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Within Raven Rock 1/?
Date: 2013-08-20 07:02 pm (UTC)Delas' first child was stillborn, premature, and delivered only after three days of great pain. The body had been a powdery shade of lilac instead of dark grey, and through the transparent skin ran millions of twisting veins - like stripes on a delicate flower. Delas and her husband Mathyon spent many hours gazing down at their dead child, softly grazing its body with their fingertips.
Forty years later, Farei arrived screaming hungrily and loudly, and her parents were overcome with joy. Their second child and first daughter was born healthy, whole, and enthusiastic, with her only flaw being a reported weakness in her right eye. The healer washed and wrapped Farei in her t'lonya, her birthing swaddle, and handed her to her mother's waiting arms.
Delas and Mathyon smiled down at the newest addition to their family, tears in their eyes. Farei's ears, too big for her face, twitched in her sleep. Delas traced the visible red vein on her daughter's eyelid.
"I'm sorry, my love," she whispered. "Your mother's body is too weak to give you perfect health."
Tiny Farei slept on, unaware of her mother's apology. Mathyon wrapped his arm around Delas and pulled her closer.
"You mustn't apologize. It's not your fault."
Delas sighed. "I was so frightened, my love. For months I didn't dare think of what might happen when the time came. Our child could be born dead, or -" she cut herself off as a lump rose in her throat. "I'm so glad everything turned out alright, but ... things could be better."
To Delas, the throbbing vein on her daughter's eye was proof of Delas' inferior health, and how she willingly passed it on to her children. Her daughter will likely grow up with poor physique and a weak immune system, like her mother.
She looked at her husband, so strong, so perfect in his own right. She'd hoped that any children they had would instead take after their father. They would be strong, hardy, and would live through life relatively without pain. It seems that the gods had different ideas.
As if reading her mind, Mathyon smiled and placed his hand around Farei's wrinkled face. It was nearly swallowed by it, so small was her head. Mathyon grazed her eyelid with his thumb and gently pried it open a crack. A sliver of rich magenta shone through before he let his daughter alone to rest. Farei slept on without a stir, tiny snores lifting her miniature chest up and down.
Delas knew that shade of magenta; it was a brighter, untainted version of her own. When Delas was young, her eyes were that shining shade of purple. As the ash crept into her eyes over the years, the color faded and darkened. But the color was still visible enough that when she and Mathyon first met many years ago, her eyes were the first thing he pledged his affection towards.
Having purple eyes were seen as a sign of beauty amongst the Dunmer. They made one seem slightly more feminine, slightly more regal. Both men and women valued purple eyes with admiration. A man with purple eyes gave an impression of grace and charisma. On a woman, it would be a symbol of intelligence and sophistication.
Within Raven Rock 2/?
Date: 2013-08-20 07:11 pm (UTC)Delas was silent, her hand exploring the baby-warm head of Farei, one finger traveling down to rest on a set of tiny, perfect lips. As the night went by and the three spent the first few hours together as a family, Delas sent a thousand wishes to the ancestors that they would protect Farei.
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"I told you not to play outside without your pants tucked into your boots! Look at you, you've carried a bucketworth's of ash into the house!" Delas scolded as she took a broom and dustpan. "Go change your shoes, wash your hands, then come help me clean your mess up."
Seven-year-old Farei whined, but went to do as she was told, stomping her feet in frustration. As the only child in Raven Rock, Farei usually went far from the house to play. Thanks to the ash-ridden air, it was difficult to gauge time and she often spent more hours playing than she would estimate. Today, she realized too late that it was nearly dinnertime and rushed back home without rearranging her clothes from wading at the docks.
The adults of the small settlement of Raven Rock all took a role in the raising of Farei. Ever since Red Mountain, Dunmer children were rare and far-in-between, so any child born was a sign of prosperity and hope. Farei was loved by almost everyone in Raven Rock. Passerby greeted her by name as she ran through the town. If she was lucky, one of the merchants in the town square would gift her with a small treat. Milore was especially guilty of this, showering Farei with small samples of sweet bread or a candied mint. Her husband Garyn was a little more apathetic, but would still let Farei dig in his crates of ash yams to find those uniquely shaped.
"It's too bad she's got to make do with being the only child in a town like this, hmm?" Fethis Alor once voiced to her father Mathyon as he traded for new cooking pots. Farei had accompanied him and was examining an exotic Cyrodilic blade that Fethis had told her was a 'potato-peeler.'
