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Serenity

Chapter II: Nepenthean Eve

One sennight did the woodland age
since Serenity’s sorrow incited;
since Faith, the Dryads’ trusted sage,
her sister to Esbat invited.
And Serenity waited night after night
as the full Moon’s eve had near’d,
and gathered her hopes upon the rite
as she readied to meet her wyrd.

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[Last Update: Decemberrd, 2017]

¶XIX. The night of the next full moon, Serenity and Charity stowed away together into a dark corner of the Emerald Forest, and there Charity began to work her seid.

¶XX. Under the light of Diana they sat, and Charity gathered herbs that Serenity didn’t recognize, and with her staff she mixed them into the mud, singing in the ancient Faenaril tongue.

¶XXI. She sang her rune as only a Shaman could, the words flowing from her on wafts of moonlit air. And her heart came forth into the words themselves as her breath quavered, singing words that it seemed were meant by their very construction to be sung as her soul outstretched, and trilled the song softly aloft her lips.

¶XXII. And with her stave she stirred the unction, ever her voice upborne as she did, begaling it; and when she finished stirring she removed her staff from the mud and placed it down beside her.

¶XXIII. She gathered up the mud then, and began anointing Serenity’s body with the salve she had crafted, beginning first with the breast nearest Serenity’s saddened heart.

¶XXIV. As the two stood, Charity completed her rune and slathered her sister completely with the ointment, and then smiled. Charity then bade Serenity not wash herself until the last of it had dried and fallen from her skin.

¶XXV. And thus the work of Charity was wrought.


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Imegesis
§αI: “Serenity’s Sorrow”
§αII: “Nepenthean Eve”
§αIII: “Embrocation”
§αIV: “Enchantment”
§αV: “Raven, Heroness, and Crow”
§αVI: “Of The Fairish Courts”
§αVII: “Tombestry”
§αVIII: “The Hallowkells”
§αIX: “Treacle and Tonic”
§αX: “Fearfullest Bliss”
§αXI: “Faith Besought”
§αXII: “Departing Paradise”
⚑ = You Are Here.

The Descent of the Dryad
Επυλλιον Αλφα: Antegesis
Επυλλιον Βητα: Imegesis
Επυλλιον Γαμμα: Diegesis
Επυλλιον Δηλτα: Exegesis
⚑ = You Are Here.

The Sovereignty Cycle
The Descent of the Drayad
The Phantasmata
The Book of Rowans
Chaos & Virtue
⚑ = You Are Here.

The Palæoboreanica
The Geneticon
The Sovereignty Cycle
⚑ = You Are Here.

Ancient Borea
The Borean World
The Palæoboreanica
Languages
People & Races
Monsters
⚑ = You Are Here.

Fiction
Ancient Borea
Red the Blue Devil
The Nocturnals
The Spacebunnies
Metazoids
Solar Civil War
⚑ = You Are Here.



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