Prelude To Innovations in Motion

The passing moons were filled with the activities of the stable, its owner, and employee. The next three moons passed with heavy rains and an heightened flow of water trough the river Red. The number of those renting horses dropped, yet, some still came to to the small village to borrow a horse. On several occasions, Drel gave his employer a question of the tales that his dead wife told, to which Drel received the answer that she was senile. The questions waxed, but then waned as the summer months approach and with them, the summer festivals. The summer festivals, a tradition in the town of Plaüde, arrived in the town every 12 moons, and are events that many from the Northern Country came to. As the evenings became shorter and began later, the stable encountered more business. A quarter into the summer festival period, the employer's back became sore with ache, and retired from delivering the horses to the town. Drel was informed that he would have to take the next horse to town. Drel received a plethora of feelings on this as he had never been to town, spent his entire life up till now in the confines of the village. Drel would leave after two moon risings. He was given instructions of how to conduct his trip to the town of Plaüde. The horse renter told him to go strait to the town, do not stray from the path given before him. There were two paths of different speed. The first, the longest, followed the river Red to the town, in a scenic masterpiece of beauty. the other, of shorter distance time of travel, went deep in the forest that bordered the north of Plaüde and the south of Drel's home village. This trail would take him past the lair of the Nijos, a band of forest dwelling peoples whose only purpose, it seemed, were to steal from those who dared to travel through it. Beyond the instruction of the travel was that Drel take along with him the horse renter's business bag to hold the papers for the horse he is to bring to the town and bring back from the town, which was already in use. The bag contained Drel's identification of employment and a notice of rent for the horse. Drel added to this bag a roll of jerked meat that was given to him by a local man when his father was buried. The local man used to own a farm on the outsides of the town, but as the situation, economically and physically, of the town spiraled further downwards, his crops and life stock began to die, and he sold it to the Agricultural Sector of the Royal Republic of Governance. Since then, the land has been a holding ground for the diseased criminals, as the land quality was so poor by then. The announcement of the use of this land nearly 7 revolutions ago marked the beginning of the increased speed of the spiral discussed above.