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aldersprigThis is to librarygeek's prompt here to my February Giraffe Call.
The Addergoole setting has a landing page here, although Cleone is a new character.
Short summary of the setting: there is magic and people who can use magic (modern fantasy, and then post-apoc fantasy after, well, the apoc) The school, Addergoole, has a long-standing contract by which students tend to graduate with two children who then go to Addergoole themselves in their late teens.
This is placed somewhere after the apocalypse.
By the time anyone noticed, it was far too late.
Cleone took her children from Addergoole, walked with them out into the world, the younger on her back and the older toddling along as best he could.
She walked until she found a place she could live, and set about making it a home.
From that home, she set up a way-station for other Addergoole graduates, or so she called it, a place where those wandering could rest their weary feet and have something to eat and drink before moving on.
And from that home she set up a small school, a place to educate her children and the children of nearby people (and the children of those who passed through).
She set up fields to grow food and fiber, and bakeries to bake bread, and a game preserve in which to hunt, so that her children and the other children were well-fed and well-clothed. She had the roads in the are well-paved, so that carriages could carry the surplus to other areas, so that no child would starve nor suffer, and to carry educational materials and such as well.
She made certain the road from Addergoole to her little home was kept in very good repair indeed, and made sure that the school was always kept very clean and stocked with the best books and the best food she could acquire. Everyone in her area was very well taken care of, especially her children.
Except that nobody left.
Oh, humans came and went and just seemed to decide to stay around. Children grew up and left town and came back with wives or husbands or both. And the Addergoole grads that wandered through... stayed. Just stayed.
By the time anyone noticed, it had been a decade, and it was almost time for her oldest to go off to Addergoole.
By the time anyone noticed, she had quietly amassed an army, willing or no.
By the time anyone noticed, it was far too late for them to stop her.
They Have to Notice Eventually
librarygeek's prompt here to my February Giraffe Call.The Addergoole setting has a landing page here, although Cleone is a new character.
Short summary of the setting: there is magic and people who can use magic (modern fantasy, and then post-apoc fantasy after, well, the apoc) The school, Addergoole, has a long-standing contract by which students tend to graduate with two children who then go to Addergoole themselves in their late teens.
This is placed somewhere after the apocalypse.
By the time anyone noticed, it was far too late.
Cleone took her children from Addergoole, walked with them out into the world, the younger on her back and the older toddling along as best he could.
She walked until she found a place she could live, and set about making it a home.
From that home, she set up a way-station for other Addergoole graduates, or so she called it, a place where those wandering could rest their weary feet and have something to eat and drink before moving on.
And from that home she set up a small school, a place to educate her children and the children of nearby people (and the children of those who passed through).
She set up fields to grow food and fiber, and bakeries to bake bread, and a game preserve in which to hunt, so that her children and the other children were well-fed and well-clothed. She had the roads in the are well-paved, so that carriages could carry the surplus to other areas, so that no child would starve nor suffer, and to carry educational materials and such as well.
She made certain the road from Addergoole to her little home was kept in very good repair indeed, and made sure that the school was always kept very clean and stocked with the best books and the best food she could acquire. Everyone in her area was very well taken care of, especially her children.
Except that nobody left.
Oh, humans came and went and just seemed to decide to stay around. Children grew up and left town and came back with wives or husbands or both. And the Addergoole grads that wandered through... stayed. Just stayed.
By the time anyone noticed, it had been a decade, and it was almost time for her oldest to go off to Addergoole.
By the time anyone noticed, she had quietly amassed an army, willing or no.
By the time anyone noticed, it was far too late for them to stop her.
They Have to Notice Eventually
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Date: 2014-02-09 09:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2014-02-10 02:52 am (UTC)... from doing WHAT?
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Date: 2014-02-10 11:23 am (UTC)Good mother And a Magnificent Bastard.
Date: 2014-02-10 01:35 pm (UTC)Re: Good mother And a Magnificent Bastard.
Date: 2014-02-10 01:36 pm (UTC)I'm glad you like it :-D
Re: Good mother And a Magnificent Bastard.
Date: 2014-02-10 06:30 pm (UTC)We were fine, only 5 hours on 2 different days without power, but enough already! My brother and family had no power for over 72 hours, but fortunately we have cousins within reach.
I looked over some of the background materials. Is there a specific story good to read to know when and how the geases started and how the students are assigned 'partners'?
Thanks! :)
Re: Good mother And a Magnificent Bastard.
Date: 2014-02-10 06:34 pm (UTC)I can answer those two by hand a lot more than I can find story links.
The students find their own partners, for the most part, although sometimes the staff intervene.
The geasa started, mmm, depends on the geas. The program and the requirement to send your children to the school started in the last-70's early-1980's. The geasa on the students began after an experimental test-year of students ended in rebellion, thus indicated that maybe they needed more controls.
Oh, SE PA, ick, you've been getting hit hard, haven't you? We're in southern tier NY (Finger Lakes) and we've been getting an obnoxious-but-not-horrid amount of snow.
Re: Good mother And a Magnificent Bastard.
Date: 2014-02-10 07:19 pm (UTC)Re: Good mother And a Magnificent Bastard.
Date: 2014-02-10 07:20 pm (UTC)