Prompt Challenge 12: Wise Women, Gravity

[senmut]

Welcome to the twelfth prompt for Half a Moon 2020!

Today's prompts are:

Wise Women

and

Gravity

No prompts are required, they're just here to provide the challenge if you need one. You can post your works as a response to this post or separately to the community, just remember to tag your works appropriately.

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Earth's Children, Iza & Ayla

[senmut]

Iza slowly pulled the twig through Ayla's hair, making it smooth. She was thinking, something that could be hard, but she was a medicine woman. Her line continued unbroken back to the dawn of the Clan, gathering knowledge, learning how best to use plants as both food and medicine.

Ayla was Other. She had no memories to guide her, but like those first medicine women, Ayla could take the common points of plants and make the leap toward new use for them.

Iza would see her made medicine woman, for the status.

Nothing less could protect her daughter from Broud.

The End - OZ - Shirley Bellinger

[cmk418]

She walked with a purpose, nearly hurrying through the corridors as she prayed the words to the twenty-third psalm.

The Lord is my Shepherd, I shall not want…

Her footsteps barely made a sound on the tile floor, drowned out by the sound of her own voice and that of the priest sent to accompany her on this journey.

He restoreth my soul…

She felt the sun streaming in through the windows. How remarkable to feel it now, flooding her with warmth.

And I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for years to come.

It wasn’t until the gate swung open and the gallows was before her, waiting for her sacrifice, that she understood the gravity of the situation.

She was going to die.