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Mother Krisha

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Registered: 2019-05-04

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Why Make A Promise, Hope is already Basically Gone-REDWALL LOG

WHO:

Krisha-Badger mother

Benar-Abbot

Gracie-Dibbun

Elbio-Hare from Long Patrol

LOG:

Benar is sitting in his large wicker chair, his feet propped up on the foot-stool, the table to his left holds a large pitcher of ice tea and cake. His lap is full of papers he is reading through and making notations on, the Abbot has moved out of his office to work down here. There is another wicker chair, an extra large badger sized one he keeps here for Krisha should she decide to join him again.   

Krisha has been...inside, someone made her moody yesterday, it wasn't Benar it was someone else, she does come out to sit down, a nod hello as she does sit, she has her notepad as she has a couple of things she was looking at also.   

Everyone is busy with pads of paper today! Gracie the gosling comes waddling out of the Abbey with her blankie tied around her neck like a cloak, a pad of paper and a pencil gripped taking its place in her grip. She has her tongue sticking out a little as she toddles along, busily drawing away. She doesn't realize that she's about to run into the Abbot's chair!   

Benar smiles at Krisha and pours her a glass of his ice tea and pats her arm in a friendly manner and turns back to his reports on harvest yields and expected storage requirements, preserve making plans for excess fruit and the like. It is all very dry and boring stuff but someone has to read the reports and make sure the abbey works. He's not noticed the gosling buried in his notes as he is.   

Krisha nods, she does sit and catches site of the only dibbun thats in the abbey now Graice and goes to make sure she doesn't crash into a chair before sitting down in her own chair. She shows Benar a note she has , mainly that some repairs going well and how Elbio mentioned wanting to maybe live at the abbey.
   
Jumping slightly, Gracie is deflected from crashing! The gosling follows the badger and goes to tug on her habit. "Muvver Krisha, do you /wikes/ my drawing???" It's a bunch of flowers. The Dibbun looks expectant and hopeful....and a note won't mean anything to her. She can't read.   

Benar smiles softly and watches Gracie with a sideways note, this is what he has been waiting for. He knew sooner or later Gracie would run into Krisha now she has started coming out of her room again. He turns a page and makes more notes, just working abbot, no mysterious plans here nope.
   
Krisha smiles as she looks at the drawing, a nod that its nice drawing.Its a fairly good smile as it could be better but its still a smile.   

The gosling Gracie bounces a little, jiggling the drawing. "What shouwds I draws next??" She stares up at the badger's face, fully expecting an answer. A quick flip through the notepad shows that she's been drawing a lot, including some of the other Dibbuns getting kidnapped and Sister Ginny getting killed. She has no other way to deal with all of that, so she's drawing about it.   

Benar looks sad at seeing the images in Gracie's book and reaches down to smooth her feathers, "What do you think she should draw Krisha? Maybe something nice?"   

Krisha frowns looking away and then nods, she still is not speaking yet, it seems unsure when she ever will speak again.   

Benar smiles, "Go on Krisha," he encourages, "Please answer Gracie, only you can suggest what she could drawm" He says quietly, "She needs her Mother and that's you Krisha."   

Gracie is getting that sad look again. "You no wike me drawings?" Tears start to form, and she slumps to the ground. "I just doin' my bestest!"   

Krisha frowns as she just shrugs, she then frowns and walks off quietly.
   
Benar sighs and reaches down to pick up Gracie, "Mother Krisha loves your drawing Gracie," The abbot says, frowning at Krisha, "But sadly Krisha is... ill at tjhe moment and she is having trouble speaking."   

Gracie gets picked up, still sniffling. "She /sick/? Den why she no in da Infirm?" She leans close and whispers to the squirrel (unwittingly being loud enough that the badger can hear it, too), "Is it 'cause Miz Ang'la so /scary/??"   

Benar stands up and looks down at Gracie and smiles "No, she is allowed out, she just needs to spend time with those she loves and who love her to help her recover. So Gracie I need you to draw a picture for Krisha every day, maybe of the orchards and the trees and the pond?"
   
Thinking for a moment, Gracie nods, then scampers off. "I's draw every day! But they be a surprise!" And she's off to draw the badger's first surprise

==An hour Later==

Krisha decicded a walk be good around the grounds, she was starting to avoid beasts more so now and mayeb deep down she was worried, worried she just mess up again as she still believed it her fault no matter what others said. Maybe partway she was finally starting to question if they were right and it was nothing she could do after all. She sighs a little as she looks at the grounds.Yes there was Gracie still, one loney dibbunthat needed her, but what if she was taken too somehow.A frown again, she would just go further into depression if something happen to the one dibbun still here.   

Elbio walks closer as he seen her from the walltop "Hallo...all clear in de woods and de road lass, you doing good today?" He then backs up as likely asking if she was doing good was a bad idea but too late the words escaped him.   

Krisha looks at the hare and glares, then the glare turns to a frown and tears.She didn't bother to write down anything, why write unless it's important.   

Elbio keeps silent and then speaks "Ok ok..I have a plan, maybe its a bad plan but I am supposed ta be helping de abbey and this would...find...locate news right? On where de beasts ended up and , ya know extra long bit of a patrol to make sure unwanted beasts are not too close to de abbey"   

Krisha just stares at him and sits down, she writes =Locate who?= She shows him the note with a well tell me look on her face.
   
Elbio peeks at the note carefully "De dibbuns lass, de others as well ...ya know someone knows am I right? Beasts don't vanish into thin air ya know, right?"   

Krisha shrugs, she writes to show=Maybe... a lot of things could happen, found the slavers and are now slaves, got lost,drowned, killed by the slavers and bodys not found...lots of things, they likely would of been back by now the longer they are gone the less and less chance they are alive...all cause of ....= She almost puts me then just leaves it blank, as ok maybe she couldnt of stoped it or maybe if she saw it she been dead now too...still so much is hapopening lately its just all bad...slavers..rats, whats next?   

Elbio reads the note and frowns "Well...all possible but lets hope not lass...look"He salutes her "I promise I will not return without some info or best case maybe I find them even"   

Krisha snorts =They wont be found, its been too long.Sparrows or even other birds no signs of them, no seeing anything from what traveling beasts said, no one has seen them since they left, ...one time in a clearing but nothing after that and that was right after they left and didnt return, no messages from them...nothing...zero....and beasts want me to have hope? What Hope...its gone basically= A couple tears fall,then more as she drop the note and rushes off not wishing to have full blown mental breakdown in front of the hare.   

Elbio carefully picks up the note and reads it, he folds the paper and places it in his pocket and quietly heads to the kitchens, he manages to get a small loaf of bread, some cheese, a half dozen scones and fill a flash with ale, he also gets some water into a waterskin and heads to the gate to find his longbow and saber.He frowns and then is off, weather this is a good idea or not remains to be seen, he made a promise and he wants to try and keep it, find some info or the missing beasts themself, or just become from wanderer.   

Krisha meanwhile has no clue he left, she made it to the kitchen yard and , not finding the abbot deciced to curl up in the small area by the pottery wheel and small forge and have a good cry.