The Kingdom of Celestia Chapter 9
- 1. The Kingdom of Celestia Chapter 9: The Peasantry
- 2. Araceli Nugen had taken up Tai Chi in her rather limited free time. The life of a farmer’s daughter meant a lot of her time was spent in the fields, doing chores around the house, or trying to learn skills she would need in her life as a wife and mother.
- 3. Her older brother Gilbert,had made their father angry when he’d neglected the fields for two days straight and nearly killed all their tomato plants so as punishment he’d been made to look after baby Alexandria.
- 4. Marcus still stopped by to visit his brother and his parents from time to time. They were still trying to get him to settle down with someone. Of course he couldn’t see much use in that.
- 5. He did feel a little sad once his mother Kimmie had passed. In a way, he sort of missed her nagging. At least she didn’t know about his little affair with Agnes.
- 6. Agnes and Marcus’ son James were doing alright though. She’d managed to get a small plot of land from Lord Chen.
- 7. He stopped by at least once a week and checked in on them. She sold the fish she caught to Master Gordon to sell in his shop and used the funds to pay her taxes to Lord Chen.
- 8. Marcus loved what good fun Agnes was. She was always open for a good time.
- 9. Agnes Glenham decided she couldn’t complain too much about her lot in life. She had resigned herself to the fact that there was no way Marcus was going to do the honorable thing by her and James and get married.
- 10. James was a strapping young lad, and she did hope life for him in the kingdom wouldn’t be too harsh. She had thought about approaching Marcus’ father, but Agnes knew they would likely never acknowledge there was any truth in what she claimed.
- 11. No, they would just have to carry on by themselves. Back at the Nugen house, the current head of household Keith and his family continued the rest of the season on as normal.
- 12. The family had just completed work on the third floor of their tower. It was now the gathering room. It had music, the bookshelf, and an easel for the family to enjoy. Everyone, had enjoyed a nice family “ball” to celebrate it’s opening.
- 13. Keith wished his mother had lived long enough to see the newest floor of their home finished. But she’d died suddenly at the age of 72. She was now buried in the Old Graveyard .
- 14. Gilbert kept checking the papers brought by the herald looking for job openings in law. What was his son thinking? It was the middle of the planting season. Even if the job was open, he would not be taking it.
- 15. Milicent couldn’t help in the fields now, since Kimmie was gone. She now had to take over full responsibility of the flower shop until Araceli could join her.
- 16. And Alexandria, was not nearly old enough to go out and help. And his grandfather was too old to work the fields now too, which meant all that work had to be done by Keith and Gilbert. No, his son’s dreams would just not be happening.
- 17. Gilbert begrudgingly was out in the fields the following morning laying down the fertilizer for the eggplant crop. He supposed he was glad there were no law openings in the kingdom right now. If he saw one in the notices, he’d just be that much more disappointed.
- 18. Gilbert and Ruby Gordon were now formally engaged which was wonderful, well wonderful in that he did actually like Ruby unlike the other girl the matchmaker paired him with. Gilbert didn’t much care for her brother though.
- 19. Archie,was oblivious to how annoyed Gilbert seemed to find him to be. His entire focus was on working hard to improve the family business to an acceptable standard.
- 20. He could not expect to marry Anne Sims a merchant’s daughter and have her live in such a tiny home.
- 21. During the weekend, Archie made time to invite the sims over to their home so he could start building a relationship with Peter and Catherine. He wanted to make sure he did this properly, and didn’t miss out on marrying Anne.
- 22. Archie certainly felt the pressure when Catherine stopped by the shop during the market day. The shop was still quite small, hopefully Lady Shahan had at least seen he was good with customers and a hard worker.
- 23. He supposed he did fine after all as Catherine and Peter gave him their blessing to formally ask Anne to marry him.
- 24. With that out of the way, he and his mother Regina had enjoyed their trip to the Field to see the season’s tournament. It had been quite the display to see Lord Hashmi’s son compete and once again take the sword event.
- 25. Ruby decided now that she was betrothed to a farmer it would be best if she started to become more handy. She loved Gilbert dearly, she just hoped the adjustment from living in a flat above a grocer to living on a farm wouldn’t be too much of an adjustment.
- 26. Now that everyone was old enough to help with stocking the fish for their father’s shop, they did so. Plus, winter would be around the corner before they knew it, best to stock the ice chest now while they could.
- 27. Archie couldn’t believe he’d forgotten the fish in the oven! Luckily, the Sims hadn’t seen their daughter’s future home nearly be burned down due to negligence.
- 28. Mary Noble smiled down at her eldest grand- daughter as she played with the local Glenham boy. She loved that Brida was so charitable.
