[Wild Roses] Trickwood Unification

[named_by_rhyme]

Title: box traps
'Verse/characters: Trickwood Unification; a tributary baroness, Ruadhan, Ettore, others
Prompt: 21D "war"
Word Count: 892
Notes: after the incident with the crocodile, before the incident with the tiger.

Comments

[taennyn]

They're coming upriver, past her place at the fork of where a big tributary meets another river, and there are more destinations upriver. She collects less when traders are coming back downriver than when they're headed up. And the boats headed upriver she could see from her window were using sail and poles to head farther up, not coasting with gravity down. So, they obviously came past her and she has new stuff, yay!

Only not. Because the Sabaeys have got fed up with her and figured out a way to rig an overland hauling route to get the traders past her bottleneck.

[billradish]

...Neville-who-taught-Ed, on the other hand, once yelled: "Right of way in the name of the Holy Mother Church!" in his best stentorian declaiming-from-the-pulpit voice, and got away with it; people got out of his way. I'm fairly sure clergy aren't supposed to cheat...)

I've already apologized to Tae for saying so but, really. This wins more than the writing. That's awesome.

[taennyn]

Bwahahahahaa. :D

[coastal_physics]

gah.

racing in english bay is bad enough, with the tide causing all sorts of havoc...