{"id":61,"date":"2013-09-16T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2013\/09\/16\/16-after-the-farmers-left\/"},"modified":"2013-09-16T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T14:00:00","slug":"16-after-the-farmers-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2013\/09\/16\/16-after-the-farmers-left\/","title":{"rendered":"16. After the Farmers Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Unfinished Song: Initiate<\/i><\/span><\/a>\"\"<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

(Start at the Beginning of the Novel<\/a>)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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“behind blue ice” by julia-julia<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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\u2026take <\/span><\/span>my leave now, however, as I must also visit Full Basket clandhold before the sun sets.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Is there anything else I could do to convince Abiono not to invite me to become a Tavaedi? <\/span><\/span><\/i>Dindi despaired while the rest of the clan fussed over Abiono\u2019s departure. <\/span>My life is a colossal joke that\u2019s funny to everyone but me. <\/span><\/i>Uncle Lobo was still chortling.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Once the guest was gone, taking the excitement with him, a general exodus out of the kitchen followed. One by one the others finished, burped and left, until only Dindi and her mother remained. The kitchen was very hollow and empty without three dozen bodies filling it with life. The smell of farmers\u2019 sweat lingered, mixed with spicy food aromas and smoke from the burning dung.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Dindi sniffled.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u201cLady of Mercy,\u201d said Mama under her breath. Muttering to her- self, she went to the oven, where she placed a dollop of bean mash from a storage pot onto a piece of flat bread. She laid cheese on top, and folded over the three corners of the bread. She placed it on the pottery bread shovel and pushed it into the oven, which was kept stoked all day. When she decided that the <\/span>pisha <\/span><\/i>was crisped to her satisfaction, she pressed it into Dindi\u2019s hands. \u201cEat, eat.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Dindi pushed it away. She hid her blue face against her drawn up knees.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cYou behave a like a child,\u201d Mama said. She lifted Dindi\u2019s chin. \u201cBut you\u2019re twice seven years, now, sweetling, and past your moon-blood. If you lay with a man, he could make you a mother.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cI know I\u2019m a burden to everyone around me. I try to do what\u2019s right, but everything I weave gets tangled.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cThere is still a chance you will be chosen.\u201d \u201cGreat Aunt Sullana obviously doesn\u2019t think so.\u201d \u201cWhat does she know?\u201d \u201cMaybe something I don\u2019t,\u201d said Dindi. She lifted her head just\u00a0<\/span><\/span>enough to peer at her mother through tear dewed eyelashes. \u201cYou weren\u2019t chosen.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Mama stilled. \u201cNo. I wasn\u2019t.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cBut you could have been the best dancer of your generation. Everyone thought so. Then, one day, instead of choosing you to dance magic, they told you could never dance, ever.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cIt…wasn\u2019t as bad as all that,\u201d Mama said. \u201cBy then, I had your father. Soon I was trying hard to have a child. Sometimes you have to let a dream die.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cI just want to dance.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cOh, Dindi.\u201d Mama put down the <\/span>pisha<\/span><\/i>. \u201cIf you won\u2019t eat, at least let me clean you up.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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She went to the shelves in the corner. There she fiddled with various jars, until she returned with noxious, sharp smelling goo on a rabbit skin cloth.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u00a0\u201cCome here, my little blueberry face,\u201d she said, taking Dindi by the chin. Mama wiped the ick on Dindi\u2019s cheeks and scrubbed. Hard.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cOw!\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cStop wiggling.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cAre you washing me or flaying me?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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\u201cIf you prefer, we can just rub blue soap over the rest of\u2026 <\/span><\/span>

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Author’s Note<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/i><\/i><\/span><\/center>

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For some reason, my mother really likes this scene.<\/i><\/i><\/span><\/center>

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