A Rough Day by Tallis Steelyard

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A Rough Day

It has to be admitted that after a particularly hard day, people may not necessarily be at their best. Also people chose many different ways to relax. I suppose it’s lucky we’re not all the same. I’m also well aware that we shouldn’t be judgemental in these things. Still I am of the school that suggests that relaxation is a placid occupation. One sits, one contemplates, one might even doze. Laxey seems to agree with me in this.

Maljie on the other hand is of the school where relaxation is merely energetic busy-ness, but a different sort of energetic busy-ness to that in which she is usually engaged.

Now it happens that the Shrine of Aea in her Aspect as the Personification of Tempered Enthusiasm has vague ownership of a small lake (or large pond) which lies on the boundary of …

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