[Open Post: Tristan] She always loved to swim away / Maybe she'll find an island

[tricky_bowman]

One crisp morning, Tristan comes barging into the common room. The furs are still on his back, as are the heavy boots he strapped around his feet and calves, and as he comes to the hearth, he scatters snow everywhere

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[weristdas_graal]

He might find his fellow knight coming in for his daily ration of bread and cheese and greens, shaking the snow from his cloak and boots and to warm up by the fire. "May the Lord be with you, my brother Tristan," he says. And if Husdent should be in sight, he will look upon the dog with concern. "Though perhaps your companion needs the Lord's mercy even more..."

[tricky_bowman]

"Grammercy, a healer saw to him, and he will heal," Tristan replies. Husdent is resting in a cot, and so the knight comes to clasp arms with Parsifal.

"It's been a time, brother. Art well?"

[weristdas_graal]

He'll breathe a little easier as he accepts and returns the brotherly gesture: his time among the Grail Knights taught him to regard animals as God's creatures to be respected and tended with kindness (after he'd brought one of their swans down with an arrow when he had first stumbled into their domain). "Thanks be to the Lord, that you found someone to tend to your companion," he says. "I have been well: I had been assisting a noble lord, one Eddard Stark, who dwells here as he built a dwelling for his family. And since then, I have been preparing the chapel on the grounds for the winter months." He did have to replace the windows after the earthquake, and those needed to be winterized with shutters.

[tricky_bowman]

"Noble endaevours, brother," and as Tristan happens to be a good friend of Robb's, he adds, "and you found those worthy of your troth. If the son takes after the father, then you gave well indeed."

They might have missed each other on the construction site: he was there too.

He smiles, and caresses Husdent's hair. "Do you reckon the chapel will fare well, yet again?"

[weristdas_graal]

"Aye, they are a most noble family, one which I gladly assist, however they have need," he says, with a smile. "I pray that they fare well in their new dwelling, that it shall stand firm whatever troubles may shock this place.

"I have been bracing the windows against the winds of winter, but I could use an assistant about the grounds, on the days when the snow covers the paths, and an acolyte to assist at Mass."

[tricky_bowman]

Tristan's been scouting the grounds, and smiles a little. "I shall venture by the chapel more often, then," he replies. "So that those beasts remain away, and your folk be safe."

He tilts his head, thinking.

"There are younglings, here, have you thought to ask the mothers?"

[weristdas_graal]

He might tilt his head down, thinking, then soon lifts it, a smile returning to his face, having hit upon a possible candidate. "I could ask the Lady Lystra: she has a young son who is nigh the proper age to learn the rubrics," he says. "She is not a believer, but she has a generous heart and one happy to help those about her."

[tricky_bowman]

"It would do a youth well, to learn the value of such work at an early age," the knight agrees.

He tilts his head, wondering for a split second if that glow has anything to do with lady herself, then dismisses the thought.

"Do let me know if you fare well in that venture."

Might I suggest a wrap in favor of something more current? He has a post here :-)

[weristdas_graal]

"You shall be among the first to know, my brother," he says, pleased.

Good place to fade!