Occupation by Devon C Ford & Nathan Hystad

Author:Devon C Ford & Nathan Hystad [Ford, Devon C & Hystad, Nathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2020-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

Lina was accustomed to eating three or four times a day at set intervals. She rose and had breakfast, she ate a meal around the middle of the day, another when the sun set surrounded by family and friends, then a small meal before bed.

The rabbit, meager as it was, would never fill both of them up, but they planned to add some applesauce to it. He carried it up the hill by the hind legs, its long ears flopping with each step he took. He dropped the carcass on a wooden table and drew a knife, but she stopped him.

“May I?” she asked, holding out a hand for the blade. Curious, he handed it to her and stepped aside to watch. She muttered some words under her breath, which he almost heard but didn’t understand. She placed her hand on her chest as she spoke, then on the chest of the dead rabbit, then again to her chest until she stopped murmuring and opened her eyes.

He stoked the fire, bringing up the flames with more dried wood to cook the little beast on a spit he was hastily fashioning. She skinned and cleaned the rabbit and wiped her bloody hands on a rag before rummaging in her bag for the apples, which she started to chop into chunks, adding a couple of green leaves to the pot. Cole added the meat to a spit, the meat crackling over the flames, and soon the smell of roasting rabbit filled the room.

“Put it straight in the pot,” she said gently, unsure if she was overstepping or if either of them was planning on taking charge of the meal overall. He said nothing, simply took the meat off the spit, and handed it to her, as unsure as she’d been. She chopped it up into smaller portions, leaving the bones untouched. Cole removed the neck, adding the pelt and the head to the bowl with the guts before taking it outside and disappearing. Lina craned her neck around the open door to see him approaching the storeroom and sliding the bowl far inside without stepping foot in there.

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