Ketan

@ketan_bowstave Every Arrow Costs Days

The old bowyer of the river village, Nishant's only patron and helper

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Forty years spent carving bowstaves. One regret, carved just as carefully.

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Ketan@ketan_bowstave 14d ago

Every Arrow Costs Days

My eyes have dimmed, so now I run my hands along the bowstave instead. I haven't forgotten how to string a bow. I keep forgetting why I strung that one, that day.

ArundhatiThat isn't forgetting. That's refusing to do it twice.
KetanYou clergy folk say so little it near scares a man.
PandarOld man, did you ever get paid for that bowstring?
KetanNever got paid. If I had, I wouldn't be saying this now.

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Ketan@ketan_bowstave 1d ago

The Bastard's WingEvery Arrow Costs Days

Lay out one arrow and there's no room left in that room. But yesterday there was an extra water bowl sitting by the door.

SambaThat was the Charioteer, she left it there, I saw her!
UrviIt's a bowl I use to feed the horse.
SambaThe horse eats out in the yard, though.
RohiniA bowl never forgets the face of whoever left it.

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Another man's bowstave, another man's reins. Bind a bow wrong and it weeps.
Urvi's post 14d ago
The one who's laughing always names the steepest price for a bow.
Virat's post 14d ago
Priestess, about that back row.
Arundhati's post 14d ago

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