Spirit Gate: book One of Crossroads
“Kesh walked briskly, but for all his travels he had trouble keeping pace with the two bearers who carried the curtained litter.
“Yah, so,” said the talkative one, who walked at the front rails. “Brother and I, you know, it is the tradition out there in the Barrens border country, the village sends lads in to the green lands to work three years, and bring home coin and salt and silk. Maybe a wife, but that’s hard to come by considering green-land women don’t like the Barrens.”
They were short, w...ith broad shoulders and torsos and powerful hands. Talker wasn’t even out of breath, and while Kesh had already broken a sweat under the clear early-morning sky, these two had not bothered with a drink from their leather bottles.
“Probably we’ll marry Lariada, from out by Falls.”
Silent grinned appreciatively.
“Yah, so, she’s a strong girl, and more important a smart one who apprenticed to the Lantern, so she can keep accounts which is a powerful skill to have, to my way of thinking, if a pair of brothers are thinking to tenure good pastureland and build up a herd of cattle like our father and uncles never could do because of the drought back in the Year of the Goat, that would be the Gold Goat before either of us were birthed, not this last one.MoreLess
“Yah, so,” said the talkative one, who walked at the front rails. “Brother and I, you know, it is the tradition out there in the Barrens border country, the village sends lads in to the green lands to work three years, and bring home coin and salt and silk. Maybe a wife, but that’s hard to come by considering green-land women don’t like the Barrens.”
They were short, w...ith broad shoulders and torsos and powerful hands. Talker wasn’t even out of breath, and while Kesh had already broken a sweat under the clear early-morning sky, these two had not bothered with a drink from their leather bottles.
“Probably we’ll marry Lariada, from out by Falls.”
Silent grinned appreciatively.
“Yah, so, she’s a strong girl, and more important a smart one who apprenticed to the Lantern, so she can keep accounts which is a powerful skill to have, to my way of thinking, if a pair of brothers are thinking to tenure good pastureland and build up a herd of cattle like our father and uncles never could do because of the drought back in the Year of the Goat, that would be the Gold Goat before either of us were birthed, not this last one.MoreLess
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