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Travels of the Ironweed Clan

These are the stories of the travels of the Gypsy Ironweed Clan. Lead by Wisewoman Thistle.

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Becoming a Wisewoman

Evening 13-12-357 SKR

"Hey Timber!"

"Yeah Yeah Yeah, very funny..." THUNK "Hey! Watch where... geeze seriously Cast, you could have broken my foot!"

"Only because you are too slow old man."

Timber scowled at the younger man as he bent down, "You are just feeling happy that we rescued you. Don't let it go to your head. Once they settle down they will be giving you a talking to about how you were so slow and got caught up for their cleaning gang." Timber looked around at the flurry of activity around the camp. Everyone was breaking down quickly now that Jade and Sapphire had made a decision. "Cast, what do you make of this new Wisewoman? Seems far too young and she doesn't have any clan of her own that I can tell. And she is a Bosha follower. How is that going to work?"

Cast lifted up his end of the trunk, "Old Man, you did not rescue me. I could have walked out of there anytime I wanted to, soon as I heard you were leaving." Timber snorted. "But you didn't come get me, or Wound, or Indigo, it was this new Wisewoman who managed that." Cast continued. "Jade and Sapphire should have been ready, Wisewoman Amethyst was not going to live forever."

They both heaved the chest up onto the back of the wagon and tied it off.

Timber gave a grunt, "That is true but I am not sure about this new one. She was traveling with Gaijin, who knows for how long? Only one or two folk even spoke with this Thistle before they swore the oath. They did not even take the time for a proper ceremony and here we are rushing around to get everything, wait, here let me tie that off for you"

The two of them continued to speculate as they readied the wagons for a quick midnight run to the river and away from the city.

Morning of 16-12-357 SKR

"Alright, so here's what we're gonna do," prompted Thistle after calling Sapphire and Jade over for a meeting. "Y'all can't go through this again. Now I ain't planning to die or anything anytime soon, but we gotta prepare for everything. So since you two are currently the most qualified to be the next wisewoman, I'm gonna make sure if that happens, y'all ain't gonna dillydally."

"Right now, while we get things settled, we're gonna work with your strengths. We'll work on the rest later. So Jade," said Thistle, turning to look at the woman. "Yer gonna keep listening to everyone, okay? And you're gonna help me know what's working and what's not by hearing what they say and telling me."

"And Sapphire," continued Thistle, turning to Sapphire. "Ya want things, and ya know what you want right now? To be safe and on the move again, so use that energy and expand it out to the clan to get us motivated and moving."

"Once we get to Dragon Fen, and ya get a feel of how everyone's doing, we can move to next steps, but someone I really like said I gotta take things one step at a time. So this is step one."

Morning of 16-12-357 SKR

Jacinth finished her painting with a small flourish. "Look Jade", she said. Holding up the new signboard she had just finished. "I kept our blue and green in the new design. Three bars with Blue, Green, Blue going down and I added the blue thistle to the center of the green. Do you think she will like it?"

"Blue and green? Really?" said a boy looking at the sign in disbelief.

"What's wrong with it Alexandrite?" asked Jade, always willing to listen.

"Alex," corrected Alex, scowling. "And it's the colors. The Wisewoman said we're Ironweeds, yeah? And those are purple flowers that flourish in harsh places. And thistles are purple. And nothin' 'bout those colors represent that."

"You have a better idea?"

"Yeah! What about light purple, and harsh yellow, and like, maybe, grey? For the iron, you know? She said she wanted to honor both goddesses. The design should reflect that with the colors, too."