[Fic] "Getting to Know You" -- original, Ekanu

"Getting to Know You" is set between Harvest and The Painted Sky. It's a tag to "Small Mysteries," which I have not finished nor posted any excerpts of. So. Context.

After her relationship with Denifar falls apart, Ekanu returns briefly to Vinaeo for some more studying with Master Irova, and then goes to Yanomy as part of a team of chapterhouse inspectors, who basically go from city to city making sure the various chapterhouses are keeping the terms of their charters with the local governments and abiding by the University-wide rules established by the High Council in the Motherhouse. They start in Neirot, head north to Tourin and Nerad, cut inland to Reshios and Sinvan, and then intend to head south to Pythas. (They probably check out some smaller chapterhouses en route, but those are the big ones.)

The trouble is that shortly after they leave Osillipin, which is a small city on the Sinora River, everyone except Ekanu catches a nasty local flu-like disease. So Ekanu proposes that she travel to Pythas alone in order to begin the inspection roughly on time. Along the way, she meets a rather reserved man named Ain Taylak, and they agree to travel together. Despite a semi-unspoken pact not to pry into each other's pasts or reasons for traveling, they grow close and Ekanu, at least, is reluctant to part ways when they reach Pythas.

She's quite surprised to discover, in her first meeting with the chapterhouse council, that Ain is a Master in Residence at the University! But she's very, very busy, trying to do the work of three or four people, so they don't have much time to discuss their potential relationship until her fellow inspectors arrive.

( Getting to Know You )

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This was not at all what I meant to write -- I was trying to do a little dialogue scene with Ain asking Ekanu how many languages she speaks -- but I started giving that a touch of context by having Barathia and Machiyoge arrive, and the story veered out of my control. *sigh*

Whatever. It's done, it's posted, and I am going to bed.

[Fic] "Getting to Know You" -- original, Ekanu

"Getting to Know You" is set between Harvest and The Painted Sky. It's a tag to "Small Mysteries," which I have not finished nor posted any excerpts of. So. Context.

After her relationship with Denifar falls apart, Ekanu returns briefly to Vinaeo for some more studying with Master Irova, and then goes to Yanomy as part of a team of chapterhouse inspectors, who basically go from city to city making sure the various chapterhouses are keeping the terms of their charters with the local governments and abiding by the University-wide rules established by the High Council in the Motherhouse. They start in Neirot, head north to Tourin and Nerad, cut inland to Reshios and Sinvan, and then intend to head south to Pythas. (They probably check out some smaller chapterhouses en route, but those are the big ones.)

The trouble is that shortly after they leave Osillipin, which is a small city on the Sinora River, everyone except Ekanu catches a nasty local flu-like disease. So Ekanu proposes that she travel to Pythas alone in order to begin the inspector roughly on time. Along the way, she meets a rather reserved man named Ain Taylak, and they agree to travel together. Despite a semi-unspoken pact not to pry into each other's pasts or reasons for traveling, they grow close and Ekanu, at least, is reluctant to part ways when they reach Pythas.

She's quite surprised to discover, in her first meeting with the chapterhouse council, that Ain is a Master in Residence at the University! But she's very, very busy, trying to do the work of three or four people, so they don't have much time to discuss their potential relationship until her fellow inspectors arrive.

( Getting to Know You )

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This was not at all what I meant to write -- I was trying to do a little dialogue scene with Ain asking Ekanu how many languages she speaks -- but I started giving that a touch of context by having Barathia and Machiyoge arrive, and the story veered out of my control. *sigh*

Whatever. It's done, it's posted, and I am going to bed.

Spirit Play, week 22

Because there was an intergenerational service last week, we had to combine two lessons into one today: the Passover story and the faux Passover Seder. (It's only a faux Seder because first, Passover doesn't start until Wednesday evening; second, we're UU, not Jewish; and third, we don't have time to do a full Seder even if we wanted to.)

I did the story and the lesson while Bob helped with the visual aids. I mostly adlibbed the story rather than using the curriculum version, because the curriculum version was horribly abridged. They took out all the stuff about Miriam (without which it makes no sense for Moses to know that he's one of the Hebrews) and all the stuff about the plagues and the blood on the doorframes (which seems to me to miss half the point of the story, as well as the reason for the holiday's name). So I put all that back in, and managed to be slightly interactive as well: after naming and describing each plague, I said, "So Moses went back to Pharaoh and said, 'Now will you let my people go?' And Pharaoh said..." and waited for the kids to shout, "NO!"

I was a little hazier on the actual Seder (what can I say; stories stick in my head more than rituals) but we got through that safely and then had matzoh, charoset, and grape juice for snack. We had to skip joys and sorrows at the start of the lesson, but we managed to squeeze everything in!

Next week is Easter, which will be another intergenerational service. Possibly I will finally remember to get my pledge check into the offering plate that day!

Spirit Play, week 22

Because there was an intergenerational service last week, we had to combine two lessons into one today: the Passover story and the faux Passover Seder. (It's only a faux Seder because first, Passover doesn't start until Wednesday evening; second, we're UU, not Jewish; and third, we don't have time to do a full Seder even if we wanted to.)

I did the story and the lesson while Bob helped with the visual aids. I mostly adlibbed the story rather than using the curriculum version, because the curriculum version was horribly abridged. They took out all the stuff about Miriam (without which it makes no sense for Moses to know that he's one of the Hebrews) and all the stuff about the plagues and the blood on the doorframes (which seems to me to miss half the point of the story, as well as the reason for the holiday's name). So I put all that back in, and managed to be slightly interactive as well: after naming and describing each plague, I said, "So Moses went back to Pharaoh and said, 'Now will you let my people go?' And Pharaoh said..." and waited for the kids to shout, "NO!"

I was a little hazier on the actual Seder (what can I say; stories stick in my head more than rituals) but we got through that safely and then had matzoh, charoset, and grape juice for snack. We had to skip joys and sorrows at the start of the lesson, but we managed to squeeze everything in!

Next week is Easter, which will be another intergenerational service. Possibly I will finally remember to get my pledge check into the offering plate that day!