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Frostridge

Selene looked saddened at his words, knowing all too well what losing one's family meant.
That was before he startled her from her thoughts by all his other questions, causing her to chuckle a bit.
"Our Elders decide a lot, but not who we marry. It's just that the village depends on its people. I am no leatherworker or smith or doctor or teacher. We all have a trade and perform a certain amount of hours of labour or fruits of our labour to pay up the toll for the tribute." She explained. "I provide the wool of our sheep, I don't have to give up everything, but we all supply goods and services for the tribute. Yesterday was our toll day where you have to bring in your goods and get a supply of rations from the rest. Because I supplied more wool and a couple of sheep last year, I was able to pay for things I can't make myself, like those boots you're wearing and some more meat and potatoes." She smiled knowingly.
"Oh sure it isn't freedom, but I didn't hear you complain last night or this morning about the food you consumed or the tea and milk you drank. Bella I traded for early on, because I wanted to have more say in what I could offer up as tribute. The Elders only kick a fuss when you can't pay and it is not like they'll evict you. They just try to find out what works best. Also normally girls want to get matched up because they look forwards to a life of their own, away from their family. It's just that I am the exception." She smiled at that.
"It is all Ella thinks about, getting swept off her feet by a handsome young stranger at the Tribute feasts, though she reads far too many novels, I wanted to indulge her this year by letting her attend with a new dress. The Elders sort of encourage the young people to mingle during these feasts so that the future of the village is guaranteed. They'll even invite neighbouring villages in order to get some new blood in." Selene explained as she started walking along the fence knowing that there were some berry bushes nearby and intending to get some.
"So you're free to live your life more or less." She ended looking at him with a gentle smile. "It isn't so bad."

Frostridge

Selene sighed as she walked over to the shed doors and opened them completely, allowing him to ask his questions, as she opened up the fence for the flock again. As on cue the sheep followed the fence work, eager to go outside and head towards the pasture.
"Well technically it's not our land. Our family more or less is allowed to use it from the village, the land we do own is the land we're standing on and the farm itself." She said as she turned to him, nodding for him to come along as she walked on the otherside of the fencework along with the flock.
Waiting for him to catch up she took a deep breath and started explaining what happened.
"My mother and father died, they were attacked by those creatures and killed, it happened 6 years ago when I was 15, they had gone out to help out a family that otherwise had trouble getting stuff ready for the yearly tribute. Being the kindhearted people that they were they went to help out for at least a week at that point, but they didn't return.
The Elders send out a search party and found their bodies, their wreaths torn from their necks." She shivered as she told him this.
"The Elders suggested we would be taken in by other families, but I wouldn't have it. I didn't want to lose my brother and sister after already having lost our parents. So, I made a deal. I would fill that roll, pay the yearly tribute and we would be allowed to remain the way we were. If I would fail in my duties, well...let's just say I have still managed to pay the toll each year." She stated proudly as she raised her chin up with some pride.
"Though girls in our village start to get 'paired up or matched' when they reach the age of 18. So far I've been able to avoid their matchmaking schemes, but I know from my friend that they'll start to demand I find someone. That's what Edric meant with his teasing." She sighed as they entered the green pasture in one of the open area's of the woods. It had been fenced all around and divided into section for quicker and easier retrieval.
Leaning against the fence she stared out over the pasture.
"I love my brother and sister, truly, I might act and look like a harpy, but its only because I am very well aware of what is at stake. What I have to lose and wanting to keep my family for as long as I can." She looked down before she looked at him.
"Which is why you shouldn't feel any obligation towards me, make your own decisions. Don't let me keep you from doing things you need to do. I just have to play 'mom' all the time that I sometimes forget that people should have a say in their own lives." Before mumbling.
"Besides for all I know I am keeping you away from your own loved ones and that wouldn't be fair of me if I did."

