I took up despair with Daisy younger sister Primrose. Primrose was an altogether strange girl, years younger then Daisy so had for the most part slipped attention on anyone that would make her act as a young lady should. She was their parent last ditch effort to have a son so by the time a seventh daughter came around she was largely left to her own devices, they had so many daughter already that no good marriage could be fathomed for her and with already aged parents at her birth strict decorum fell by the way side. leading to a stubbornly independent young woman. As up standing as Daisy was Primrose was wild. Always in the woods picking flowers, hanging around the craftsmen or farmers. I had even seen her in town taking with one of the veterans at the smiths! No one minded her as she always made herself useful that and most pitted her a future that most likely would be destitute. she was to high bread to marry local and with too many sisters to ever have a chance of a proper marriage. 

With no marriage in either of our foreseeable futures it seem safe to cling to each other as our small world roll and sook with the turmoil of the choices made in the capital. My daily walk to see Daisy became to see Primrose. Unlike Daisy, Primrose was not dutifully in the study keeping the books and managing the estate, she was out at some thing or another and would leave me directions to her location. At first I found this rude but there was so little to do now that Daisy was gone that I found my self quietly fallowing along as Primrose went about her daily adventures in the village. I leaned not just the town gossip of  who had a baby or was courting who and the like. however I also learned the darker things, all the men wounds that never healed from the battlefield. The families close to starving from losing all their provider. I learned Primroses time in the woods was to find medical herbs to help the wounded.  I also leaned of the women in the shadow taking up mens work just to get by.  Primrose was smart like her sister but in a different way she could talk to people and she knew how to listen. However she had this backward way of only listening to the people below her station and challenging the ones above her. 

This all came to a head wen the cleric tough a sermon on women not doing mens work and the shame he was seeing in the fields and dark alleys. He tried to point out that if it was a good thing then they wouldn’t have to hide their work. Primrose stood up and asked “then should they starve how do they feed their families if no one can work?”

The cleric responded “They may remarry or ask the church for alms, no one in our town will starve but no woman should labor other for children!”

Primrose was shocked by this lack of understanding of the real situation is his gold trimmed velvet robes, he was revelry seen out in the town and it was known that if you ask the church for aid it was set up as a loan that many could not ever repay as a way to discharge from asking in the first place.

 So Primrose organized the women of the village to stop any labor that would go to the church or anyone that supported the cleric. with in a month of having no cooked food cleaned cloths or any of the other things the village now supplied, most on the backs of women. The cleric  was soon finding passages to support that we must all do our part in hard times and other passages that had been there all along that he had chosen to ignore till it served him. Primrose was very vocal about that to anyone that would listen and by then even for her young age she was respected so many did listen to her.

I respected her too, I did not have the same idolization of her perfection and triad of secrets as I had with Daisy but we had something deeper, a true care of our town and those that lived in it. However I was never allowed to get my hands dirty, James had made it clear that if Primrose sullied my name or clothing in any way he would put an end to our relationship. Martha admitted that James only aloud it, to keep me occupied “as any woman of my age should be running a house hold by now so he did know what to do with me any more.”  

We settled in a new phase of life where a lent a gentle hand and ear to any that needed, I learned so much more of life and a bit of my own power of seeing how everything was connected. I could clearly see when some one was in need and some one had just the thing to help. so I in my way I helped weave people closer together. I even negotiated the pub to be a place for baby care during daylight hours as all the men who couldn’t work were sitting around not being useful, just trying to drowned their nightmares. This meant more of the women could actually get things done and the barkeep Marg would pay each man that put in a day at child care in a pint. The men were reluctant but they soon came around and there were many hands to help out. The pints came out of my spending money but with the war the normal things like fine lace and ribbons were not seen in our village anymore so it was good to keep some coin flowing in town. 

Our town started to really flourish again everyone tighten their belts but everyone got along and our small prosperity  cought the attention of regional church leadership. The Cardinal visited  to see how we were getting on so well with the rest of the country suffering so badly. When he saw the world upside down women working hard jobs in daylight and men in child care he dismissed the our cleric.  Then raged against the way things were being done, he sent men to take me and Primrose. I do not know what happened to her but I do know that James stoped them from taking me. We were clearly pointed out as the orchestrators of the change by the cleric or anyone who didn’t like the new changes.  Things were tens and quiet, days stretched on and the atmosphere was suffocating as I was no longer aloud to leave our estate and what little I herd of  our village it was suffering too.  

Two nights after Primrose was taken Martha woke me. She was  tight jawed and heart broken “dear you have to go, they are going to take Jame if you do not go and once he is gone they will just come take you. so please save him and yourself. We will do more to look after the people, I promise you we will look after the people better but please go with them.”

I had know the cardinal been had come to talk to James twice a day sense they had taken Primrose. I thought I would be safe I had alway been safe, as long as I didn’t tell any one my secret as long as I played my roll. I was completely above it all this was different and I started to feel real fear  “I will trust you to take care of the village please find Primrose and let me know how she is doing?”