Year 1587 Part 1:
TW/CW: Death, Death Mention
The beginning of the year started out well when Margery delivered her son Cuthbert safely though the next few months of the year were brutal on the entire family. Things started to look up when the Laurent family head learned where Ruth had been married off to though which was quickly shared through Talia’s tome.
Wilmot was widowed as Faiz succumbed to old age, then the famine took it’s toll on Agnes and Blanche leaving Ambrose and Adrian as the last of their surviving siblings. Then Judith’s middle child died of hunger and Clemence was widowed when her husband Dimitri died. All this occurred in the span of a few short weeks following the birth of Cuthbert.
Cecily delivered a healthy daughter she named Matilda which was welcome news. Benedict celebrated his sixth birthday to the delight of his mother though with all the bad news coming in he really just wanted to rest until it stopped.
Then Margery died from the famine. Agnes could hardly enjoy her birthday with so much death in the community.
John Laurent II arrived at the Pancake residence to find that he was too late. His sister had sadly passed in childbirth years ago but only recently had a strange woman carrying an odd book come to visit asking about Ruth. When she learned about her fate, every member in the house at the time had mysteriously died. Though more strange was that Ruth’s sons were never found.
Adrian celebrated his fifty-third birthday mostly alone, the year was long and he found it hard to think of celebrating milestones when his sister had just passed a few months back. The news of Ruth’s death hurt him, he was so tired of outliving people so much younger than himself. He wondered if his Aunt Larissa was alright now that she was almost certainly with her great-grandsons. She still wasn’t responding to anyone in the tome but it was clear she was keeping up to date.