Something has been going on in Mistral Village. It started with restless nights and gradually evolved into sleep struggles, vivid dreams, worsening nightmares. Some are now complaining they have waking dreams or often even struggle to wake up. Elowen, the local apothecary, is but a child trying to...

56 Vhalar 724

Dan gazed along the rows of swollen turnips stretching away from him across the field, and then dropped his gaze to the basket at his feet and sighed. Clearly, it was time to harvest them, which meant just as clearly that today's trial was going to be one of those long and repetitive...

27 Ashan 724

This thread is responding to Rharne's Rebirth 724 calendar , specifically this part: Ashan Weather
The Stormwastes, now are a properly fertilized area, temperate with slightly hotter temperatures than the rest of Rharne, but experiencing periodic rainstorms. In fact, the sun doesn't...

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Saun 22, Arc 724

This, Cassander thought as he followed his temporary travel companion down the road, along the river that flowed just past Mistral Village, was not what he had expected Mid-Saun to be like. Saun was supposed to be the hottest season of the arc. He could remember nearly sweating...

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In concept and theory, rammed earth walls were simple. You set up a mould called a form so that the earth actually packed down, rather than just going lower and wider. You shovelled earth into the form, hammered it with a ram until it was...

40 Ymiden 724
Wealth Skill: Fieldcraft

Dan hammered a heavy wooden peg into the ground at an angle, using it to secure one corner of a large net. He glanced up at the approaching herd of flying pigs - or should it be called a flock, if they were in the air? - and tried to judge how much time he...

That morning dragged out longer than usual and the only one at fault was Elowen. She was stalling. And she knew it. She looked around the shack again. Her workstation was spotless. The floors were swept. Her pallet was a mess but that was only because Pea began dragging in twigs and leaves. But...

It was a cooler early Ymiden trial that found Elowen in the herb slash wildflower garden. Clothed in her usual headscarf and loose fitting clothes, she really should have had at least one more layer on. Alas, she never had a problem with cold. At least not in the same way Meira or the other...

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The carrot wine is ready, Cal told Dan over breakfast. They were eating buckwheat porridge with milk from the sheep. Raisins had been stirred into it, and Cal spooned up porridge with one hand as he signed with the other. Do you want to...

Elowen cast a bowl full of grains into the hen pen, frowning fiercely and muttering to herself. Won't have this. Won't have that. What in Idalos...

Since that night when her and Pea, a nickname she had given the bird, had that little stand off about healing, Elowen had been trying to feed it but...

She did not pay much attention to where she was going on the return. She trusted the forest would care for her, not because she just saved one of its residents. But because they were both hurt and in sore need of help.

The little Pea in her arms was in a bad shape. Not hurt, but its body was weak...

It has been a trial or two since a mean storm swept over the Mistral Woods. Fair raindrops soaked the earth and lightning lit up the sky with vicious flashes. Elowen liked to sit with her eyes closed and listen to it all. The ruckus and chaos of it, surprisingly it brought her calm. And although...

We're counting on you, you know.

It kept repeating in her mind over and over. People's expectations. What they needed her to do. Who they needed her to be. But without Meira...the whole place was empty. There was no morning clinking of pots, no asks for eggs, no directions for mixtures. There was...

It was late. The sun was streaming into the shack. The chickens clucked outside asking for their morning feed. Yet nothing moved. Not Elowen, nor Meira. Not even the dust particles that were the give away of life. They have settled long time ago.

Meira was lying on the bed in her room just as she...

She slept on her pallet that night. Although the dead body next door started to give off a peculiar smell , it did not reach the center room yet. And Elowen was getting used to the idea of Meira staying where she was.

She even woke up with the sunrise that day and brushed her fire red hair in the...

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Dan didn't bother to peel the carrots for this. They were going to be cooked to a mush, which would soften any thicker skinned areas, and anyway this was for making wine rather than food - though he rather suspected that any solids left...