Trustful: Day 6

Word Count: 36,017

Summary of Events:

Rosemarie was having supper with Hulda, but was rather full from having just had supper with Wolfgang, which she tried to hide, but Hulda got impatient with her slow eating and ended up making her sick. Wolfgang and Rosemarie had another lengthy talk, but then Wolfgang got somewhat careless with what he said to Rosemarie and got quite angry at himself, which led to him lashing out at Rosemarie, prompting her to flee. Rosemarie was sitting in her room, somewhat afraid to go visit Wolfgang again when Hulda came in claiming that Rosemarie hadn't done all of her chores . . .

Excerpt of the Day: 

""I also told you to sweep the floor," Hulda said.

"No you didn't," Rosemarie replied. "I swept the floor two days ago, and I'm only to sweep the floor every seventh day, you said so yourself."

"You did not sweep the floor two days ago," Hulda said.

"I did!" Rosemarie insisted.

"You did not and you will sweep it now!" Hulda bellowed.

"No!" Rosemarie shouted. "I will not do it!"

A flash of bright light suddenly filled the room and Rosemarie found herself in the dining hall with the broom in her hands.

She went to drop the broom and flee to one of the open doors, but her hands wouldn't both release the broom, no matter how hard she tried.

Forced to keep the broom in her hands, Rosemarie ran toward one set of doors, which suddenly closed and barred. When she turned around to head for the other set she found that it, too, was already closed and barred.

"No!" Rosemarie screamed. "You cannot do this to me! I am not lying to you! I swept the floor two days ago!"

She then shrieked in fright when she saw that her hands were suddenly turning wooden like the broom.

Swinging the broom wildly, Rosemarie broke it against the table and felt relief come over her when her hands returned to their fleshly appearance. She then seized a chair and ran for the doors.

It took considerable effort to raise the chair into the air and break it across the doors, but she was able to break the bar and get out of the room. She then fled up to her room, only to find Hulda was still there and seemed to be fairly vibrating with fury at Rosemarie's appearance.

Suddenly Rosemarie's arms were pulled against her body so that she couldn't move them away. Rosemarie screamed and threw herself at Hulda, who fell to the floor and hit her head hard.

Rosemarie felt her arms become free again and fled, fearful that she might just have gone and killed Hulda. She went down all the stairs, took the boat across the water to her mooring tree, and fled to Herr Edler's camp.

She found Herr Edler wasn't there, which left her on one hand frightened, and on the other relieved. His horses were there, both eating at what grass they could find underneath the snow, completely calm and nonchalant.

Going over to the tree under which Herr Edler made his bed, Rosemarie sat down, her legs gathered against herself, and set her chin on her knees. Her heart was still pounding and her arms felt like they weren't that terribly reliable.

The fact that she'd been completely powerless to let go of the broom, and then her hands becoming wooden, and her arms then becoming fixed to her sides; it all left her feeling rather ill and frightened. Hulda indeed had powers she lacked, and Hulda seemed willing to use them for hurt if necessary."

Pronunciation:

Herr: hehr'