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Commiseration
Rosy and Maren served us jellied cow heart on rye bread steamed in fresh colostrum. I sat beside Yolanda, across from Jarnja and Heith, with Fylja in the middle. Rosy had used her freshly learned healing skills to apply poultices to our scrapes and bruises – "Just like jelly!" she had exclaimed, dabbing them onto Yola, Jarnja, and I's wounds as the three of us sat in such thick silence, it could be cut like fat from an auroch.
We ate without a word until my younger sister could contain her twelve year old exuberance no more.Rosy oogled Yolanda: "Yolanda! My best friend! You are alive, my, why, this is the best day EVER."Yolanda smiled, flexing her biceps, enticing and gorgeous as the midnight sun in a leather tunic and buckskin trousers. A daggertooth dragon fang rested on a thong around her sandstone breast. Yola idly fingered it, then took it off her neck, and draped the necklace over Rosy's curling red locks. Rosy bounced on the balls of hRelated chapters
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