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Two Crows Watch from the Gallows Tree (part 8)



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Tue May 03, 2022 4:21 pm
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Ky shook her head. Why should she be?

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Tue May 03, 2022 4:23 pm
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"Perhaps after the dark months you should peruse that section of the library then, and see if you'd like to befriend any of our other bogeymen." He cracked a wry smile. "I'm sure not all the stories are true."
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:25 pm
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Ky smiled sheepishly. “Not sure I should push my luck… unless Rönn wants to introduce me. I wonder if he’s friends with them.”

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:26 pm
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"Perhaps we should ask him." He hadn't even considered that as a topic--what an excellent idea! "Have you made use of the stone system at all since your arrival?"
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:28 pm
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Ky shook her head. She hadn’t thought she could do that without asking permission. “I can… do they whenever I want?”

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:31 pm
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"I believe he said he would signal you when not to come every other week, and you ought to signal for him to meet you only when it's important," he mused. "I've ordered a stag or doe to be sent over the walls each night so at least he's eating consistently."
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:32 pm
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“Thank you.” Ky smiled at that, glad that Gaius was taking care of her friend.

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:34 pm
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He dipped his head. "We have food to spare, for now. It will be more difficult later in the winter, but he won't be competing with human hunters then."
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:38 pm
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Ky nodded, pretending that the thought didn’t twist her stomach up into a knot. Perhaps she should have stopped eating sooner. “Makes sense.”

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:41 pm
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"We ought to be fine, though. We always have been before. That's the thing about being rich--you only worry about food spoiling, not running out."
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:45 pm
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Ky nodded. That was never something she worried about much, even when she was poor. Sure, there was less food and the meals were a lot smaller, but she was also working less, so she wasn’t intolerably hungry. And then thankfully Makata and Aleth both believed they got better work out of slaves that were healthy and fed, so she didn’t have to worry about it then, either. She supposed it’d be a bigger deal here, though. It’s not like they could bop over to the next town to barter, if the town happened to run too low on food, like that one winter when she was eight. “That’s nice. Seems like it causes less anxiety that way.”

"u and rina are systematically watering down the grammar of yws" - Atticus
"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:47 pm
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"I suppose it does." Gaius was just glad he had servants, friends, and family to eat what he had. He would do better as a peasant, he was sure--he had done better as a peasant, though Anneke's mother and Sara's family had both insisted he eat everything they gave him, even if they were starving.
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:49 pm
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“How long until winter?”

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"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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Gaius thought for a moment. "Well, it's winter now. But the sun sinks in three months."
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Tue May 03, 2022 4:52 pm
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Gods. That was such inconvenient timing. The probability of Zander returning in the next three months was slim. So she’d be trapped here. “So I’ll be here for at least seven?”

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"From the fish mother to the fish death god." - lehmanf
"A fish stole my identity. I blame shady" - Omni
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