Twice yearly, on the... «Lips Touch: Three Times»
RamingoWS28 марта 2017•Видна всемTwice yearly, on the equinoxes, village elders tend to the meadows. It is only the hunched and white-haired who will go so near the forests, and for good reasons: Druj aren`t tempted by the old. So while the young wait in the safety of the villages, the old go forth and scorch the boundary meadows with firebrands. After the black grass cools, they walk across it, feeling it crunch and crackle under their soles, and they leave their tithes just under the forest`s first shadows for the Druj to come and carry away. Brendy, break, dried fruit and meat, sugar, knives, baskets of new kittens with their eyes still tight. Tales tell that the Druj don`t eat, so the humans don`t know who the food is for and they don`t ask. They simply do as their own grandparents taught them, leave the baskets and keep their eyes down, no matter how great the temptation to peer into the forest. They don`t want to see what might peer back.
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