The family house

October 26, 2020 trade school
People were starting to do sailory things around me, so I stuffed the monkey in my work-bag and went to have a look at Essle. It mostly looked dirty from where we were, not as grimy as Albetire but still grey and grim. The sea-water was the colour of mud,…

In sight of Essle

October 25, 2020 trade school
There are lots of things people can earn their living with, but I’m very sure I’m not going to do it as a sailor. I was only a little seasick but it’s not the work for me. I know that a person can learn to understand any kind of work…

Home before Winter

October 6, 2020 baby runners selday
And after that, we rushed home. It felt like a rush, and we were in a rush, because now we really wanted to be home before the Feast of Naigha. Of course… There were still villages to visit, and there was larger village, almost a town, where we stayed a…

Crime and Punishment

September 1, 2020 baby runners selday
Back in Tal Ryth, we found that Captain Ferin and his (and our) troops had captured six bandits and had invested the village itself, so another twenty, twenty-five bandits (well, men, women and children, even babies) were kept in place for us. The captured bandits, interestingly enough, were a raiding…

Rain, rain, rain. And work.

August 24, 2020 baby runners selday
In the end, Moyri came with me to the leper village. Either captain Ferin could catch the bandits on his own with the soldiers, our band and the villages, or he would just investigate and not do anything yet, but it made no sense for us to separate. Not when…

Kiss me at your peril

August 13, 2020 baby runners selday Uncategorized
So… Erne’s family stayed in the new village. It needs a better name! Tal-Rayen is like, so old-fashioned. Every other village in Valdyas is called New Village! But they’re doing well, and we gained and lost some people in our travelling school. I really should make a list! There are…

The bossiest woman in the world

July 26, 2020 baby runners selday tal borin
The next day, after going over a mountain crest, we arrived in Tal-Borin Parva; a village consisting mostly of a joiner’s workshop, a smithy and two or three other workshops. The smith is Rava, and she’s in the Guild of Anshen. The joiner, that’s Lochan, his wife is called Lara,…

Bandits and Sneak Thieves

July 5, 2020 baby runners selday tal borin
We’d heard in the village about Perain and his band of outlaws, so we were even more diligent in scouting and posting guards. Great fun was had by all, but I was fretting… Were I going to have to hang more people? Would our apprentices have to fight and wound,…

Are Ishey Baths Civilized?

July 3, 2020 baby runners selday
When we had clothed the ragged and fed the curious, and when the inn-keeper finally realized it was the baroness who was giving his guests treats, we felt it was time to be just the two of us together. And have a bath. And a shave… So we asked the…

Clothing the Ragged

June 27, 2020 baby runners selday
Between Habali and Hokaji were a lot of smaller villages. And we took our time in every one; it will very likely be the only time Moyri and I will have this chance to meet the people in our barony! And it’s really beginning to feel like ours — perhaps…