Frostridge

"Well you'd always be welcome." She said as he took the dishes out of her hands. "Though the decision is really up to yourself. Anyway, I have to go and take the flock out to the pasture." She said as she stood up and heard the rumbling coming from the upperfloor, clearly her siblings were up.
"Ella! Stop taking dad's vest, it's mine, you have mom's!" Came the complaint from Edric as Ella sprinted downstairs, clearly having healed well enough from her troubles yesterday to be up to her regular misschief again, with Edric limping behind her. Ella bolted down the stairs clearly wearing a woolen vest that was two sizes to big for her slender frame.
Selene sighed before taking a spoon and slamming it down upon the dinnertable drawing the attention of the others to her.
"Edric stop shouting and Ella give Edric back his vest or so help me I will make you do all the washing for a month and chain you to the bloody tub!"
Ella looked horrified.
"You can't that's slave labour!"
"Do you really want to test my patience Ella? DO you?" Selene warned as she put her hands on her hips, before turning to Edric and saying.
"Sorry Edric, but I am claiming Dad's vest for now for Captain Malcom. He's coming with me to tend the flock and he'll need something warmer than only a shirt."
Edric's eyes widened, he hadn't noticed Malcom yet, since the man was standing out of view for the two.
"You mean he's up?"
Selene nodded before she winced as the two hurried towards the diningtable to ask her, but now saw the man in question standing a few feet from them.
"He doesn't stink anymore...and didn't he have longer hair a beard?" Ella asked, having barely seen the man and trying to recall what she remembered from last night.
"Yes, but he cleaned up nicely." Selene said. "So why don't you give him dad's vest, as Edric said you don't need it since you have mom's." Selene pointed out and watched her sister frown, before taking it off and moving over to him.
"Hi, my name is Ella, nice to meet you Captain and thank you for helping us." Ella said with a bright blush on her cheeks.
Edric rolled his eyes at it and said.
"You're just as bad as she is." Edric said to Ella pointing at Selene, earning him a glare from his older sister that he ignored before asking. "She didn't push you into anything right? You're free to say no, you don't have to be shackled down to harpy like her." This earned him a swing, that he quickly dodged.
"See, she's as violent as they come!"
"I will show you violent you miscreant!" Selene said grabbing a pillow of the couch and flinging it at her brother, this time hitting him square in the face.
"I need to take the flock out, you two can go and have breakfast, but by the time I come back this place better be spotless!" She threatened.
Ella groaned. "Not more chores..."
Selene glared at her. "Don't complain to me, your actions from yesterday nearly cost us our yearly tribute! So you have a whole lot to pay for Ella. You are hereby under house arrest for a month!"
"That's not fair!"
"After what you did it is more than fair!" Selene threw back. "Ask your brother how badly behind you were!" Selene stated as she pulled on her own vest aggressively and grabbed one of the larger staffs. "I'll be out, I will see you later." She promised as she grabbed Malcom by the arm and dragged him along into the shed, ignoring the whispers from her sister asking her brother about last night.
"Oh, she practically waltzed all over him...that was before she cleaned him up, you should have seen her, the moment that beard had come off her face grew bright red..."

Frostridge

"Husband?" The complete and utter disbelief and puzzlement showed on his face at his words.
"Captain, I don't know who you mean. I live here with my younger brother and sister." She told him calmly with a wary look.
"Can you describe this supposed husband for me?" She asked wondering if the man perhaps thought the assailant they had come accross had been her 'husband'. She shuddered at that thought.
"I can assure you I am not married, though the Elders of the village will undoubtedly at some point start to push me towards a 'beneficial union'."
She handed him some more eggs and broth before replied after a deep intake of breath.
"You're welcome, though I should be thanking you. Your help last night saved us, me and my sister, from a much worse fate I am sure. Whether to be sold off as slaves in the City of the Farlanders or being eaten by the creatures, I am sure were fates fixed for us had you not intervened. As for the clothes, they were our father's. Edric is still too small for them and well you were stinking up the place with the rags you were wearing. Even if I had managed to get the stench and filth out, they were beyond repair, so you needed a new set of clothing." She stated though it was clear that it did not leave her unaffected.
Still she smiled at him melancholicly. "Besides I would be a horrible person if I forced you to walk around naked."
She heard the kettle whistle and poured them both a cup of herbal tea.
She bit her lip pondering the thoughts that had entered her head now that he seemed more sensible.
"Captain, might I ask you something?" She asked after a long silence.
"Would...would you be opposed to staying here? Should you have no proper home to go back to. We...we could use the extra hands here at the farm." She offered as she fidgeted with her fingers nervously. She wondered if she was mad, maybe she was being unnecessarily worried about the Elders and their future plans for her and her siblings.

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Post a random fact about yourself.

I prefer not to sleep in the dark. I need a small light, but will pull the covers over my head.
I blame my overactive mind and having witnessed weird stuff for one. And I am normally as skeptical as they come.

