by Eridi | Jan 15, 2021 | Content, Legacy of a Child Bride: Eridi’s Journal (Journal)
It may have been awhile since I last wrote in my journal. Somehow it doesn’t seem as important anymore. I am focusing single-mindedly on my lessons, and things seem much simpler. My routine has changed. I am having morning meal with Anchoress Samarra each day. We visit and drink tea, and have something to eat, and then I go off to, what for me, is school. I practice my language and my positions and I find great joy in them. I have read back in my journal and I have to laugh at some of the things I have said about being afraid… (MORE)
by Eridi | Dec 15, 2020 | Content, Legacy of a Child Bride: Eridi’s Journal (Journal)
The Thirteenth Dragonhorse. That’s who my mother says I will be gifted to. Apparently there has been some sort of disturbance surrounding him, and he is not on his home planet, which is Equus. I’ve never heard of it, but my mother has. She says that in the long ago time a bride-gift was sent to the Twelfth Dragonhorse. Our history says that she did not please him and so he killed… (MORE)
by Eridi | Nov 15, 2020 | Content, Legacy of a Child Bride: Eridi’s Journal (Journal)
Father is suspicious of me, I know it. He has started watching me out of the corner of his eye, and coming to my training sessions and asking questions of my trainers. I can see them talking, though I cannot hear what is being said. He sits with folded arms and watches me as I go through my poses. I practice my breathing and my vocabulary of seduction, and he leans forward and puts his hands in his lap. I remember his words to me – that he would be the one who took my… (MORE)
by Eridi | Oct 15, 2020 | Content, Legacy of a Child Bride: Eridi’s Journal (Journal)
I can still hear him – my father – yelling at my mother. She was crying, and when I saw her later she was bruised and bleeding, and it is my fault. My father, who rarely even acknowledges my existence, much less asks me to sit and chat for a bit, asked me how I was enjoying my training. Now, I know I’m not supposed to mention that my mother is sneaking me off to school when she can, and that we practice in secret the letters and… (MORE)
by Eridi | Sep 15, 2020 | Content, Legacy of a Child Bride: Eridi’s Journal (Journal)
Mother and I nearly got caught today. I thought it was kind of fun, hiding from my father’s palace guards, but my mother was truly terrified. I know that going to school is forbidden to me – at least school in the sense that it applies to males – but my mother thinks it is important for… (MORE)
by Krush Ah'Din Teal | Nov 26, 2018 | Content, From the Kitchen at Canyon keep
This morning she sent Ah’din and me off to check on the cheeses curing in one of the stone barns. We hurried through the tunnel, giggling like school girls, and when we got to the area where the cheeses were stored we spent some time unwrapping each one to check its cure. Unwrapping those rounds of cheese was like unwrapping the sun and the moon – so white and so orange. Din suggested that we bring one of the sharp cures back and make some rosemary cheese bread, so we did. We had it for supper this evening, and it was wonderful. I thought perhaps you would like the recipe.
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