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"Please stop following me," she says. The kid hasn't listened so far, but hope springs eternal, right?
no not that iomedae. i mean like cosmically kind of the same iomedae but they're different iomedaes
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"And so I intend to live in the woods, and kill monsters, and never interact with an army or a city ever again."
the-serpent-neath-his-heel
"If somebody helps you out, and you ask why, and he says you're going to do me a favor, the favor's worse than what he helped you with."
seen-in-the-watchfires
Beða isn't actually sure what that means! It also seems like he doesn't want to talk about it.
"...is the venison done?"
seen-in-the-watchfires
"I don't mind that as long as it doesn't make me lose my guts."
the-serpent-neath-his-heel
"Then dinner is served."
Dinner is served. The venison is, as promised, slightly rare. The water is wined appropriately, since neither of them is a priest. They roast a couple of roots in the coals after, for snacking tomorrow.
seen-in-the-watchfires
It's a better meal than she's had since the last she had across her family's dinner table.
Aḥyl must be a good cook.
seen-in-the-watchfires
Beða wakes up with... something in her head. There's something she can do. The sun is rising. While the sun rises, she can do something. It's important. She needs to do it.
"Aaaaaaaa?" she asks.
the-serpent-neath-his-heel
Aḥyl wakes up and promptly levitates a rock. "Monster?" he asks blearily.
the-serpent-neath-his-heel
"Okay."
Saying this, he casually tosses aside the rock and goes back to sleep.
seen-in-the-watchfires
There will be no help from the preadolescent corner today, apparently.
Okay. She... can do something. It's important that she do it now.
She does not trust this.
If it were important for her to walk over towards something, and she had never walked, she could... wiggle her foot. Can she wiggle the important thing.
the-last-of-the-first
She can wiggle the important thing. Kind of. There's an action that makes it slightly clearer what she's supposed to be doing with it? She's got all these choices, see-
seen-in-the-watchfires
She has wiggled the thing. She is no longer wiggling the thing.
seen-in-the-watchfires
Okay. The thing-appendage still really wants her to do the thing. And she has choices.
Do you know what else is a choice?
Going and taking a nice cold bath in the river. And seeing if she can catch a fish. She's heard you can kind of wiggle your fingers so they look like worms, then punch the fish in the face. That sounds fun.
the-last-of-the-first
:((((((((
The Important Thing decreases in salience as the sun rises further above the horizon. By the time the sky's fully blue, it doesn't even register. Also, she has three fish.
seen-in-the-watchfires
Fish!
She brings them back to the fire, then nudges Aḥyl in the side with her foot. "Wake up, I have fish."
the-serpent-neath-his-heel
"It is very wicked to kick children," Aḥyl complains as he sits up. He falls forward so his face is on his knees. "You are being wicked."
seen-in-the-watchfires
"I told you I would and I told you I was," she says smugly. "Don't go back to sleep or I'll do it again."