Cooking with Wild Game: Volume 25 [Parts 1 to 4] by EDA

Author:EDA
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 2: Amusehorn’s Breath

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On the morning of the fifth day of the brown month, two days after the start of the rainy season, I was sleeping away all warm and cozy under my newly purchased blanket.

It had always felt like the temperature fell to around fifteen degrees celsius at night—though that was of course just based on what my senses were able to tell me—however now it seemed to be going down to seven or eight degrees, or thereabouts. Whatever the specific numbers actually were, it was undoubtedly chilly enough that it would be really tough to have to spend the night without bedding.

The sheets and blankets you could get ahold of in the post town were only about as thick as a terry-cloth blanket at best, but we had bought a pretty decent number of them so that we could stack them up to give us both cushioning and protection against the cold. Even at the forest’s edge, that was the typical method for making it through the cold nights of the rainy season, at least for clans that weren’t especially impoverished.

If I consulted with a resident of the castle town like Yang, I would probably be able to purchase the sort of soft down quilts they used there. I had learned that they had that kind of thing in the castle town back when I’d been abducted and taken to the Turan manor. However, up through last year, Ai Fa had gone without any bedding at all, simply pulling a fur cloak over herself when going to sleep, so even though we did have the funds to afford such quilts now, spending that much on them would be a very unfitting act for a person of the forest’s edge. Besides, we had been sleeping in a huddle atop a fur rug up until the last few days. Hanging curtains over the windows, layering up sheets to sleep on top of, and then pulling a blanket over myself was already enough to satisfy me.

Additionally, neither the people who lived at the forest’s edge nor the post town seemed to use pillows, so I had wrapped up an extra sheet I had bought and laid it under my head. At first Ai Fa had looked at me with a dubious gaze when I had done that, but in the end she’d said, “This isn’t half bad,” and had done the same.

Bottom line, we had successfully ensured that we would be able to sleep soundly even during the rainy season. I had already been sleeping deeply enough that I rarely dreamed, but I seemed to be sleeping even deeper since we started using the bedding.

However, that deeper sleep had led to a bit of a shift in my internal cycles. On this particular day, I failed to wake up at the usual time, leading Ai Fa to mercilessly snatch away my blanket.

“Do you intend to keep sleeping forever, Asuta? Dawn has long since broken.”

“Gah, cold!” I said, sitting up atop the bedding as my body trembled.

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