Shameless Selfpromotion Saturday -SSS
I was tagged by @pixiedurango and am taking advantage of this to plug my Goldana fic!
Goldanna on AO3
Practical. Goldanna was practical. And fair. That's what they said about her ‘round the market when they thought she wasn't in earshot, but they’d also have more to say and little else of it was kind, because that sort of talk only ever started out with a bit of sugar to make the salt sting sharper. She was fair, but she was a shrew and a harridan and if you got on her wrong side she’d shave your whiskers with an axe blade. Goldanna knew what they said, and though it bothered her, she couldn’t say it wasn’t true. To people outside her house, or those who passed through her door who were anything less than family, she gave very little of her time and patience. She simply had too little to spare. Five children needed the best of her, and when there was any surplus of energy she poured it into them like honey on porridge. Then she could reap the rewards of their affection, which in turn was enough to fuel her for one more day of keeping them fed and safe in Denerim. The evenings, when work was mostly done and exhaustion was settling into their bones, were Goldanna’s favourite time. She would shove pillows into the corner of the large mattress they all shared in the backroom and settle in while her children nestled in around her. Even Rue, who at fifteen years was almost a woman herself, would tuck in beside her mother and rest her head on her shoulder. If she’d done one thing right with her children (and sometimes it seemed she’d done so little right) it was that at the end of each day they found comfort in each other’s company. That night the youngest, Orchid, snuggled into her mother’s chest. She found a lock of hair that had strayed from Goldanna’s bun and wound it around one finger. “Can we have a story, Ma? Just one?”
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