05-04-2013, 08:41 PM
(That's alright, as you can tell I'm kind of having issues catching up with everything! I might disappear here and there, too, so sorry in advance)
Reinn's mother seemed hesitant to let her son leave anymore, but if he'd been fated to a duty elsewhere, she found peace that it was something as noble as keeping them safe. His brother was harder to part with, but after a long hug that found the smaller boy being lifted off his feet, and a few assurances that he'd be back, if only to visit the boy and see his father again, Reinn gave another goodbye to his family as he departed with Chevreuil.
The duo was stopped here and there by curious neighbors wondering why he'd come back alive, and if he was alright. He gave them the same story he'd given his parents the first few times they'd been stopped, but after a while he just diverted them to his home, where they'd be sure to go afterwards anyway. It was when they were at the very edge of the rath that they were stopped by the elder himself, along with his attendants.
"Reinn, boy, what mercy has brought you back to us? I would imagine your presence marks the end of this village, but there has been positive stirrings wherever I have been while looking for you. It seems as though, however, that you're not staying long, why?"
He repeated his story, yet again to the village elder, making certain it held no difference to the two he'd told before it,"So as a result, I have to return to the forest. Truth be told, after being granted this duty, being in the village has left me a little anxious. If you will be so gracious as to allow me continued entrance to the rath to see that my family is well, I will do my best to keep the forest just as thriving."
The elder had no qualms about letting the new steward come and go as he pleased, though he did give a few curious and mildly speculative glances to his partner as they left out of the rath.
Walking slowly back through the field, Reinn looked a little contemplative, worried about the feelings that had filled him as he'd moved through the village. As they reached the forest once more, he simply sat at the first clearing they'd found, seeing nothing much else to do but sit and rest after the unexpected stress of leaving the forest had left his body strung tight.
Eventually, he looked to Chevreuil to ask after his new task,"What else am I to be doing as this supposed guardianship? Am I really to be sitting idly while I grow new life? Women in my rath toil just as hard as any man in the field, and in the home, even after they begin carrying children. They work until their pains come and only then do they stop. It's something to be respected, but if I'm to stay here in the forest, I have none of that to do. Surely I can't be completely idle for three quarters of a year?"
Reinn's mother seemed hesitant to let her son leave anymore, but if he'd been fated to a duty elsewhere, she found peace that it was something as noble as keeping them safe. His brother was harder to part with, but after a long hug that found the smaller boy being lifted off his feet, and a few assurances that he'd be back, if only to visit the boy and see his father again, Reinn gave another goodbye to his family as he departed with Chevreuil.
The duo was stopped here and there by curious neighbors wondering why he'd come back alive, and if he was alright. He gave them the same story he'd given his parents the first few times they'd been stopped, but after a while he just diverted them to his home, where they'd be sure to go afterwards anyway. It was when they were at the very edge of the rath that they were stopped by the elder himself, along with his attendants.
"Reinn, boy, what mercy has brought you back to us? I would imagine your presence marks the end of this village, but there has been positive stirrings wherever I have been while looking for you. It seems as though, however, that you're not staying long, why?"
He repeated his story, yet again to the village elder, making certain it held no difference to the two he'd told before it,"So as a result, I have to return to the forest. Truth be told, after being granted this duty, being in the village has left me a little anxious. If you will be so gracious as to allow me continued entrance to the rath to see that my family is well, I will do my best to keep the forest just as thriving."
The elder had no qualms about letting the new steward come and go as he pleased, though he did give a few curious and mildly speculative glances to his partner as they left out of the rath.
Walking slowly back through the field, Reinn looked a little contemplative, worried about the feelings that had filled him as he'd moved through the village. As they reached the forest once more, he simply sat at the first clearing they'd found, seeing nothing much else to do but sit and rest after the unexpected stress of leaving the forest had left his body strung tight.
Eventually, he looked to Chevreuil to ask after his new task,"What else am I to be doing as this supposed guardianship? Am I really to be sitting idly while I grow new life? Women in my rath toil just as hard as any man in the field, and in the home, even after they begin carrying children. They work until their pains come and only then do they stop. It's something to be respected, but if I'm to stay here in the forest, I have none of that to do. Surely I can't be completely idle for three quarters of a year?"