The trouble with Fey Relations

Seeing that it won't be possible to to simply carry everything back to town Aizashi looks around for some material to craft a makeshift travois for transporting the animals while Gorman kills the deer and brings it back here.

As Gorman make preparations Gorman scouts the trail of the deer from where he last spotted it. The trail is soon found and the travouis competed with a couple small trees and rope. The wolf is placed atop it and you begin the treck to hunt down the wounded deer. Fortuantly it is soon located and Gorman is able to cleanly finish it off.


Gorman then spends time, with Aizashi's help, to skin, butcher, and clean the two annimals. Leaving what you can not use of sell for the wild to reclaim you put the rest onto the travouis and make your way back to the village. By time th village center is in sight is is nearing noon.

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There are a few squeals from the first couple of kids but with the arrival of Gorman and more kids they calm down. But then the kids get in on it and start getting in on the act telling Aizashi to pretend to be stuffed again for new batches of kids, half of whom similarly squeal but the laughter and giggling of their friends quickly reassure them.
After the entire batch of children, which ranges from 10 down to 4 years of age, has met the both of you the screens are pulled back a bit to allow them to all take a seat on the floor as you explain about your backgrounds and tell tales of your lives. Gorman himself elicits less interest as a human hunter is a common thing to them but his tales of his homeland and the places he has seen gets almost as much interest as Aizashi'z stories of his "exciting life in the monetary learning to fight". Aizashis is put off a bit by the childrens discounting his martial prowess as they attribute much of his martial might to his more animalistic nature.

After an hour of this the priest excuses you and tells the children that they still must finish their lessons. You sit for a few minutes at the back listening to the priest recount legends and stories, each used as a teaching tool. Some must be common as the older children answer quicker pointing out the lesson behind stories that are not always clear. The first story deals with a foolish farmer who loved the earth and so discounted the heavens only to suffer through a drought while his neighbors had prepared and adapted as the seasons progressed by watching the sky and remembering it cycles. The next deals with the wicked nature of fay and how they can not be trusted and point out how children are their favorite prey that they will lure to the woods to kidnap and eat.

The class takes several hours while the priest covers a wide variety of activities, typically in doing or story format with some time silent or back in the garden with older children helping younger children as they study plants and their uses.