Post by Anna on Apr 30, 2021 0:07:58 GMT -6
Mother's Dwelling was not an insignificant place.
It brought in people, often, finding shelter while going through her forest. They were all allowed to pass through; the forest itself was always meant to be a home, Anna thought. She could not find it in her to deny these people passage--contingent on one unspoken rule: you don't touch the cottage.
Anna, at times, found herself gardening around her cabin, keeping just carrots and lettuce. She never had much time to be mucking around in the dirt outside her house, dirt caking her hands and keeping her fingers almost always dirt-stained. Her time was best spent maintaining safe grounds at night and, well, hunting. Anna, her hands digging and pulling dirt and rocks from the earth in front of her, was planting another row of wild carrots she found at the edges of her forest. She sprinkled bird's eggshells across the freshly churned earth, her care for the land showing as she checked the leaves of the carrots, making sure they showed no signs of death or rot but the simple stress the transplant caused.
The carrots, clearly, came back around the edges of her forest, which meant an easy harvest for Anna. Somehow the plant knew where it was, the sky emitting just enough light at times to keep the plants alive and well as the shallow light showed itself in other ways; the dark, large leaves that covered the forest floor in vines and plants. Anna didn't know what they did, if they did anything special. It didn't particularly matter.
As the day moved into afternoon, Anna heard distant sticks and leaves being shifted and stepped on. A crow cawed in the distance, startled, and it snapped Anna's head to the spot where a creature walked, looking... strange, and ill. Anna's hackles rose as she strafed to the bottom step of her cottage, cocking her arm back; a motion her muscles repeated often, and knew well. She held her arm back, keeping her axe trained on the thing, her eyes glinting in the faint light that the sky emitted. She took a deep breath, her lip curling, and called out to it.
"You! Business, Mother know now! Show yourself!"
It brought in people, often, finding shelter while going through her forest. They were all allowed to pass through; the forest itself was always meant to be a home, Anna thought. She could not find it in her to deny these people passage--contingent on one unspoken rule: you don't touch the cottage.
Anna, at times, found herself gardening around her cabin, keeping just carrots and lettuce. She never had much time to be mucking around in the dirt outside her house, dirt caking her hands and keeping her fingers almost always dirt-stained. Her time was best spent maintaining safe grounds at night and, well, hunting. Anna, her hands digging and pulling dirt and rocks from the earth in front of her, was planting another row of wild carrots she found at the edges of her forest. She sprinkled bird's eggshells across the freshly churned earth, her care for the land showing as she checked the leaves of the carrots, making sure they showed no signs of death or rot but the simple stress the transplant caused.
The carrots, clearly, came back around the edges of her forest, which meant an easy harvest for Anna. Somehow the plant knew where it was, the sky emitting just enough light at times to keep the plants alive and well as the shallow light showed itself in other ways; the dark, large leaves that covered the forest floor in vines and plants. Anna didn't know what they did, if they did anything special. It didn't particularly matter.
As the day moved into afternoon, Anna heard distant sticks and leaves being shifted and stepped on. A crow cawed in the distance, startled, and it snapped Anna's head to the spot where a creature walked, looking... strange, and ill. Anna's hackles rose as she strafed to the bottom step of her cottage, cocking her arm back; a motion her muscles repeated often, and knew well. She held her arm back, keeping her axe trained on the thing, her eyes glinting in the faint light that the sky emitted. She took a deep breath, her lip curling, and called out to it.
"You! Business, Mother know now! Show yourself!"