Thursday, March 05, 2015

Hopeless Night: Day 4

Word Count: 24,007

Summary of Events:
Chapter 7:
Magnus and Georg went hunting together, mostly finding only small game, which made the excursion rather frustrating, but finally Magnus shot a deer and the headed homeward, however they were confronted by a lawman before they could get there.
Chapter 8:
Emma's mother was back working in the kitchen and had brought Josepha with her to learn more about cooking — but it wasn't going so well. Georg returned home and recounted the incidents of the day to his parents.

Excerpt of the Day:
"Georg went to the road and rode toward Rohrbauerheim.
"But aren't we going to take the game home?" Magnus asked.
"Grandfather has more storage space, not to mention he has more than one smoking hut," Georg replied. "With the amount of game we've shot today we'll need to make use of some of his things."
When they arrived Magnus dismounted from Schnellsonne and led Windläufer over to the building where Tiedemann handled all of his meat. Manservants came out to help Magnus remove the game.
Magnus counted which had Georg's arrows, and which had his own, and found that he had — counting the deer — only three more pieces of game than Georg. Obviously once they'd settled down Georg's aim and accuracy had improved. Either that or Georg had been doing better than Magnus and even Georg himself had been thinking.
"Oh would you look at this," Georg said — sounding as if he meant to be irritable.
Magnus looked up at Georg, still astride Schnellsonne, looking at the deer still across Windläufer's back.
"The deer is mine," Georg said. "You missed"
"What!?" Magnus exclaimed.
He took up one of his arrows and held it alongside the arrow in the deer. Indeed. It was Georg's arrow that was in the deer. Magnus couldn't believe it. But then where was his arrow? Magnus hadn't even looked where the astray arrow had gone.
"But I shot the deer," Magnus said. "I'm sure of it. Surely our arrows couldn't have been mixed up."
"Oh I don't think so," Georg said. "The deer is mine." He smiled proudly.
Magnus shook his head, utterly bemused. He couldn't believe it. It made no sense, he was positive he'd hit the deer.
The manservants brought the deer down and took out the arrow; heading off with the game without a word.
"Come, let's go home, we'll worry about it tomorrow," Georg said.
Magnus took Windläufer to the stables and untacked him; releasing him out into his pasture. He then climbed on behind Georg again and tried to puzzle through it. It really didn't make any sense whatsoever, but that appeared to be the way it was.
They were getting close to Graßbenestädt when a man ran out and stopped them, he looked to be a rich man who was incredibly upset. Magnus hoped that he would leave them alone so they could go on. Another man was standing behind the upset man watching.
"Do you recognize this arrow?" the upset man asked, holding it up.
Magnus looked at it and he felt his heartbeat accelerate as he started to go cold. This couldn't be good.
"It is mine," Magnus replied.
The man turned a gaze brimming with vehement rage at Magnus, the lawman behind him strode forward and indicated for Magnus to dismount, which Magnus did.
"What is your name?" the lawman asked.
"Magnus Kenner sir," Magnus replied.
"Well, Herr Kenner," the lawman said. "As a soldier of the law of Kaingsvoldisch Zeigreisch, I place you under arrest for murder.""

Rorhbauerheim: roarbower-hyemh
Schnellsonne: shnell-sohnh
Windläufer: windlau-fur
Tiedemann: tiedhman

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