The Seekers of Fire
“The sound of its fall was only a tinkle, but a second later it grew as it reverberated through the rest of the buckets, while apprehension propagated through the people. Linden tensed. For several moments nothing happened, and then she felt a sharp jab in the ribs and smelled old Gara's foul breath. "Ts, ts," she hissed in her ear, "can't even hold the bucket properly. Always making trouble. Your mother should've—" Linden relaxed a bit and managed to ignore the pain in her head, stooping to put... her stiff fingers around the bucket's cold handle. In a strange way she felt happy that old Gara was here, although anywhere else the woman hardly rose to the level of a nuisance. Linden smiled. "Well met, Mistress Gara. May the Master always shed his light on you." Perhaps Gara did not like more light than necessary being shed on her old and ugly figure, or she simply resented impertinent girls who answered her nagging with a common greeting. Whatever the reason, she had a speech prepared for moments like this, and the nervous silence and grim faces around would not stop her from saying it.MoreLess
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