steady as the beating drum
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Date: 14 July

Setting: Outside of the Town Hall

Time: Early evening

Character Form: Optime
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She had seen what Dawali had returned with, and remained silent as she ushered Sakari from the Town Hall — there was no need for the two of them to be there while he spoke with a council member. While her niece went off to do some task that she found pleasant, Chitsa herself kept busy with the stock of wood near the Town Hall, disappearing into the forest to gather more while the place she considered 'home' — at least until she found time to find her own home — was being used for more important purposes. Trekking through the forest was easy enough, finding the lost branches of the trees was equally so, but something unsettling radiated in her stomach as she piled on each bit of tinder. Months had passed since leaving the Great Tribe, and she wondered what was so wrong that the Chieftan felt it necessary to send a council member to the small AniWayan settlement.

Her thoughts made the hours pass and by the time she returned, the sun had grown warm and orange as it started the slow descent into summer's evening. Ember-hued hands worked to bundle the sticks and branches into something useable by each AniWayan who came to claim firewood, periwinkle eyes focused intently on the work at hand to keep her mind off of the unpleasant past and possibly unpleasant present. As she worked, the world turned off. Sounds faded into nothing while the words of folk songs sung to her by Agitsi rose into her mind.

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