Closer to the water now, she looked back to see Erek waiting on the trail, he smiled back to her his best smile. The lake knew Erek did not need healing anymore, the lake made Erek feel love, but it also made him stay on the trail, today was for Briaunna. Briaunna felt such a joyous feeling that she smiled back to Erek her best smile; she didn’t know that she was floating towards the glowing water. She was moving her feet in her normal gate; her feet were not in contact with the ground anymore. When Brie turned back to the lake, she was standing in waist deep water, a euphoria settled in her.The next morning Erek noticed he didn’t have to help Brie as much, he didn’t need to carry as much gear either, old Percy must have had a change of heart and decided to carry some gear himself. Erek walked beside Percy, Brie was sitting on the old horse with poise and a strength that had not been there the night before. It was then that Erek knew, come what may, bringing Briaunna here was the rig

Pushing his way through the doorway, Rognvald immediately saw the only fire that was burning, and the lone figure that sat near the tub. The figure by the tub did not move when Rognvald entered, it sat unmoving, giving him another shiver. The room felt cool, even with the fire burning, the light didn’t reach far from the pit were it burned. The smell of the fire was subtle, it was a common fragrance throughout the village, Rognvald went to stoke the fire. He thought, let’s get some light in here, and drive out that chill.“Leave it, we won’t be here that long.” The figure spoke, before the figure stood, it bent down and picked something up out of the tub. It was a small bundle of some kind.Rognvald stood straight after the figure spoke. He dropped the log he was holding and watched the figure bend down and pick up a bundle from the tub, then the figure stood. As Rog watched, the figure materialized into Harden.“Harden! I, ah.” He stammered, “I’m here at your request.”“Don’t sound s

After the reseeding the Land was slow to recover, the growth was hampered by weak light from the distant star, and the things that grew struggled. The skies were hazy and fought hard to keep the light out, but the haze could not keep all of the light from the ground. When some of the things that grew took root, slowly the world recovered, slowly the green things grew and helped to clean the air of the haze. Then and only then, were humans on the Land. The animals that remained were hardy and stout, they had survived an extinction event and it was supposed to be their time to prosper, but the humans were clever and began to learn, grow stronger, and to hunt. The spirit of the planet, Oshwee’laho’ka, could see what would happen before it happened, she could see the humans and their potential. The spirit knew then what she must do, she must keep the humans in small bands and never let them gather in larger groups, for she knew that these large groups would turn into locusts, consuming ev

The two went on talking after that, they commented on the state of the village, the food shortage, and the psyche of Ondu’s people. The Blue eye remembered Lady Utpahl, she was one of the nicer people in the village to her. Secretly, away from the gossips eyes or ears, Lady Utpahl would treat her like a person but as soon as they weren’t alone the Lady would go back to the soft shun that was the Blue eye’s life. But those times were still in her mind, a tear fell from her nose, she had not felt it come, the memories from her time in Ondu where still there. Then she remembered her mother, Sokonan, and a kindly old gentleman named Davyn, and more tears flowed. She could not stop the sniff that came involuntarily this time.“What was that?” Callum asked.“A sniff, like someone sucking in snot.” Bas was about to get up, then he heard a few sticks break and a swift rustle of vegetation, all went quiet.“Who the hell would be sniffing out there?”“No one, or nothing,” Bas said confidently,

“He must see something.”“Or smell something.” Said the second man.He had seen the herd and knew that there were cats watching them, he stayed with the traveler’s. Nothing happened as they began to pass the herd, the caravan made a few of the mighty animals raise their heads but garnered no further attention, it was a rather large herd and they had little to fear from the two-legs. Then time slowed for him, he sensed but did not see something that set the herd off. The huge and heavy buffalo raged from an attack by a solitary male leopard, the cat took down an adolescent near the watering hole. The one dog felt each moment as the buffalo scattered in every direction, a pride of female lions were flanking the buffalo before the leopard’s successful kill ignited the large animals. The huntresses were cautious and opportunistic as the herd trampled everything in their path. He didn’t smell the coyotes until they were in with the caravan grabbing some small dogs and harassing the people