Shirley Meier's Blog, page 63

Yule Calling On

Good people, pray heed my petition
your attention I beg and I crave
and if you are inclined to peruse this
and abundance of pastime we'll have!

I have come to relate many stories
of times that have not yet been said
and I trust they will drive out your worries
I welcome readers in my head!
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My apologies to Steeleye Span and mummers and buskers everywhere!


It is once

401 - I Still Had to Try

I went to the Chamberlain's office that afternoon.  I'd kept the Minakas outfit on... I didn't really need to but it felt safer somehow.  Even if Skorsas knew exactly who I was.  I tapped on his door.  Feeling weirdly like I was in the Mezem, being taught how to request permission to enter.  Chances of his being in were slight, but one of his assistants should be, and able to track him down.

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400 - Phoenix Rising

Inensa looked the most stony I had ever seen her, even when I had been under her wardship.  "Thank you for receiving me, Sera Inensa.""Of course, Serina Liren.  As far as I am allowed I welcome your visit." She rose, like a paper doll unfolding.  "Would the Serina care to come to the solar?  I am working on a tapestry.""Ah. Yes, I shall.  Very appropriate."We walked to the end of the Mahid

Author's Note

I'm back safe in Toronto... and exhausted.  I won't make the drive up to my home tonight so tomorrow's post will be fairly late.  It's snowing and I don't want to fight that in the dark.


But I did say I'd be back on a normal schedule by Thursday...

 

399 - A Great Career

The road up to the Pages hadn't changed since I delivered packages as a Dyer and I hadn't had need to do any more than hand it to the porter at the door.  One thing that had changed since the Sack was that the entrance was no longer hidden inside another building.  That had been re-built with black and white granite columns, with 'PAGES' carved into the lintel above the door.  The smaller

398 - Should the Emerald be Deemed Sufficient

I walked mother back up to her room in the Mahid quarters, suppressing my reaction.  I was cold.  Not in shock.  Just cold relief. Rather than just leave her there alone, now that she was speaking to me, I went in to sit.She was pale and I wondered what was going through her mind.  He had brutalized her as much or more than he had brutalized me… and my father had done as bad or worse before

397 - The Penumbral Occulary

The plant material crushed well under the back of a spoon.  Normally such poisons would be best and most quickly crushed between the teeth, carefully, without swallowing of course, and the resulting pulp spat into the alcohol.  But in her condition anything taken into the mouth had to be carefully considered.  Things could too easily be absorbed through the wet membranes.Inensa scraped the

396 - Chevenga and His Escort left Early

Chevenga and his escort left early next morning but I wasn't awake to see him off.  Gannara said he wasn't going to see me force myself out of bed to do the work-out that I could with Kallijas.  Between the broken bone and the stress I was under, and not sleeping... he sent a note up and by the time my bed had been made up again.Then he and... and... Farasha... came to bed with me.  Just to

395 - You Killed Me

It was as if the sound threw him back into his loves' arms and they caught him once more.  The noise went on and on.  There were tears on my own face and on Marnas's.  Chevenga had taught us that it was possible to weep without being diminished and we wept with him as he took in our heart's wishes that he live.  He was laughing and crying at the same time.I could barely hear what he said to

394 - Bright with the Wish for Life

I let myself in to the loosebox and found that the horse was short-tied.  I hadn't noticed but he had to stretch to get his head out of the opening, the rope on his halter creaking.  He'd wanted to greet me that much.  The stableboy had gone somewhere which was all right with me.I let the horse loose and he put his head down on my shoulder and groaned.  He wasn't as well cared for as I would