{"id":293,"date":"2010-09-30T22:27:49","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T02:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2010-09-30T22:27:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T02:27:49","slug":"hia-breoedd-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thefourpartland.com\/blog\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"Hia Breoedd, Part #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first in a short #FridayFlash serial based in The Four Part Land. Events that take place here will have a large impact in upcoming TFPL novels.<\/em><\/p>\n

Ice flowed out from the western mountains, a glacier that had existed for so long that no one could date its origin. Nor could they date those of the people who lived upon it, the Fferedig Ddynion, a culture so apart that it did not interact with those around them. Instead, they preferred to stay behind their barrier of dead and wasted lands that cut them off from Tri-Hauwcerton and the other greater kingdoms, confident and complete in who they are.<\/p>\n

\tOnly a few explorers had returned from that icy land, and spoken of what they knew of the Fferedig Ddynion, and so those of Bedwar Barthu Dirio regarded them as little more than a curiosity, a place that was of mild interest and no import, and that could safely be ignored. Perhaps they had been right, once upon a time, but now things were different, and a new man lead the tribes of the Fferedig Ddynion. He named himself Annwyd Arwedda, chosen at his fifteenth birthday, and it suited him well, for he was a creature of both the cold of hate and the fire of anger. He was a man of stature no greater than any other, but a will as cold and pure as crystalline ice, and a resentment built of a heat strange in such a westerly man. He saw the plenty and the wealth and the comfortable living of those to the east, and wished that for himself. A home that he did not need to build every night, a fire, an abundance of food, these he craved far more than any great treasure, and he vowed he would gather these adornments to him.<\/p>\n

\tAnnwyd Arwedda stormed across the packed snow, breath freezing against his face as he threw aside the flap of the tent and stepped inside. The Elders of the Fferedig Ddynion thought to stop him, to make him stay here and live as he always did. That was why they had called him to the meeting tent at this late hour, and why he stormed with rage. And so he threw the tent aside, and saw them formed in a sitting circle, and he glared, refusing to sit and standing with arms crossed, waiting for one of them to speak forth. Bwrw Eira Ddyn, the unspoken leader of this gathering of equals, waited for Annwyd to sit, and gestured for him to do so when he did not. Seeing as nothing would transpire with him still afoot, Annwyd took his place in the circle, arms still folded in defiance.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cIt is good of you to join us, and we are sorry to have called you from your wife, but others amongst us felt we should speak to you this night.\u201d Bwrw Eira Ddyn spoke with a firm voice, age only tingeing the edges. \u201cYou wish to move our people to a warmer land, a land of greater plenty, is that not so?<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI would only take of them those that would go.\u201d Annwyd knew well that if enough of the young went, the old would have to follow, for without the young, the old could not hunt enough food.<\/p>\n

\t\u201cYou speak one, and act two. You would have us all go, down to a valley where the land is warmer and men grow plants in the ground, and you would coerce those who do not by taking their food and their shelter. Is this not so?\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAnnwyd growled. \u201cI do what I think is best.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe had noted that amongst your actions. You proclaim it rather loudly, even without being asked. You have thought through the disruption this would cause, the possibilities of our people being ill-suited to a journey of this kind?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cWe journey from here to the north sky, and we do it well! What could a simple walk have for us that a mountain cannot contain? It is well within our grasp!\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAnd when ice and tundra give way to battered earth and bloody rock, you know enough to hunt, do you? To feast, to forage, to find shelter, amidst a new land? And you will teach those of us who need to know these skills before we depart?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cYes, I do. I have spent years living along the edge of those lands, then pushing deeper. I am not a fool that discards his home for nought but a whim. I already teach some of those who would go. Others will learn from them, and from me.\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cAnd you have the agreement of those of our new land? They will accept our arrival with equanimity and grace, and leave us room and time to adapt?\u201d<\/p>\n

\t\u201cI work the same miracles as you, Bwrw. None! Do you wish more than to toss questions at me like spears at a mark, or do you have no substance hiding beneath that thicket of hair?\u201d<\/p>\n

\tBwrw Eira Ddyn waved at Annwyd, as if he was of no matter. \u201cGo, go then. You are clearly determined. We will debate what shall actually happen after you leave. You will be informed in the morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

\tAnnwyd Arwedda rose a furious man, and stalked to his tent, spine rigid with stung pride. He would not sleep this night, his mind caught in a web of all the things that might be, could be, may be. He would wait at the entrance to his home, and when the soft tread of a messenger arrived, spring to his feet and fling it open, speaking only one word: \u201cWell?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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