A high stone rockery wall composed of large, smooth, rounded rocks and stones at the base, transitioning to smaller stones as one goes up the wall with ivy snaking as long to be stones. Above the stones are thick evergreen ground cover and terraced heather topped by a hedge.
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The outer wall of the keep.
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I asked if she was all right and she gestured toward the overturned chair and tray table by her bed. “I’ve made a mess,” she moaned.
She was out-of-sorts, but otherwise seemed fine. “It’s okay,” I offered, “I’m here. Let’s get you tidied up and see what Cook has for us.”
Relief.
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Drafts and chills are a regular companion in the keep, even in summer. Waking this morning was more difficult with the cold, wet weather. As I made my way to the lady’s chamber I heard her calling softly for me, “I need your help.” I found her curled on the floor in her nightshirt.
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I sidled up, making sure she heard my steps, grabbed her hand, and looked with her out at the snowfall on the grounds.
“I can still do wonders,” she beamed. “The old gray mare IS still what she used to be!”
“Yes, she is.”
We leaned against each other, listening to the stillness.
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She paused, touching her forehead as if to coax her thoughts. I watched her gather herself, determined to conjure success. When she finished, a long silence seemed to ignore her efforts. Her shoulders sank. As she sighed an icy breath, snowflakes began to fall outside. She smiled.
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I was fretting with Cook, after we broke fast this morning, about the wet, gloomy weather and how it wasn’t conducive for proper holiday celebrations. Lady Navarroh must have been listening in for I later found her standing at an open window attempting a weather incantation.
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The roads are a bit mushy along the detour we have to take as they near completion of First Bridge. The cold, wet weather has made sure of that. I marvel at the skills of the stonemasons as they build the new span. Strength and elegance is already apparent as its arches take shape.
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The area just east of the keep is heavily forested, right up to the base of the Clifffalls. To the west is a hilly meadow that ends at the Mahran Bluffs, where the land abruptly drops about a hundred feet to the seacoast. Across the water are the Saler Isles, and beyond, the ocean.
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Though now associated by the locals with the Keep, her ladyship was once known by another name, Eldora The Fey, which was short for her proper given maiden name, Lady Eldora Chelsea Marcollette Rospoon della Fey. The name, Navarroh, was added when she married the Lord of the Keep.💍
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The Lady of the Keep was once a disciplined enchantress. Her creative skills were sought after by aspiring mages and local dabblers. She’d once held classes showing how to give final touches to well-crafted incantations. Her wandering mind of late has introduced an element of chaos.
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Belts were drawn when the Lord of the Keep died almost three years ago. A few of the hired hands were let go but we managed to keep the main staff, some from families that have been part of the keep for generations. I thank the Old and New for my brother’s family who stood with us.
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Traveling west directly to the village by cart took an hour using First Bridge and Second Bridge. Losing First Bridge added another two hours each way as we now have to head east and south through Wood Glen and across Bowman's Bridge to reach the village. Thankfully, a scenic trip.
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Last year a storm wreaked havoc on the lands surrounding the keep. One of the casualties was First Bridge, an old foot bridge just wide enough to allow a small horse-drawn cart to pass. It was mostly timber with stone footings and was washed away. A new stone bridge is in the works.
It feels an age since last I wrote my thoughts. In what had seemed chaotic times, the past few years were comparative wisps of a growing, ever present shadow rising from the depths. The sun shines presently, but clouds gather across heaven, and its lands below. The journey continues… #DnDFitness
Two men in construction clothes and hard hats in the foreground discuss and gesture toward the tall bridge span being demolished behind them in a deep forested ravine. Caption from The Everett Herald: “City of Everett Engineer Tom Hood, left, and city of Everett Engineer and Project Manager Dan Enrico, right, talk about the Edgewater Bridge demolition on Friday, May 9, 2025 in Everett, Washington. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)”
An early screenshot of the Forest of Kahruvel at night during a lightning storm. The stone ruins of an ancient aqueduct span a deep ravine between two steep ridges. The stones in the middle of the aqueduct have collapsed to the forest floor.
A more recent screenshot of the Forest of Kahruvel in late afternoon showing the location of the old stone aqueduct ruins now gone and replaced by scaffolding that mimics the original stone structure. Below the scaffolding is a bright red metal shipping container.
The bridge down the road is being replaced.
I referred to it as “First Bridge” in my old Twitter #DnDFitness journey. Uncanny how it looks like my #Kahruvel aqueduct now, which started as stone ruins & was rebuilt as scaffolding.
First life imitating #SecondLife.
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Ugh. Why is working out so HARD and eating unhealthy food so EASY??
This #onepiece music is the only thing getting me through.
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Skeleton benchpressing
It's a good day to fight that artist sedentary lifestyle.
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A brittle, cold continues its grip on the countryside as I awake to day. Winter seems to have strengthened its grip and winds, blowing through the hills, have frozen nature in her place. Oddly silent but for that steady breeze, rising and falling. Now, off to wake the Lady of the Keep.
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Hitched the horses to the cart and took the Lady of the Keep on a short trip to village market today. Cold as a frost giant’s bumble. We felt like a pair of white dragons spewing icy breath into the air. Was good to get out & about, & to know we’ll be returning to a cozy, warm hearth. #DnDFitness
It seems like an age since I first encountered that wise, old, gnarled ent while on a #DnDFitness hike. The weather is foreboding, very “Whitestone of Exandria,” and ever since the lord of the keep’s passing I’ve had to stay close to home. I miss the long treks and long to stretch my legs again.
Wait we have hashtags now!!
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I got the string on my new bow this evening and took it for a test run with my new rubber arrows.
It's so comfortable!!
I really enjoyed shooting it, and look forward to building a couple of more durable targets!
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