A tale of two houses - Tales of Akkadia

Posted on 29 Oct 2017 @ 8:18pm by Commander Allyndra illm Warraquim

418 words; about a 2 minute read

Computer open log "Tales of Akkadia"

[Log Open]

"There was time when N'alui came up from the sea to the land. She took on the form of an old lady and went into a village. She wandered for a bit and then decided to go to a house. It was a big house and the gardens there lush and bursting with blood flowers, berries, and all manner of fruits.

She knocked on the door and asked to be let in saying she was hungry. The family did but when she sat at the table and asked for blood flower, the hostess gave only a little saying that they had little to spare. The same occurred when she asked for fruit and berries being told that much had not ripened and could not be spared.

She thanked the family and went on her way. The next day she did the same but this time the house was further inland and much humbler. The garden was small and not as lush. Again the family greeted her and the lady put her in the head of the table. She was served blood flower juice and in a large cup while the family took only a little for themselves. The same with the berries and fruit, they gave her the largest share while taking only a bit between themselves.

N'auli thanked them and then went back down to the sea. She raised her arms and a great terrible wave formed and raced toward the shore. It crashed over the land damaging the great house that had treated her badly but the wave split upon a rock and did not touch the poorer house. As the water retreated, fish were left in the poorer houses garden.

It took a year for the first house to regrow its garden and it was but a shadow of its former self. The later though in the poorer house bloomed and grew as the soil seemed to give the plants there so much more.

The first house realized that they had made a mistake and on the anniversary of the visit took plates down to the sea and placed them on the shore of a fair portion of their edibles. The poorer house learned of this and invited them to share what they had as well.

N'alui watched all this from her waves and from then on, no wave ever found that shore in such fury nor did any garden fail or falter.

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