Again: Kokopelli would be just as angry if it was a Random Person. He has no especial loyalty to the other Tricksters. He's a force of nature, not a man ( Read more... )

Spring has progressed, and the Garden is growing. The Garden always grows, even in the winter, but it is different this time; this time the tree in the center does not follow the pattern of the seasons, but instead a slower, deeper pattern, mimicking the healing of the one lying at its roots ( Read more... )

Quiet.

The Garden is at once large and small, stretching further than can be imagined yet as small and comforting as a treasured few square metres in the backyard. A man could walk for hours and not find the edge, if that was what was needed, although there is a wall of sorts, created by a hedge reaching high. Set in the hedge is a simple wooden ( Read more... )

It's still close enough to winter that the early spring morning is uncomfortably chilly, and many of the men are absent this early. Those who remain are clad in jackets and scarves as they sow the ground with salt, fingers reddening in the cool air ( Read more... )

There is a small town, midway between Kayenta and Chinle, and it has always been a prosperous town. Its crops grow good and green and strong, its animals are plentiful and fertile, its people are cheerful, friendly, generous folk.

There is another small town, closer to Kayenta but still within a day's walk, that is not so prosperous. It survives, ( Read more... )

One of Kokopelli's favourite towns is midway between Kayenta and Chinle, a town barely large enough to be graced with the name. It's largely a farming community, self-sufficient, and indeed the very fact that the people get their living from the land means that he is always welcome there, when he chooses to show himself. And show himself he does, ( Read more... )

Winter is a time for rest.

He's not resting at the moment, because he promised Belle he'd make apples so she wouldn't have to eat souls and get herself and her pretty little host locked up.
"Or perhaps I'm really the beast in disguise?"
He has doubts about the amicability of those two. And two shouldn't be one. It upsets the balance.

Kokopelli ( Read more... )