Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 23 [Parts 1 to 3] by EDA

Author:EDA
Language: eng
Format: epub

Intermission: The Castle Town’s Star Reader

Arishuna Zi Mafraluda awoke that morning hearing the solemn sound of a bell.

The bell rang three times, leaving behind trailing reverberations. That was the sign that it was now the upper third hour, three hours since sunrise. The sound of the bell was always more restrained at this hour, so as not to interfere with the sleep of noble personages.

Arishuna was currently in a manor in the castle town reserved for noble visitors, which used to be the private residence of Count Turan. The morning sunlight gently streamed in through the windows, illuminating the brick-built room, and she could feel the cool morning air coming in from outside as she lay atop her bed.

Arishuna had been granted usage of this room shortly before the start of the sun god’s revival festival. A great many nobles and merchants from other lands had been invited to this manor, and she had been moved here from her previous residence so that she could perform star readings for them. Not that it particularly mattered where she slept. It didn’t change anything about her lifestyle.

As she sat up atop the soft kimyuus-down bedding and placed her feet down on the thick carpet, a knock sounded out on her door as if it had been waiting for that very moment.

“Are you awake, Lady Arishuna?”

“Yes,” Arishuna replied, and the older maid assigned to her entered the room carrying a large basket. Inside the container was a set of Arishuna’s clothing, freshly cleaned. The maid placed the basket on a table, and then stood there as if waiting for Arishuna to say something.

“I don’t need, assistance changing. Please, be on your way.”

“Very well, Lady Arishuna.”

The old maid respectfully bowed her head and exited the room. Arishuna hadn’t asked for assistance changing even once, but the woman was unable to leave the room until given permission. That was the maids’ duty.

She had been living like this, as a sort of quasi-noble, for over a year now. Though Arishuna didn’t consider that to be a negative, she also didn’t feel especially blessed. But this was the only life available to her, so all she could do was accept it and entrust herself to the whims of fate.

While she was reflecting on her circumstances once again, Arishuna got up and began changing. After removing her silky night clothes and waist cloth, she stood for a moment just as she was when she had been born, then put on the clothing that had been prepared for her—a long robe made out of silk from Sym and a new waist cloth.

Then she moved further into the room and began putting on various accessories stored in a jewelry box one by one. They included a set of ten thin silver wrist rings that together made a sort of bracelet, a necklace with the crest of Sym on it, and rings, earrings, and ankle bracelets adorned with stones of all sorts of colors. Then she braided her long black hair together beside her neck, threading countless prayer strings through it.

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