#rivervale_lodge

Dagmar is at the stables, Stormwake and Spark are out ad about under her supervision, and playing. the Big stallion tends towards dignity but snow brings out his playful side.

Spark bounces around his dad

Star cuts loose for a bit, dashing around the paddock with snow flying in her wake. I've still got it! She seems to say, showing off.

Spark is delighted, his mom and dad both playing? Whee... snow scoop wing tips attack!

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Meanwhile inside, Brekke drifts to.. is it sleep? by the fire? maybe it's just a waking dream... a dream of a tree that was, and of a work that might be

This place, somewhere between communing with the 'Fire and merely drifting, is a welcome territory, if not precisely familiar.

But paths of what might be are rarely cofined to one only, even in a world where fate is often a ruler over even kings...

it comes in threes

in one vision she dreams of the axe yet forged, it will need a handle, strong and dark, warm and cool to the had in equal measure.

In another, she dreams of a great sundial, polished and preserved so it knows neither rot nor breakage from elements

The first makes her hand grip and relax as if she can sense the handle already...

The sundial vision gets a slight grin at she shine of polished wood in a sunbeam....

And the third....she can sense it...?

And in the last, a chest of fine engravings, strong bones so a trroll might stand on it, yet delicate markings of forest trees and the beasts that live in it

A panoramic caving of trees, wolves, Squirrels, deer, more trees, a stream, and bear.. so one might walk around it and feel thhey traveled

A masterwork. It would take great time. The idea pleases.

the choice, tto mix and merge or deny is hers

The question of whether there's enough wood for all three projects wakes her, and she looks over at the collected pieces.

If she tried for all three, there would be NO room for error. the great sundial might still be large, but not as immense, and even then, zero mistakes

Decisions. She must consider further.

She has time..

And visions worth considering

(End scene)