by Faith Wynters Fri Aug 12, 2011 1:25 pm
Of course, today was the day I had to come into town. Today was the day I had to talk to shop owners. Today was the day I was forced into a semi-normal life-style for the sake of my home life. It wasn’t like I was there often. Of course when I was, I had to have food, and I had to have odds and ends for the house. I dreaded this day every time it came.
There would be a ball soon. Mostly they were invitation only, but this one I had somehow gotten invited to. The delight of a ball always seemed to excite me when I was a child. Of course, I owned no other clothing than this and my other outfit. The one I used on all of my under the table missions. The ones I got paid really well for. Well, I used to get paid really well for them. Then the economy went down the toilet and I was left killing beaver and bear for their hide to sell at market. Don’t even get me started on the garden. God, the rabbits, now that I thought of it, got taken, and cooked for stew. I most of the time, sold the hide, but it had been awhile since I had caught one. Maybe they now had learned to keep away from the lettuce patch! I would rather been cooking and sewing and killing all day than doing this.
The market was never hectic, which meant getting a good deal was always just around the corner, but the people. They were awful. No matter what you did. They were on your back. Get something or get out. It was as if they thought I was a witch or something. I was a mage, and no one knew about it, not a damned witch!
Of course, I lived out in the wild, but still. Of course, not all of them were like that, but I was still awkward. It was idiotic how much I was out of touch with human society, but I was.