Location:Ostrey — The Village Hall, The East Road, a fold of hills · The Pavilion — The Workshop
Date/Time:17 Flamefade 9943 AZI, Grindday, first light to past midnight (outside)
Realm:Lower Realm
Eleven bowls of porridge, in eleven kitchens, along one street, in the cold before first light. Every house could have been named from the hedge-line by what was in the pot. Oats in all of them. Honey in three, which was more honey than Ostrey could afford in Flamefade, which meant somebody had been saving it. Milk in nine. In one, at the end of the street by the well, there was an egg beaten into the porridge, as a mother does when she wants a child to have something to remember.
