>>6088074“The bees?” You remember from Master’s lessons that Maduan honey is a prized commodity in the Holy Land. Once someone tried to smuggle an entire beehive out of Madua, sell it to the Treviri Throne.
Master refused to tell you what the sentence was for the smugglers, but he assured you it had taken ten days for them to find a sufficiently creative one.
“I’m scared of bees,” she chuckles, rubbing the back of neck as her cheeks turn a faint pink. “Always was. Got stung as a kid, you know.”
“Before they found you in the forest?”
“Before… yes, before that. So, it was full of beehives at the edge of the trees because farmers loved to double as bee keepers for some reason, and I swear by spring I just couldn’t deal with it! I ended up spending most of summer huddled in the middle of the forest where they couldn’t reach. I could deal with boars and wolves just fine, but bees?” She shudders.
“I think they are cute,” you reply, stunned someone could be afraid of bees. It sounds as if she said she was afraid of grass, or the colour red. “And they are useful. And sacred to Ansàrra.”
“W-Well, they keep wheezing and buzzing about, don’t they?” Salicera scoffs. “Right besides your ear. Bzz! Bzz! And you never know when they may decide they don’t like you and turn you into a sponge!”
“I’m sorry,” you pat her on the shoulder. “I will make sure our next mission is as far away from bees as possible.”
“Thanks,” she sighs. “I don’t know why I told you that. I must look like a fool.”
“I am a fool most of the times,” you reply with a shrug. “It has worked well for me so far.”
Salicera smiles and shakes her head. You feel her more at ease with you.
Then you spot something to your right. Covering your eyes with you hand, you squint. Sitting behind a large tree these is someone who looks just like—
“I think he’s there. There’s someone with him, but I don’t think it’s a couple of farm girls like last time.”
“Oh-ho, the old man still got it, doesn’t he?”
“Kishirra’s poleaxe? Certainly!”
Salicera just rolls her eyes.
>Bo6 -- Roll a 1d100, 1 roll per reply per anon.>rolls closer to 0: totally awake>rolls closer to 100: totally asleepyou will see the significance of these rolls in the future.
thanks for playing. writing quests is interesting because you can have the best laid plans and then anon comes and sits on them. but I suppose that's half the fun. let's see how this goes.