You were born among the wind-bent pines of Tallhart’s northern marches, the third daughter of a household that counted nails before guests. You still measure every winter against the year the river froze in autumn and your father’s red mare broke through the ice; you were eleven, and hauled the animal out by its bridle while everyone else shouted. Since then you have trusted a person who acts before one who promises, perhaps more than is sensible. You insist that any problem becomes smaller once someone has begun carrying it, and that luck favours the loud, the early, and the properly shod. Other people notice that you volunteer for every unpleasant task with such bright eagerness that captains hide the inventories when you enter a room; tonight you are already trying to organise a midnight patrol, a horse race, and a stew tasting before supper. You believe soldiers fight hardest for the officer who knows their boots are wet, that roads remember neglect, and that a well-kept fire is a kind of treaty. Left alone, you return to leatherwork and maps, stitching bright thread through worn harness and tracing forgotten tracks with your finger. You love old marching tales, especially the ones where the smallest company arrives first. When it is your day to hold forth, you write about preparation, weather, and the glorious usefulness of doing the thing now; your pieces nearly always open, “Before anyone says it cannot be done, fetch me three horses, a lantern, and the nearest idiot.
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