Inside the inn he saw the lights wake up in the kitchen, he knew that he had been the first so he hummed contently while carrying the water to the stables and a burn later to the kitchen. One of the girls accepted the two buckets of water with a smile as always. So while resuming his humming he returned to the stables and gave all the horses water and food. It would be almost a mark before the others would come so he had all the time to take care of the animals.
He softly sang a morning song while he rubbed the first horse dry before he would saddle it. It could be warm, but it was a good morning for him. The Goddess smiled as usual. He glanced at the moon. Today when he was free he would visit the sea again. Too many people around, sometimes Gwayne hated the crowded place. Maybe he should also visit the new temple of the Mother, the last month a lot of things had changed.
No more nagging about paperwork by city guards and other officials, what was good. More and more adhiel started asking him for songs about the Goddess, the Mother and her children what was nice.. and some people almost like it was the other side of a coin started to tell him off and that he should not proclaim heresy in this city of Domincus.. and that was clearly bad. Not that it stopped him, he had fought people who had attacked him in the name of Dominicus before.. and according to his own view of the world he did no harm.... not everybody agreed about that view probably.
The sun had risen clearly above the sky when the man finished his job, for the next few hours the stable boys would not need his help. So he decided to make his way towards the new temple. It did not take him long to find the place, after all it was explained to him by Nuorin how to get there... and he had watched the building several times now not daring to approach and enter it. Somehow he had a feeling that if he would enter the building he would be nearer to Eivlys as the Goddess would be there, maybe he could even find some fairy.. He missed talking to the Mothers children.. he missed Eivlys.. and Amber.. It was the eyes and smiles of these women that finally made him walk towards the temple and enter it.
Cleverly hidden near the One Monastery rests the Temple of the Mother. It's entrance is actually close to the graveyard, for those that know what to look for. Once through the near-hidden door behind the grapevines, there is a winding staircase leading down to the Temple in construction: the Mother's Womb. Within the temple people are working on a large workshop area, stonework puzzled together in cobbles which bear the standard markings and inscriptions related to Mother in all of Her forms. A basin, filled once each tide by fresh water from the Mer, adorns the north wall and three small ante-rooms curve southward from West to East, housing some of the staff, texts, and items respectively.
With no preist in charge at the time, Mother’s Temple is run by an interim Priesess named Vighxunna and three assistants, two males named Ilharn and Dalharuk, and a female named Orthaegul. The primary purpose of the assistants is to keep Mother’s songs in the air, which they do by rotating once per tide, taking care of speaking to followers, taking care of themselves, or tending to other Temple affairs in the ‘off time’.
As a result, the Temple is always full of music, even when it is not full of people, and Mother’s presence can be felt once one crosses the threshold from the street to the interior.
Technically one could say the One Monastery is now built on the roots of Mother earth, yet none of the faithful priests of Dominicus is aware of this, or it would have to be through the faint songs that sometimes break through into their dreams.
To find the temple of the Mother, one would have to be either extremely lucky or know which people to talk to.
Gwayne wanted to enter the temple without being noticed, he had found it easily following the strange directions he was given. But it seemed that he would have found it without those as well, it was very strange that the place attracted him as a mistress a lover.. or maybe a sweet smelling flower that lured insects to their demise. Gwayne had a eerie feeling that he heard a female voice laugh on the breeze filled with love and something else.. maybe a promise of death. It was then that he noticed a priestess watching him, her eyes resting on the painted adhiel like she had been waiting for his arrival.. and maybe that was true.
This silver-haired adhiel priestess was the interim Priestess for the Temple of Mother in Roque d'Ancourt. A warm, spry sense of humor, good Adhiel genes, and age have given her many aspects of the goddess that she serves by topping a 'youthful' maiden's face with the hair and eyes of the crone while wrapping the entire package in an aura of innocence and - at times - fun. She is almost always about, except when sleeping, and rarely leave. She also known to bake a mean array of T'aquar specialities, as that was where she was raised, and so visitors to the Temple of Mother often find their bellies as full as their hearts and minds before this matronly Priestess bids them farewell.
Gwayne swallowed something while he approached the woman.. “I am Gwayne..†he said.. expecting her to answer him with the phrase “I know you are...â€
