Further Studies
Shortly after the new year began, a huge blizzard hit Muniche and the surrounding countryside, snowing in the entire community for two weeks as people from all walks of life worked to remove almost ninety centimeters of snow. I helped the vassals clear paths on the count’s estate on the first day, using my element to hold back the cold. I also worked to improve my efforts at blood control, imagining its life-giving flow pulsing through each artery in my fingers while I struggled with the hefty loads of snow. Count von Meldorf requested that I remain inside afterward, for he opined that such work should not be done by noblewomen.
I complied grudgingly and joined Freia in the kitchen during the following days, boiling cider and baking bread for the workers, who took regular
