Monday, September 29, 2014

Corruption Rent: Day 14

Word Total: 90,001

Year to Date: 810,742

Summary of Events:
Chapter 29:
Agathe woke up and found it was raining, so she woke Étienne who went out and plotted an escape route out of Le Suid camp, he then put on his armour, woke the Wouest-Suides, and they all went and got their weapons. The Wouest-Suides then left and Étienne went and woke the women and they started on their way.
Chapter 30:
Étienne, Agathe, Caroline, Marie, and Génevieve journeyed onward, stopping to eat a deer Étienne had killed earlier in an abandoned huntsman's cave, then they came upon a town and, being as Étienne was pretty sure they were in enemy territory they couldn't trust the townspeople and found a way around which led them right into a berry patch and they found another huntsman's cave to camp in for the night.

Excerpt of the Day:
""What are we doing here?" Agathe asked
"We're eating," Chevalier de Versant replied. "We've yet to eat all day and we need energy for our walking."
"But this place must belong to someone else," Agathe said, indicating the wood.
"It's an old huntsman's cave," Chevalier de Versant replied. "It hasn't been used in ages, I'm sure it hasn't been used since the war broke out. And besides, hunting isn't usually done until autumn, and we're not quite there yet. By the time hunting season begins we'll be long gone from here and if the hunter comes to use this cave he probably won't notice the wood missing or anything."
Chevalier de Versant then gathered some of the wood and used his dagger to shave some kindling bits off one of the pieces with swift and easy strokes. Then he cut the remaining wood smaller and put the blade of the dagger against his armour, flicking it in a special way that Agathe didn't quite get a good glimpse of, causing sparks to leap off and catch quickly on the dry kindling. Chevalier de Versant then quickly added wood to the fire and soon it was large and beautifully warm.
Agathe eventually drew near to the fire to warm and dry herself, as did the other women. Chevalier de Versant took one of the pieces of meat he'd been carrying and managed to stick it onto the tip of his sword and began to roast it over the fire.
"How are we going to eat that?" Marie asked.
"With our hands," Chevalier de Versant replied.
"But surely you don't think we'd do such a thing, do you?" Marie asked.
"Whether you would do it or not is irrelevant Mademoiselle," Chevalier de Versant replied. "You will because that is all you can do. We have no utensils."
Marie regarded the chunk of roasting meat with scepticism. Agathe wasn't entirely sure how their were going to all succeed in sharing the meat off the bone, unless Chevalier de Versant was going to cut a chunk off for everyone, which would probably work. It wouldn't be clean, but it would work, and they did have the stream to wash their hands in.
But really, overall, their life was going to be somewhat dirty until they arrived wherever this refuge camp was in Le Ganéis. It wasn't really going to be preventable, as much as they might not look forward to the idea, but being as they — Agathe was pretty sure — were in enemy territory they couldn't really approach people, so they wouldn't be able to get anything, and who of them had any money to purchase anything with? At least they were free, and they were on their way to safety, that was what was important to Agathe. They were not going to suffer what they very well could've suffered at the whim of the king of Le Suid."

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