENDER); } }

The route tested splits incoming messages in a new message for each 60 characters. The ‘direct’ scheme used in this example is useful for synchronous communication between routes. An important point is to add the adviceWith method which changes the output to mock:result URI. The scheme ‘mock’ in the URI is required when mocking. The @DirtiesContext is needed for the clean-up of the application context after a test.

Camel routes are not always easy to test in my opinion but there are support classes provided for JUnit. Like the ‘CamelTestSupport’ which provides a ‘CamelContext’ and a ‘ProducerTemplate’, the ‘ProducerTemplate’ is used to provide messages and these can be used as input for a route. Mocking classes are also provided and there is the CamelSpringRunner class for integration tests (Used in the example).

The future

Apache Camel could be very useful in a system with microservices. In this case you have many services working together and Camel can play a role in integration. For example when creating a API Gateway like described in this article: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2016/11/07/microservices-comparing-diy-with-apache-camel/. The example in the linked article really shows that it’s possible to create an elegant solution to do multiple calls to different services and combine the results. It also shows that Apache Camel provides support for circuit breaking like Hystrix. Another nice addition is a component for communicating with a cache provider like Ehcache. For the future of Apache Camel I think it would be benefical to have more components for communication with cloud services. For AWS services, some components are available, but for Microsoft Azure and the Google Cloud platform not so much. Developers are still quite actively committing in the Apache Camel project so I expect more components will become available. An alternative to Apache Camel is for example Spring Integration, which has similar features, but people tend to favor the syntax of Apache Camel. Another alternative is Mule ESB, but this is a more ready-to-use platform than a framework.

Apache Camel looks like a solid framework, with a nice fluent API. It provides support for a lot of data sources. I would suggest using it in a service that is communicating and receiving data from/to a lot of different sources. For example, an API gateway or an aggregator service.

More information about Apache Camel can be found here : http://camel.apache.org/articles.

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