2024-07-18 - [6.5] Animal Husbandry

Someone clearly has things under control – Valyth? Had this been Igith’s frustration with the bronze, not just the act of ordering but the restriction on her person? – so Courth does not understand why Gwillanth feels the need to be so loudly guilty about it.

’They have done the maths, and your intake will not affect it, he seethes. The little body in the shell does not even need food yet (and he knows, he has heard people talking about it and filed that information in with the other facts he’s gleaned about this body he can’t see and barely feels) but Gwillanth’s worry projects a hunger he cannot escape. She eats with such a need and specificity it interrupts his waking moments not for something sensible like information, but for a petty physical need.

’Talk to those who tend the stock! Stop worrying and doing nothing!’ But Gwillanth does this about many things, and the bawling of one egg she never heard isn’t going to change that.

Honestly. She was going to give them all a complex...