New Fiction! - Rain and Joy
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A cooling wind had settled over the courtyards and archery buttes. The matriarch and steward of Britannia unrolled the freshly deliver parchment with unveiled adoration. Breaking the wax seal of farmer’s plowshares, Dawn was careful not to tear the edges.
The sun dimmed behind darkening clouds, and her heart lifted with the contents of the correspondence as well as the promise of rain.
Dawn smiled reading the slow, deliberate hand of her husband’s handwriting. The letter lifted her spirits as always. She had packed sparingly, knowing her visit back to the shared homestead would be a brief but welcome break.
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