After dinner Kyu texted one more time “ has masters house fallen”

it took three days for a response, in that time Sampson helped Kyu fall asleep, so Kyu had better days but mostly just worked. Kyu planted mulberry starts cut much more hay. Rook had brought a large dead and dried flower head that had taken two day to figure out was beat seeds. it was such a thoughtful gift that Kyu had wooped at the discovery and scooped up some feathers to make amines with the river.

Kyu approached slowly “if you tell me your name i’ll call you that but having nothin else shall i call you Melys it means sweet? also i brought you something to play with” Kyu sat on a big rock and set a feather in the water watching it float and bob in the water till it was out of view then set another feather. “I sorry for taking the gold with out permission” this father was drowned but still danced as the current took it away “oh, um well I have a well, i can leave you alone.” this feather was caught in a whirlpool spinning “I men if you don’t mind me washing and getting gold from time to time I think you are the most beautiful river I have ever seen so I’m happy to come back if your okay with it?” the swirling feather was free of the eddy and flowed down the river Kyu smiled “do you like the name Melys?” this feather swirled for a bit then washed down “well I’m very please to meet you Melys my name is Kyu, I hope we can be friend.” this father had a turbulent rid but made its way down with that settled Kyu called up “Rook are you here?”

Rook flew to Kyus shoulder inspecting the empty hands and a bit disgusted. Kyu took a deep breath and as if saying rehears lines prattled off “you have given me two gifts. one i did not want and one i and very thankful for” Rook cocked his glossy black had to the side  but Kyu pushed on “so as a thank you for the latter i return the former” Kyu sure they were about to get bit, grabbed Rooks beak pulled it down just a bit and kissed the bridge letting go the bird was already half in flight so Kyu Ran off! the babble of the river sounded much like laughing.

once home from the bravest thing Kyu had ever done Kyu was met by another message again. “No”  was something broken? why only no no no? I need to test it with something I know but how to put it “am I staying with my blood relative.” no names no connections but Cypher knows who i’m with so this should clear things up he has to say yes to that!… right… 

Kyu planted half of the beet seeds and took great care of the tree starts fearing that the apples had just died. as the straw dried Kyu brought them in and piled the bushels in the corner of the store room. two of the small boxes Cypher had packed for Kyu had been survival kits now having needle and thread proved useful as Kyu fashioned a great big square pillow come mattress and stuffed it full of straw. having to constantly push the straw back under the canvas was annoying so a big crunch bed was the trick! 

Kyu had so much straw packed in the house Sampson finally had to ask “why so much” 

“Well the bedding will go flat and once its all small peace from us laying on it it’s good for the compost and as mulch for the garden.” the straw they had been sleeping on did go over the winter garden. once the new bed was finished. unfortunately it was just a great bag of straw so no matter how Kyu tried there was no gating it in the loft. 

Sampson had watch this for a moment walking in to a vaudeville show, the bed flopped back over sending it and Kyu to the floor Sampson hefted the bag of straw pushing it up and in to the little space with little trouble Kyu stayed on the floor watching too tired to care for getting up “that’s not fair you know I’m tall for a human!”

Sampson rolled his eyes “ that should be a timely  improvement. he got a length of good rope and tied it to a nail on the back door Kyu stood to fallow this odd behavior Samson took the rope and fedd it to the well past the smoker then the outhouse.  and back to the house “this line you use if its snowing Anytime its snowing! snow blindness is a real thing out here and if you think your river is a harmless attention seeker you have never seen a snow storm!”

“Oh okay it’s still not that cold out do you think that is coming soon?”

Better safe than sorry I’m going to cut more wood your birds warning has me worried.”

with the smoker they had a lot of food saved but how long could that last with the two of them. Kyu had figured out that Sampson only brought back about half of the hunt eating the first half in the field so they had some maybe month and a half of food for both of them.