Frostridge

Selene had pulled an all nighter.
After having cleaned him up dried him off and dressing him, she had put him to bed with the help of Edric.
"Please be a little more reasonable when you wake up..." She pleaded, before adding. "Sleep well..."
"Malcom." Edric finished for her, causing her to look at him bewildered, before he showed her the tag.
She frowned at him.
"Don't just take things without asking!" She hissed.
He looked rather miffed at that.
"I didn't. He gave them to me when I asked for his name." He said pushing the tags in her hands and yawned. "Anyway I'm off to bed, I gave Ella a couple of extra pillows and blankets, so you can worry all about him."
"The guy..."
"Captain Malcom." Her brother corrected her.
"CAPtain Malcom's fever hasn't broken yet, I need not remind you of what happened to you when you were hit by one of those things."
Edric shuddered before turning around deciding to leave his sister, but not before getting a final jab in.
"Fine, I don't even wanna be there when you start making googly eyes at him."
"I don't ogle if that's what you mean. I am a decent girl, not some lecherous hussy."
"Keep telling yourself that, I know what I saw back in the shed." Edric added before he ducked inside his room for safety.
"You miserable....!" Selene had hissed, before the man's groaning had drawn her attention and worry.
Reminding herself to pay her little brother back for those comments later she entered her bedroom, having temporarily put him there for the moment.
Placing the dogstags on the stand next to her bed she sat down and checked his forehead.
He was burning up again, mumbling strange things. With a sigh she took a new wet cold cloth from the bowl and placed it on his forehead and started her long watch.
At the earliest hours of the morning Malcolm's fever broke and this allowed Selene to finally get to her other chores.
Opening up the house again as the first rays of daylight greeted her promising safety. She walked to the chickens for their eggs and feed and to milk the cow.
When she finished those chores she brought up new water from the well and brought both buckets in for their breakfast when an unusual sight greeted her at the table.
It nearly frightened her to death.
The man was up...and was talking...properly.
She looked up at the heavens for a silent 'thank you' before entering and putting the buckets onto the kitchen table, a section reserved for the preparation of their food.
Listening to his questions she whispered.
"Please sit down, Captain, you've had quite the fever last night. I'll hand you a spot of breakfast, I'm assuming my other two siblings will still be sleeping. And after last night it is no wonder, though I must confess I didn't expect you up and moving so soon." She answered before putting a mug of milk down for him. "I'll make tea in a minute...here." She handed him a plate and cutlery and set up breakfast, before taking a skillet from the side of the fireplace and prepped it with a slice of butter before shoving it in. She placed some of her bread from yesterday on the table and some jams and cheese as well as a couple of strips of meat. Checking back on her skillet again she started frying some eggs and finally sat down herself, exhausted, but having no choice but to toughen it out.
"So...I am not sure how much you remember, you seem quite different from last night." She started tentively. "But in case you don't remember, my name is Selene, Selene Ramsley."

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I'll be going for our Thief Sheila simply because I like the invisibility cloak.

Frostridge

Edric's eyes widen at the sight of the tags, he's only heard of these metal name plates. When this man however started screaming and convulsing on the floor, Edric yelled at his sister in worry.
"Selene!"
She quickly hurried away from her sister's side trying to hold the man down.
"What did you do?" She yelled at him.
"I? I didn't do anything, he just started..."
"Help me hold him down." She yelled, having trouble keeping the man still.
Her brother quickly knelt down to put a pair of extra hands on him, it was only then that his sister now saw the needle sticking out of the man's neck.
"Oh no..." She groaned knowing this meant that she would have to sit up all night and watch over the guy.
"He's been stung." She pulled the long thin bone needle out and said. "Help me get him up and in the bath, if he's going to be a bother I might aswell scrub him clean whilst keeping an eye on the fever." She said as she and Edric hoisted him up with difficult and took him through to the barn, before dropping him in a sitting position in the tub. Put the kettle on and get some bucket of water from the well." She asked Edric, whilst she kept an eye on the stinger's entrance point.
Grabbing a pair of large scissors she started cutting through his clothing. There was no way in hell she would allow him to be dressed like a scarecrow and smelling like a sewer rat, if the Elders of the Village were to discover him in that state all hell would break loose. No, better that she'd take matters into her own hands.
As she cut his pants away she found her spoon in his pocket looking rather miffed at the ailing man.
"You're lucky you're ill." She warned, dipping a cloth in cold water to put against his forehead.
When Edric returned she told him to keep an eye on him, so she would get some of her father's old clothing, a couple of towels and some more cleaning tools. Gods knew she would need them.
She returned later with a pair of pants, a simple cotton shirt with buttoned sleeves and a pair of leather shoes. As well as her lavender oil, soap and scrubbing cloths and brushes as well as a razor. Oh when she would be done with him he would at least look presentable, provided he wouldn't say anything.
And so she went to work, with her boiling water, she poured it over in buckets with cold, adding and mixing until she had a tolerable temperature pouring it in from there. It took some time, but soon enough the bath was filled and thanks to her lavender oil, the stench had lessened considerably. Now the soap came into play.
To say she was a tad rough would be putting it gently, she went to town on him. Scrubbing him from head to toe and washing all the dirt and muck out of his greasy hair. Soon enough the water turned a murky soapy colour that made Selene wonder if the man had ever been in a bath.
Now a good deal cleaner she took the razor and scissors and tried to bring some order in that ragged mop of hair, took the beard off and for sake of being thorough also trimmed his eyebrows.
Pulling out the cork at the bottom she drained the tub and allowed the water to slush away through the pipes her grandfather had put in place.
Wiping the sweat off her brow she grabbed the towels and started drying him, humming to herself as she did so, before she softly started singing a song her mother had taught, rubbing his back in a comforting way.

"My love I can't do this,
we knew it from the start,
I just can't be with you.
You're not from around here,
you're not one of my kind,
this love's against the law."

"To my heart you're all that is true,
and I won't give up on you,
loving you is all I can do,
you're all that's worth living for."

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