Veridia Round 9: Shep

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The end of winter and spring's slow, quiet blossoming has, for whatever reason, put Shep into... not quite a melancholy mood, but she's been musing about the passing season—and passing time. She can see the delicate lines on her face when she sees her reflection in still water; her girlfriend Diseta, who is only a few years older than her, has gray threaded through her short brown hair now. Even Gytha, who seemed half a child when she moved in with Shep, is now grown and married and has not one but two children of her own.
And Shep is still doing the same things, still tending the bees and struggling to keep her wheat sprouts alive each spring, and she's not unhappy, but she thinks that maybe she could be... doing more?


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