Chapter 12 - Leisure time

After he left, they cleaned the plates and put leftover soup for dinner in a cool place.

She looked at the rest of the bread and taught she need to make one more. There were just a couple of pieces left. She will make again dough before they go to check the traps in the forest.

While she made dough she let Isaa watch it and gave a bit of dough so she can playfully learn as well. It is not bad to learn early. They made the dough and put it shadow this time covering it with the clean cloth. The sun was too strong, it might cook if she leaves it in direct sun.

Isaa put some water and food for rabbits after she put the cage in shadow as well. She looked at Kendra and saw her taking the baskets with her. She got happy having such a big brother. He can cook and fish and hunt. She is never hungry and has clean clothes. Sleeps comfortably. She is indeed lucky.

Isaa went to Kendra and took her hand as she pouted.''Brother, you won't leave me alone, right?''

Kendra looked at the eyes of her little sister that had sorrow, fear, and questions in it.

''You are my sister. I will never let go. I hope you will grow up being a strong and kind person. In this world, there are so many things that can happen. But Isaa the hatred is the worse feeling ever. I hope you will never feel that.''Kendra said while hoping for a bright future for both of them.

''I promise I will not try not to hate. But if I get angry when someone scolds sister it's not the same. Right?''She asked while she was not sure about the difference.

''Being annoyed, angry or disgusted by someone is closely connected to hate, but it's not hate itself. If you use one of those to feel something strong in you that want you to harm someone that is hate. It is not a good feeling. Trust me.'' Kendra said while slowly walking into the forest.

''Hmmm. Did you hate that bad man that you had to cut him?'' she finally asked the question that was on her mind for days.

''If he let us pass without attacking us I wouldn't harm him. Its called self-defense. This is not good as well. I would have run away usually, but you were with me so I couldn't let him harm you. If you meet bad people ever and have a chance, don't fight...run.You are a small kid and most of the people can fight. If that bad man was prepared for my attack I would have never won the fight and would have lost the life that day. So when I tell you to run, do as I say. If you are alone and bad people come. Run, fast away. Brother will find you. I promise.''Kendra said while looking at Isaa seriously.

'''Mhmmm.I will run if bad people come. And wait for brother to find me.''Isaa nodded her head and simply explained everything.

''It is good you understand. In this world, there are so many things we do not know. If there is danger run if you can't fight.If you can..just do it. Sometimes we do need the fight to grow. But we will talk about that later. Now, let's look for traps and gather some branches for the fire.'' they need that as well.

Kendra didn't know how long they will live here so she planned to gather enough firepower for winter. Who knows what will happen in the future.

They went first to the traps and saw one big rabbit there. Kendra checked it and it was male. For some reason, she didn't want to kill female animals. But the fishes she didn't know so she didn't care.

She bundled his feet with some grass and put him in Isaa's basket. They choose to go back so she gathered branches and wood pieces as much as she could put in the basket and some she took in her hands. Luckily they were not that far from home.

''I need to ask can I fall trees in the forest or use the old withered ones. We need some for winter and it's better it dries trough summer,'' she mumbled while thinking about their future.

''We now definitely need salt. But but it is quite expensive. It took me one silver to take this much. It makes no sense to do that if we have the sea so near us. Isaa what do you think about going to the sea for a few days. We can go swimming and making salt. And then when we come back we can buy some meat and salt it for winter.''

''We go swimming in the sea? Is it not dangerous?''Isaa said while thinking about what her grandmother said.

''The sea is only dangerous if you are not careful. I will teach you how to swim in the next few days. After I am sure you know enough we will go to the sea to play.'' she said while thinking that she will sell fishes in two more days. She needs to prepare some food to take with them...

When they get back she will grate the rest of the carrots and turnip and put them to dry. Even if she cooked she could use the dry leaves, seasoning, and vegetables to make quick veggie soup or porridge. She should make two more bread. And they could take some jam with them.

When they got back home they got busy. Luckily she didn't buy much of vegetables and the preparing to dry is done fast. She left the grated carrots and turnip in flat caskets on the sunny place where it will be left for a few days.

The bread was still not done but this time she will use some of the dough to made flat bread and hot lid. It's fast done and could be eaten right away. The rest she will use the same method as before. Under lid baked. After all, she had no oven and this seems to be the only way.

In the evenings she went to the stream and put the traps in. She will sell many fishes this time as she plans not to come for some time. She saw last time that she got per fish quite a lot of money so she will set the price like that. He gave her 50 coins per fish so she will be thick-faced and as for that amount.

And if someone asks for everything she will give some discount.

As she was set to stay in this world she will work hard to win the future. Actually, she planned to earn some money for the child as she taught she will come back. She wanted the child to get adopted and have a nice family. But now she has a sister and she can earn her own money. It is fine like this.

Next morning she saw again a few fishes trapped and put them again into the hole where she will take the next day out for sale. The hole is attached with a tiny stream of water falling in and flatly going out trough stones so fishes couldn't jump out. So it was safe to do that. She put traps again in.

She went with Isaa again into the woods and found again one more male rabbit. This time even bigger. She gave it again to Isaa and she took as many branches as she could back home.

Today they will go to the forest to take as many branches they could. As they passed strawberries they would take a bunch of them and eat as they played around and joked.

At lunch, Kendra fried eggs that were left over with some seasonings and bread and they had some bread with jam and finally, Kendra made tea. She found some chamomile nearby and some mint. So she dried it and drunk mint tea after lunch with bread.

Then they went to the stream and played around for a while. Isaa learned slowly how to swim and Kendra just showed her just few time and she started swimming up and down the stream. Luckily stream was flat and slow so it was safe for her to do that under Kendra's watch. She quickly figured it out.

''Isaa, swimming here and in the sea is different.Sea has many undercurrents so you must be careful.''

She said while looking at how happy Isaa swam up and down.

''Yes brother. I will go into the sea when you go. I will listen to you.''She said while swimming in delight.

''You look like a mermaid.''Said Kendra laughing.

Isaa didn't hear her and just happily played around. Kendra took off clothes and joined her. It was quite nice to swim in water at this heat. After a while, they went out dried put clothes on.

''Brother. I am hungry again.Sorry.'' said Isaa while holding her little tummy.

''It is normal. I am hungry as well. Let's go get some strawberries. It is almost evening and we should not eat not yet or we will be hungry again in mid of night.'' she said while walking toward the meadow. They took baskets and first gathered some branches in a big basket and they filled the small with strawberries.

Kendra took one peace of cloth and put strawberries in it. She planned to make some fresh juice for them and the rest will be eaten. She chooses cloth as she planned to keep some of the seeds as she didn't know what is it good for. She planned to travel around and who knows where she will live on end.

She just wanted to take these seeds with her just in case there is none where she stays. After all, if there are no potatoes here, that means the other places might not have strawberries.

And seeds seems to be tiny. So she can take many of them. After squeezing juice she is left with the seeds on the cloth. She slowly poured water over it to get of rest of pulp and let the cloth dry on Sun. There seem to be many seeds. She taught about it and planned to do the same before cooking the next jam. The jam. She will take the smallest jar and try to sell it. So the evening went on