Intermezzo II
They called her Rain.
According to the elven oral histories, she lived in the mountains on the eastern continent, in a village where the bluffs were rocky and the ocean shores were choppy and difficult to sail.
Rain was the daughter of an elder.
In the afternoon when the fishermen came home from the stormy seas, she would stand on the beach with a bond fire to her back and she would sharpen her knives.
Her job was to fillet the fish, and she was so good at it she could debone a tilapia without thinking. No one who ever ate her fish suffered from a bone in the throat, and she was prosperous in her role.
But Rain longed for the sea. For an elven girl who grew up in her village and had never left, the world held untold wonders for her. She wanted to travel.
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