26.Feb.12, 09:16 PM
She nods. "Perhaps it because you... had a life. I was.. drained working in the North. Men with their mistresses, women who were begging me to make sure they could conceive. My own lack of love life." she lickeed her lips. "It was always something. I am glad perhaps, I was taken. I had so little left." As the talk towards home and Falen's she smiled. "Falen's is on the Western side of Ista, so I understand, Falen's was only visited for our 'runner sales'." She looked skyward at the thought of the summer time in Falen's. "It's beautiful. Warm breeze, sunlight- thought he thunderstorms-- when it stormed it stormed." she clapped her hands together firmly indicating a thunder clap.
She swallowed when the question about her Mother's disappearance crossed her lips. "Mother was father's wife, his Weyrmate. "I was four, when the riders went south. Mother went with him. It's.. hard to explain. She just wasn't there. My aunts said she'd taken up with father because he needed her. My grand mother- my mother's mother, said she had abandoned the Hold. I was kept distracted, much of the times. It was little lies in those early days. She was a journey woman Healer so she could be 'gone' and it wasn't a big deal. But when it became clear she wasn't coming back..." she closed her eyes and breathing slowly.
The tears were falling. She could feel it. "My mother's name was Arshtat, my grand mother's name was Ohalzeta, my grandmother's name was Falram..." she intone the biological litany as if it'd been ingraved into her mind. A slow,decisive exhale. " Mother traveled a lot between Ista and Falen's." she said. "A lot. She loved father. Thouh I didn't know him, even a four year old could see she missed him. I suppose being with him made her really happy." She looked at Volfetti, her eyes shining brightly, in the light. "Sorry I didn't mean to seem to weird..."
She swallowed when the question about her Mother's disappearance crossed her lips. "Mother was father's wife, his Weyrmate. "I was four, when the riders went south. Mother went with him. It's.. hard to explain. She just wasn't there. My aunts said she'd taken up with father because he needed her. My grand mother- my mother's mother, said she had abandoned the Hold. I was kept distracted, much of the times. It was little lies in those early days. She was a journey woman Healer so she could be 'gone' and it wasn't a big deal. But when it became clear she wasn't coming back..." she closed her eyes and breathing slowly.
The tears were falling. She could feel it. "My mother's name was Arshtat, my grand mother's name was Ohalzeta, my grandmother's name was Falram..." she intone the biological litany as if it'd been ingraved into her mind. A slow,decisive exhale. " Mother traveled a lot between Ista and Falen's." she said. "A lot. She loved father. Thouh I didn't know him, even a four year old could see she missed him. I suppose being with him made her really happy." She looked at Volfetti, her eyes shining brightly, in the light. "Sorry I didn't mean to seem to weird..."