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The Cottage of the Valley


Reece Nolan
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Soft and sullen, the lavender sky housed a brilliant orange sunset bathing alone for all to see across the land of Arcas. Cattails swayed slightly at the nearby river edge, only their faded dull color distinguishing them from the tall grass entangled with their stalks. Dragonflies whizzed around just as stars began to penetrate the sky's haze, the dawn of twilight summoning a cacophony of cricket chirps for miles and miles in the expanse of the wildlands. There, in this serene scene, sat an elderly couple on a shaggy picnic cloth woven from yarn. The two dwarves as aged as some of the pricks of dim light that flood a night sky. Her fair yet wrinkly hand rested on his thigh as his arm pulled her to his shoulder, their body heat splitting the cool crisp air of the approaching night. Under the watchful gaze of hundreds of stars that peered into the valley they resided in, she finally broke the neverending silence.

 

"I don' fink ah evah wannu leave t'is spot." Her weak and ancient voice whispered.

 

"Aye, nei ef ah 'ave yu by me side." He replied, his gaze refusing to move off of the sky as more and more stars began to loom over them with the fading sunlight.

 

"Cheeseh as alwehs are ye?" She chuckled lightly.

 

"Nae 'ave ah choic', wus alwehs ah pain en me arse tu woo ye any'ow." He said after a slightly exaggerated sigh.

 

In his eyes he beheld thousands of stars, and thinking to himself he just couldn't fathom how, after everything the two of them had been through, they got a perfect ending like this.

 

"Taht twinkl' en yur eye, et's loike ah child yeh? Are yu lost en all o' dem pretteh stars?" She teased, trying to keep their conversation going.

 

"All o' tese twinklin' gems..." He paused, his eye catching a shooting star streaking across the sky. "...Ahn non' o' tem ar moar beautifol t'an yu." He said finally turning his big blue eyes towards her.

 

For a moment her heart began to skip, her mind in bliss and her body swaddled in emotional roses before she retorted.

 

"Ye dahft ***** yu! Ahm as old ahs ah fock'n brick ahn yur still tryen so 'ard to charm meh!" She laughed, letting out a small snort as she was hardly able to contain herself. 

 

"Aye, et reminds meh ov w'en we wer young. Ets somfin t'at can nevehr gro' old." He said pulling close to his warm chest in a heartfelt embrace.

 

Together they watched the moon fly high through the sky at a snails pace, their hearts adrift like the celestial bodies. Behind the pair stood a lone weathered cottage with the fireplace smoking out the chimney. In the window stood a young and stout beardling with scrappy clothes, his ambition swelling as he washed the dishes and let his mind wander. 

 

He wondered to himself how far his family name could go if they went into business selling their jelly, wines, and cheeses. Maybe if he could find himself a wife he could spread the family name to the far reaches of the land, he could even achieve clan status. But even that was high hopes for the likes of him. Stepping outside for some air, he heard his parents conversing distantly under the grand abyss that was filled with starlight.

 

"Yu two 'avin fun out t'ere?" His gruff voice echoed through the landscape as he approached.

 

"Aye! Get yur arse o'er here, make t'is ah famileh moment!" She replied enthusiastically.

 

The beardling knelt beside his mother and father in the grass behind them and looked up into the chasm of space.

 

"Nae even ta sight o' Dungrimm guiden yu tu teh end es gud as t'is. Et's loike sparks flyen off o' Yemekar's anvil o' stars." He remarked in slight awe of it all.

 

"Nei ah bett'r place fur teh Stonevine famileh tu set up busines, right?" Replied the Father.

 

"Wait yu mean were gonnah-" The beardling was cut short by the expression his father wore.

 

A look of determination that already gave him the answer he was looking for. The family dream would finally be realised. The Stonevine Vinyard, nestled in the Cottage of the Valley.

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