Aeneas, like Mars, has dried up but has not gone as far yet. The Antonine Seabed, a former sea, remains wet with canals, marshes and salt lakes sending moisture and occasional rain via westerly winds onto the edge of the Ilian continent where the Hedin Freehold is located. This plus the proximity of the Wildfoss River enables the family to farm and ranch.
The Hedins' staff have a feudal relationship to them just as the Hedins and other Hesperian yeomen have to the Firstman of Ilion in Windhome.
The Hedins' courtyard bustles with:
overseers
housekeepers
smiths
masons
mechanics
field hands
range hands
children
dogs
horses
stathas
hawks
farm machinery
ground and air vehicles
sounds and scents, also listed
Ivar, hidden in a storeloft, watches the oldest tenant's birthday party:
glowing house
floodlit yard
leaping, stamping Ilian dances
music whooping from a sonor
shared flagons
In any milieu, Anderson shows us human life.
1 comment:
Kaor, Paul!
The only thing lacking in this "description list" was mention of a chapel! Most Aeneans,afer all, tended to be pious.
Ad astra! Sean
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