Those two going to the woods are mother and daughter. The mother goes singing, while the daughter sighs. “Why dost thou sigh so, my fair daughter?” “I have much ire in me, I sense my demise. I am woman by day, and by night a white doe, The hunt is after me, dark brings only […]
Sparks were flying at the anvil. The hammer, like an iron meteorite, crashed relentlessly over the incandescent landscape of the gestating pauldron below. Blow after blow, the metal was bending, twisting, warping. She was alone, standing by the forge outside of the temporary hide hut they made for themselves, close to her sister’s sturdier wooden […]