"I suppose so. She seems content to play on her own, but a play-mate or two wouldn't hurt."
"I remember raising Dreyla in Tear," Fethis said as he counted change, "and she was the youngest amongst a small group of children. They would spent day after day playing with each other. You never saw a group of closer friends. They eventually went to schooling, leaving little Dreyla alone; she was yet too young to start an apprenticeship. It was very hard on her, and when she eventually reached fourteen, all her friends had moved on." He handed Mathyon his new pots and reached under a table to grasp at something. "She never really got over being left alone like that, having grown accustomed to peers her age. I suppose Farei can't miss what she doesn't know, huh?"
Mathyon shrugged, tucking his merchandise under his arm. "As long as she's happy."
"Indeed." Fethis stood up and smiled at Farei, who gazed at the man with child-like fondness. "As long as you're happy, we're all happy, sweet thing," and he handed her a small bag containing long strips of Nordic taffy.
"Oh, Fethis, you needn't -"
"Nonsense! No one in this bitter town would've wanted the thing anyway."
"I suppose this would be a benefit of being the only child in a town;" Mathyon smiled, one hand on Farei's shoulder, "she'd get spoiled sweet like this."
After a chorus of "say thank you"'s and high-pitched "thank you"'s, Fethis watched as Farei and Mathyon left the town square to find their mother at the mines. Dreyla approached and smiled at her father.
"I haven't seen you smile this much for a long time, father."
Fethis turned to Dreyla and his mind wandered to when Dreyla was yet a toddling Dunmer girl with a short blue tunic, overlarge ears, and hair fashioned into tiny buns at the side of the head. It was happier times - when they were a complete family with a mother. But now, there was a gaping hole where his wife once had been.
Within Raven Rock 3/?
Date: 2013-08-20 07:16 pm (UTC)"She reminds me of you." Fethis said softly and turned away. Dreyla sighed and bent down to rearrange the imported rugs, her gaze still turned on her grieving father.
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Many hours later, Farei scrubbed unhappily at her hands with a bar of sload soap. The ash dissolved into swirls of muddy grey in the washbasin. She dumped the water outside, wiped her hands dry on her tunic, and tottered back into the kitchen where her mother was busy sweeping the ash from the clay floor.
"There you are. Hold this dustpan as I get the ash."
Farei scowled and grasped the handle as she watched her mother sweep under the drawers. Farei thought it was distinctively unfair; the ash she'd trailed into the house had already been swept up, and now her mother was simply gathering the extra ash that's been there for days already.
After a few boring minutes, they were finally finished cleaning and now dinner could be served. Mathyon returned from his outing at the Retching Netch and greeted the ladies as they set the table with clay bowls. Delas retrieved a pot of boiled dumplings and strained them into a large serving plate. Mathyon was just about to ask Farei to help get the baked chicken when he saw her hands, dirty with ash.
"How'd you get so dirty? Did you go outside while your mother was cooking?"
"We cleaned the kitchen when she got back," Delas explained from the stove.
"Then go wash your hands," Mathyon commanded Farei, who groaned and lumbered away. She swung her arms repeatedly downwards and her fingers clicked together. As she snapped her fingers, a spark ignited and was extinguished rapidly - a child's Destruction magic trick that she no doubt picked up from watching the Redoran guards near the Bulwark. "Don't do that in the house," Mathyon called at her back before she could accidentally set anything on fire.
During dinner, Farei told her parents about the group of netches she saw floating near the beach. She assured them that yes, she did not get close, they were probably a hundred feet away, and she didn't try to run up to them like she did one time.
"And the little netch was muhiru , so bright, like what's it glowing when the sky is clear and you can ahlehong the stars, you said netches only glow when they're getting married," Farei chattered, broken Dunmeri scattering her speech.
"The baby netch was probably trying to find his mother," Mathyon explained.
" Oam daese? "
"Why aren't you eating your dinner?" Her mother interrupted, a stern gaze locked onto Farei.
Farei's face suddenly twisted into a guilty pout and lowered her gaze to the floor. Mathyon immediately searched her pockets and found an empty bag of what he knew once contained taffy.
"Spoiled your appetite, did you?"
Farei caught a glimpse of her mother's disappointed expression and twisted her fingers in her lap.
"Your mother spent hours making your meal, you know," Mathyon scolded, putting the bag into his own pocket. "And she was already tired from working in the mines."
Re: Within Raven Rock 3/?
Date: 2013-10-20 05:35 pm (UTC)