RP post: In Gotland with Kate Barlow

[ostro_goth]

The door opens as if out of a hillside; and below the hill, a farm nestles.

In it centre, there's a large long-house built from field-stones and large beams, thatched in reed and low-eaved; around it, there are outbuildings: baking oven, smithy, chicken coop, storage and the like. Cows, sheep and goats are grazing on the hills around; there are chickens and geese in the yard, and horses in a meadow.

Children are playing hide-and-seek among the buildings, and two tall burly men, one older and one younger, are hard at work at the smithy, mending sickles and scythes.

It is the early evening.

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[ikissdhimbck]

"That's a good choice. Tell y'what — "

She bends closer to the child's ear, whispering conspiratorially.

"If there are apples for dessert, y'can have an extra portion of mine. But shhh, don't let the king find out, or else he might be jealous."

[ostro_goth]

"Leria too!" Myrtia says, because she shares everything with her twin sister, and the other way around.

[ikissdhimbck]

"Leria too."

Kate's an equal opportunity spoiler.

[ostro_goth]

Then, Adalgoth and another man who is introduced as Wachis bring the trestle tables, children bring chairs and stools and dishes and cup, and the women serve dinner.

And then, there is a dinner feast that indeed does end with apples. And what Hilde had brought to light, is not alluded to again.-