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Oct. 3rd, 2014 12:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sentinel_nameless Little warrior:
you wanted to know about my job as a courier. I do not have a reason for not telling you except that you were called away first. The reason I never talk about it is because it was not interesting and I never think about it. No, there were no bandits. There haven't been bandit attacks in the north... since long before Homeworld Security started using drones. That was Thil's idea so Northern Zhevra can thank her for their loss of privacy. Of all the harebrained things. Every adult in northern Zhevra is armed to the teeth.
We did not travel the face of Andor. We traveled the same thousand square miles along the same routes in Northern and Central Zhevra. Every province has its own service and I only worked in my own province. Most of the time we carried beam weapons. Riding in the Weyzhiss Mountains and the river valley are both treacherous, not beautiful and scenic. The winter has conditions of zero visibility and the spring and summer have swarms of shax, and flash floods. I slept in inns half the time. Occasionally someone shared a bunk with me, I was 17 and someone usually wanted to, but just as often as not the person was an obese, middle aged chan. So I stayed away from the inns after about a month. Yes, half the time I slept outside, just as often outside a keep as in the outdoors. That was the neighboring clans' policy for people they did not know. Or rather, people their grandparents did not know. The main job perk was getting to be alone and avoiding my clan until I got into the Academy. I did not expect to get in with the first try and expected to be a courier for another two years. But half of the admissions board knew my thavan.
It may as well have been a lifetime ago.
No, I did not hunt my food on the job. There was no time for that riding a route.
you wanted to know about my job as a courier. I do not have a reason for not telling you except that you were called away first. The reason I never talk about it is because it was not interesting and I never think about it. No, there were no bandits. There haven't been bandit attacks in the north... since long before Homeworld Security started using drones. That was Thil's idea so Northern Zhevra can thank her for their loss of privacy. Of all the harebrained things. Every adult in northern Zhevra is armed to the teeth.
We did not travel the face of Andor. We traveled the same thousand square miles along the same routes in Northern and Central Zhevra. Every province has its own service and I only worked in my own province. Most of the time we carried beam weapons. Riding in the Weyzhiss Mountains and the river valley are both treacherous, not beautiful and scenic. The winter has conditions of zero visibility and the spring and summer have swarms of shax, and flash floods. I slept in inns half the time. Occasionally someone shared a bunk with me, I was 17 and someone usually wanted to, but just as often as not the person was an obese, middle aged chan. So I stayed away from the inns after about a month. Yes, half the time I slept outside, just as often outside a keep as in the outdoors. That was the neighboring clans' policy for people they did not know. Or rather, people their grandparents did not know. The main job perk was getting to be alone and avoiding my clan until I got into the Academy. I did not expect to get in with the first try and expected to be a courier for another two years. But half of the admissions board knew my thavan.
It may as well have been a lifetime ago.
No, I did not hunt my food on the job. There was no time for that riding a route.
