Crysaria Letters - 3. Woes of the road
29th day of Thrul, year 14 Ianus
I’m not in the mood of writing right now. It’s been three weeks of having to cope with idiot after idiot. I know the gaeriti main attractive ain’t their hospitality, but in the first week of travel alone I had already been fed up with the unwelcomeness to strangers. One herder spit on me before I even said hello! I still doubt if I shouldn’t have sterilized his stupid cows for that, even if they weren’t the ones at fault. But no, Ria must be a good girl, bleh.
I need to find some good tea. In 300 miles of trip I had to rely on my supply. Ok, some bit less of 300 miles, but still. I can’t believe that even in small towns they didn’t even had some local herb to drink! I can understand that they make it roughly, just boiling a leaf; but nothing to make tea of? The things one must see just because they need proof of being right...
And of course, there’s that. I have only 3 days ago been able to find somewhere to do something at all. Which ain’t much, since all I got was helping a bitter widow to make a shed for her chickens. Yeah, not much to learn from that, I know. Soon I’ll depart to a larger town called “Swantle” or something like that, not too of southwest of here. I’ll try to get some odd job there, maybe helping building houses or something. Maybe making walls or furniture could enlighten me on the mysteries of treating with dead bodies or tombs?
Now that I think about it, it may be too hard. I mean, how many builders would take a pretty woman as an apprentice? Not even talk about blacksmiths letting me near their forges... I’m starting to think this would have been a lot easier if it were someone like you to test it. Well, I don’t mean you, it would still be needed that the person could establish a normal conversation for him to get some job or even INSIGHT. But you know what I mean, anyway.
Bleh, I better cut the ranting and get some rest, tomorrow I’ll go find something else to do and set up to go as soon as possible. As old teach used to say, getting things done is better than getting done with things. Then again, he also said “Riandra, get your butt off my desk and study properly” a lot, so I dunno how much should I quote him. And the desk WAS comfier than his chairs, so anyway...
I’ll write you again some time soon