- 29. Things for the Noble family had been going well. Her son Ragnar and his wife Andrea were expecting again even if Andrea had failed to show just yet.
- 30. The youngest of her granddaughters Gytha had just learned to talk. She loved her curly hair.
- 31. Ragnar was in the process of adding an additional story to the family house. They certainly did need the extra space.
- 32. The elder girls Brida and Mildrith had spent their childhood playing together not at all bothered by the open air seeping in due to the construction.
- 33. All too quickly the girls started to shoot up. Gytha was now a child, playing with the family’s new kitten Cymmi. The little fellow had filled the place left when Moody had passed.
- 34. Brida was now a teenager who was in fact quite interested in studying law. Her father was The Law and she hoped Ragnar would consent to letting her study under him.
- 35. There was yet another grand-daughter in the house for her to spoil. This time her son had chosen the name Sigrid.
- 36. Sigrid had sprouted overnight and had quickly befriended her Aunt Lucy. Lucy and Uthred had been able to take a trip from the Moon Islands to visit for the first time in ages which had made Mary delightfully happy.
- 37. Mildrith though had not been able to socialize with her cousin Aelswith, and Aunt and Uncle having been tucked away from view. Illness had taken her and the family did not want it spreading.
- 38. Long after her family left and Mildrith had celebrated another birthday, and her weakness lingered. She was still quite a sickly young woman, and had been for years. Mary for one was quite concerned for the poor girl.
- 39. The family had once again taken on help to assist in caring for Sigrid and with looking after Mildrith.
- 40. With Andrea expecting yet again, a sickly daughter, and Mary getting older by the day the family needed all the help it could get.
- 41. Brida did her best to help out too. She really missed being able to spend time with Mildrith. They’d had so much fun together when they were children.
- 42. It had taken quite a lot of time, but at last the Noble house was allowed to start inviting outsiders into it’s walls again. Ruby and Brida soon became fast friends.
- 43. Brida had tried to use the matchmaker to find a partner, but that Juan boy she’d been paired with had not been well suited for her at all. Why did this old lady think he would make a good match for anyone?
- 44. At the end of the season, Andrea gave birth to her 5th daughter Thyra.
- 45. Not to worry though, Andrea would be having another child soon. She was certainly fertile and took pregnancy well.
- 46. Gytha Noble and her cousin Aelswith had become fast friends during her Aunt and Uncle’s visit to the mainland. The Moon Islands sounded most interesting. She hoped that when she got older she might be allowed to visit.
- 47. Aelswith had enjoyed visiting her cousins and Aunt and Uncle, but it had been so nice to get back to the quiet of the Moon Islands. Celestia’s capital was much too busy.
- 48. Her father’s tavern The Three Lanterns was doing very well. It was the place to stop in for a drink and a rest when traveling to the Moon Islands.
- 49. Aelswith loved her father Uthred especially all the attention she could get from him since their family was nice and small.
- 50. She only had to share her parents with her little brother Beocca, but that was alright.
- 51. One sibling was alright as it wouldn’t mean giving up her bedroom overlooking the ocean at all.
- 52. Beocca was getting big enough to play with now after all, and Gytha had shown her playing with a little sibling could be fun to do.
- 53. Uthred for his part felt his little tavern was doing well, though he’d yet to receive a visit from The Dutchess. But then she did live here so he supposed she didn’t really need to stop by.
- 54. The Hashmis were frequent visitors to the tavern as Heidi loved to travel with her husband. They had happily shared news with Uthred about his youngest brother Odda and his family. There just had not been the time to stop in with them during his own visit to the capital.
- 55. Odda and his wife Carmen were doing well. They were still in service to Lord Sage and his wife Zoe.
- 56. Lord Sage’s sister Journey still lived with her brother and his wife and child. How exactly Lord Sage felt these days given the fact that the lands his brother had given him had turned into a bust was anyone’s guess.
- 57. His niece Isuelt rounded out the many Noble women of this generation. She was about Aelswith and Gytha’s age.
- 58. Her younger brother Erik was also doing well by all accounts.
- 59. Isuelt spent her days in waiting to Lady Cadence Lampright, Sage and Zoe’s only child.
- 60. Compared to some of the other Lampright ladies, Cadence was quite lovely or at least he heard she seemed to be growing into her looks a bit.
- 61. At least his brother’s family appeared to be happy even if they were living out of tents and on an open field at the moment.
- 62. And thus wraps our journey through the peasant class for this rotation. I’ve got quite a few peasant households now. Of course a lot of them are Nobles…I just keep letting them all have kids. LOL Next stop my Middle Class families.