Claire Fayers
Technically, they’re not penguins, they’re evil, hypnotic, carnivorous fish-birds. But I know I’m fooling nobody. They’re penguins, and they’re at the North Pole.
There are two reasons for this.
1. I love penguins. They are nature’s perfect blend of sinister and cute.
2. My pirates had to go north. There’s something far grander about a quest to the top of the world than the bottom. And the Onion is following the path of the legendary mariner Orion, who sailed his ship all the way to the top of the world until he sailed up into the sky and became a constellation. Imagine what it would do to the stories if he’d sailed south and fallen off the bottom of the world instead.
There are two reasons for this.
1. I love penguins. They are nature’s perfect blend of sinister and cute.
2. My pirates had to go north. There’s something far grander about a quest to the top of the world than the bottom. And the Onion is following the path of the legendary mariner Orion, who sailed his ship all the way to the top of the world until he sailed up into the sky and became a constellation. Imagine what it would do to the stories if he’d sailed south and fallen off the bottom of the world instead.
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