NaraMoore ⛩️👻八尺様👻⛩️ at Fedi<p><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/wss366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wss366</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TimeTravelAuthors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TimeTravelAuthors</span></a> 06/21<br><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/FanFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FanFiction</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/TearmoonEmpire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TearmoonEmpire</span></a></p><p>**** The Norns ****<br>*** Chapter 2: Rabbit Stew ***</p><p>“I wouldn’t.”</p><p>Mai jumped at the voice, and her hand halted as she reached for an inviting spray of crimson berries. </p><p>“Those are baneberries. It is not your fate to die by those.” The voice was that of a woman. A moth-gray hood shrouded her face, so one had to guess her age. Mai thought she sounded young, a foreigner.</p><p>“Yes, I knew that. I was just going to study them,” Mai said, dropping the berries she had picked.</p><p>“Come, you may eat with us,” the woman said, leaving.</p><p>“It isn’t wise or <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/safe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>safe</span></a> to go with people you don’t know.” Mai could almost hear Four-eye’s voice. “But she did stop me from eating something that would disagree with me,” she reasoned silently. “She has to be a good person. Besides, I’m hungry,” she muttered the last part so the illusionary Ludwig, AKA Four-eyes, couldn’t hear.</p><p>The woman led them through the woods to a clearing under an enormous tree. Two more women, hidden under gray hoods and cloaks, sat before a blazing fire. The warm scent of…</p><p>“Rabbit stew!” Mai exclaimed. “My favorite!”</p><p>“Who have you brought?” the woman stirring a pot asked. Her voice gave no hint of her age.</p><p>“The future of Tearmoon,” Mai’s guide said.</p><p>“Perhaps,” the third complained, in a voice that creaked with age. “She, by all rights, should be the past of Tearmoon. If you had not removed the thread of rebellion or the Serpent’s thread in the village.”</p><p>“You make much work for us,” the middle woman said, looking at Mai. Under the shadowy hood, Mai saw a mature woman’s face. “Weaving, unweaving, and weaving again. Even now, I foresee we shall have to redo the warp and weave yet again.”</p><p>Mai couldn’t tell if the woman was complaining or commenting, but she didn’t worry over it long as she watched the woman add savory herbs and bright red mushrooms with white freckles on their caps to the stew. Her mouth watered. “Rabbit stew with mushrooms!”</p><p>“You must pardon my sisters,” her guide said, dishing herself a bowl of stew from the pot’s side without mushrooms. “This is my sister, Urðr.” She gestured toward the older woman. “And this is Verðandi,” she pointed to the middle woman. “I am Skuld.”</p><p>(Part 2 of a <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Serial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Serial</span></a> in four parts. To be continued.)</p><p><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/microfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>microfiction</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMPrompts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NMPrompts</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMV366" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NMV366</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/NMTTA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NMTTA</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Anime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Anime</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Manga" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manga</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/LightNovel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LightNovel</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/Fantasy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fantasy</span></a><br><a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2%E3%83%A0%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E5%B8%9D%E5%9B%BD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ティアムーン帝国</span></a> <a href="https://sakurajima.moe/tags/JNovelClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JNovelClub</span></a></p>