Relonor's Journal by River Gheuens

Author:River Gheuens [Gheuens, River]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Self Published
Published: 2019-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Entry 9

4 Months Before

West of Groenplaats

I awoke on the ground with my head in Vadoma’s lap. She had propped herself against the saddles and supplies, which she had stacked up. We were not far from the small camp fire, which she had made to keep the cold of the early spring night from invading our camp to make us cold. I imagined little snow flakes holding spears marching into our camp, before demanding our surrender to the Lord of Coldness.

I chuckled at my thought as my mind took an inventory of our situation. Some guard I was for being hit low by my own stupidity. I was still very tired. I lifted my head to take in my surroundings. Vadoma had taken my weapons belt off of me and stretched it out in front of me within reach of my hands. A few paces from the camp fire, the quivers were stood up with the bows resting against them, which made using them, if there was need, a speedy process.

Behind us, I could hear the horses as they went about doing horse things, while they were tethered to the ground to prevent them from running off by a few metal spikes, which were driven through a ring of metal.

Vadoma stirred awake while she looked down at me. “Morrow, sleepy dead person.”

I quipped, “Can you be normal for once and just say good morrow, wench?”

Vadoma scrunched up her forehead in thought. After a few moments, she quipped back, “No. My weirdness for you does not allow me to be normal. You can either take me as I am or not.”

The memory of the pain on her face, from last night, came to my mind, which changed my line of thinking, as I gave voice to the thought, “Hey, are you okay?”

“Besides the cramp in my neck from sleeping this way? Da. Why?” Her response was instant.

My mind examined the reaction she had from the previous night, with the words around my statement about my eye. Slowly, like I was afraid to scare a wild animal off, I voiced my concern. “Well, before I like went all dead and tried to eat your brain, what was wrong? When I made the joke about my eye?”

Vadoma looked into my face for a moment, as some major choice was being played out in her head. I gave no rush to her decision as I showed my wench the support she deserved from a friend.

Vadoma let out a huge sigh. “If I tell you, you will hate me. I do not want to ruin our friendship over something I had to make a quick decision on.” She paused, which I let the pause continue uninterrupted by my voice.

After a few moments of her staring at me, she sighed. “I guess you have the right to know.” Vadoma looked off towards the lake in the distance, to where the fog rolled off of the lake, as it masked the lake in a white mist. Her jaw muscle flexed, which gave her face a hard edge.

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