Egris and the Silence of the Storm by Robbie Ballew & Stephen Landry

Author:Robbie Ballew & Stephen Landry [Ballew, Robbie & Landry, Stephen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Guiding Thread
Published: 2019-08-26T22:00:00+00:00

Over the next several weeks, the young fauns who had come to retrieve my rations made regular visits to help me tend the land.

“We made sure your gift was distributed evenly,” a young one named Nix told me. “None of it was thrown into the fire.”

“Thank you,” I said.

We used tar to seal up the cracks in an old hay cart I found in the barn, and used it to haul water from the river. It wasn’t much, but at least it kept the crops from dying out completely.

As the time for the harvest grew near, my storehouses were almost completely depleted. I returned to the village once more, determined to convince the village leaders to ask the elves for aid.

The streets were nearly empty. It seemed that most of the fauns were in their homes, fasting. Waiting for guidance from the spirits.

I asked a young apprentice of Brau-Na’s to inform him of my arrival, but he told me he was currently speaking with Arctis and Ethyos, who had just returned from their journey. Several moments later, they all emerged from the tent.

“Arctis, cousin, greetings!” I said as I approached him with a hug. “And Ethyos, how was your journey?”

“Not good, I’m afraid,” Arctis said. “The other villages are suffering just as much as we are, some worse.”

“Is there nothing more we can do?” I asked. “Surely the elves have enough to spare.”

"The spirits are testing us," Brau-Na interjected.

"The spirits have abandoned us!" I shouted back.

"We must continue with prayer and fasting," he argued.

"Can you call it fasting when you have no food to give up? You will pray us all to death!" I stormed out. I had nothing else to say.

Nix and a few of the other faun that overheard us come up to me. They told me they had secretly been sending scouts to observe the elves. They had both food and water coming into their villages. Caravans full of supplies sent from their capitol city. Manse village, the closest to us, even had a small garden outside the Mayor's mansion.

"Surely they could spare some scraps for their neighbors," said one of the younger fauns. I agreed. What harm could come from asking?

They asked me to lead them. What could I do? I was nothing more than a simple farmer. I knew how to grow crops, how to carve wood. I knew how to sow a field and reap a harvest. Five of them stepped forward, ready to follow me to Manse Village. There was no point in arguing. My wife would say the deep magic was leading me down this path from the very beginning. I had always been someone the other faun looked up to.

We endeavored to embark the next morning, and each returned to his own home for the night to prepare. We all gathered at my house and Lavendra prepared as harty a breakfast as we could afford to spare. By mid-morning we were on our way.

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