If you were born during the dragon
star - you were blessed or cursed with powers. At least that was the legend if
you lived on Inkblot Island. The legend of the dragon star was passed down from
generation to generation. And of course no one would admit that season was
their birthing day. The dragon star appeared after the fall harvest, before the
snow could gather and cover Inkblot Island.
Since
Inkblot Island was unusually shaped; it boasted farmland, forest and fishing
villages. Great for trading all different foods and goods. Also new families
came to settle on this land.
Tash, a honey blond girl about 9 or
10 winters slowly made her way to Gunther's farm. She was carrying a basket
with nuts, berries, herbs and some colored fleece. She knocked on the
farmhouse door, waited a bit and then entered.
Gunther
grunted at her and looked at the basket warily. He was a good farmer, but a bad
trader - or at least what Tash thought.
"Good girl. Tell Magda tomorrow I am making cheese." Gunther said as he handed
over the small bucket of milk. He took everything out of the basket and put in
some eggs and a loaf of bread.
"Thank you, Magda said
the fleece can be made to make several pouches or to start a blanket." Tash said to Gunther's wife
Bianca. Bianca said nothing, but nodded at Tash. Bianca was tending to her last
baby- a girl.
Tash took the basket and left the
house a little quicker. The basket and the pail were not so heavy that Tash
could walk the mile to Magda's house in the forest. Tash tried to remember her
parents; but everything was hazy. Magda told Tash that Tash's parents came on
Ted's boat The Beauty when Tash was about three winters
old. Her parents met off Inkblot Island and came back. The Beauty crashed and Tash's parents died. Ted shook his head
and said he wasn't the captain then. Tash begged to be told more about her
parents. Ted and Magda told her when she reached 14 or 15 winters she could
know more. She was still too young.
