Had he gone the complete opposite way this time? That would be like him. Had he accidentally started a major fire by trying to make breakfast as he had the morning after their tryst? It was absolutely wretched, she remembered - undercooked to the point of later diarrhea. To her horror, the town was ablaze, fire consuming every rooftop she could see.

The newfangled printing press that broke the first time he tried to use it and proved unrepairable. The dice-making venture that no one was interested in. The breadbaking business that failed to rise. One fine, sunny, cloudless spring morning, Metyssa walked to the village, musing on Dunius's failed schemes. Other than believing she'd soon be changing farms - to the funny one in the capital city. No one thought that steak had any stake or say in how the blonde girl would turn out, though. She also often spoke of a dream where a rare sirloin appeared and prophesized her fate. Legend has it that when she was born, all the men in the village became sick. The odd one out in the connective tissue of our heroes and the oddest person in the entire village. Where he differed - his best friend died at a tragically young age of a winter fever, leaving behind a daughter Dunius felt quite protective of. Like many virile young men, he lived for interludes of the physical kind. One nightly romantic encounter was with Dunius, who often said he was as unlucky as Metyssa was lucky, though the truth was, his own laziness had a lot to do with his misfortunes. She considered herself very fortunate to have been born in such beautiful natural surroundings and she had a reputation around the village of being a girl who kissed back if you kissed her - especially after a bottle of whisky. Metyssa was a River child, born and raised to water.

Their names were Metyssa Slendergoth, Dunius Wiskyton, and Milillia Shovelstokk. Now, the tale begins with three young farmhands who had not yet settled down in life, but dreamt of going out into the larger world and seeking their fortune. When everyone still believed in magic and all things seemed possible.īest you get a drink and some snacks before starting. When the world was yet new and its fate still hung in the balance. Gather round, and I shall tell you the story of how things once were.

Whispered secrets wildermyth