"Every Mile is Two in Winter" - G - Hornblower
Written for day_by_drabble Midwinter Challenge.
Prompt: "Every mile is two in winter." --Jacula Prudentum by George Herbert.
Every morning, after the breakfast dishes have been cleared away and she is sure that mama is settled with her needlework, Maria slips outside and walks to the dock.
She started walking this route after... just before the poorhouse. It was a mile there and back, just the thing for a morning's light exercise. She hadn't walked it every day, but often (she hadn't the right for every day).
But then it had been summer (and she hadn't the right to care), and now it was winter (and her heart sailed with her husband) and every mile felt like two.
Prompt: "Every mile is two in winter." --Jacula Prudentum by George Herbert.
Every morning, after the breakfast dishes have been cleared away and she is sure that mama is settled with her needlework, Maria slips outside and walks to the dock.
She started walking this route after... just before the poorhouse. It was a mile there and back, just the thing for a morning's light exercise. She hadn't walked it every day, but often (she hadn't the right for every day).
But then it had been summer (and she hadn't the right to care), and now it was winter (and her heart sailed with her husband) and every mile felt like two.