I'm not really the one to ask, to be honesty. Head chef in the kitchens keeps an eye on what we need. I just eat it.
...That said, we can never get Summer fruit down from Kazin this time of year (funny, that). Strawberries, blueberries, any of those would be great. Except raspberries, they're a bit too sweet.
The dullest day on the Raykinian calendar. It's a religious... I hesitate to say 'holiday' since here that implies a day off work. A religious observance. For most of the population, it involves going to the nearest cemetery and paying respects to Aeia, our goddess of death and the desert, by placing a rock on a pile that grows as the day goes on. For Lin, goddess of life and water, you throw a palm frond into the river and pray that way.
For me, it involves three and a half hours of listening to reports from crotchety old ministers begging for money in a dignified manner while they try to convince me and the treasurer that their department is the most important in the palace. Three and a half hours of the same old rhetoric year after year. And of course they're all watching me the whole time while I sit there taking notes and pretending I'm interested, because otherwise they'll try and catch me on the way to the cemetery afterwards and try to put their case forwards again.
High and holy blood of the goddesses, it is tedious.
Alas, being a religious day, there's tradition to be observed every hour from pre-dawn to around midnight. All the royal-related bits are over, though. We're into the family end of the day, which is great for me when I have no blood relations left. I tend to invade on the twins. I don't think they mind. I hope not, anyway =/
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...That said, we can never get Summer fruit down from Kazin this time of year (funny, that). Strawberries, blueberries, any of those would be great. Except raspberries, they're a bit too sweet.
Thanks for the offer, quael!
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Me and Nelnir can bring some fruit to ya! If we can get that Force guy to bring us there. We got some great cherries too!
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By Force-guy I'm assuming War? He knows the way, yeah.
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For me, it involves three and a half hours of listening to reports from crotchety old ministers begging for money in a dignified manner while they try to convince me and the treasurer that their department is the most important in the palace. Three and a half hours of the same old rhetoric year after year. And of course they're all watching me the whole time while I sit there taking notes and pretending I'm interested, because otherwise they'll try and catch me on the way to the cemetery afterwards and try to put their case forwards again.
High and holy blood of the goddesses, it is tedious.
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