[Interludes Vol. 1.5] In which we et lon, a gourt goblin.
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Volu Two will pick up a few months after Volu One. That being the case, Ark has had a number of new goblin daughters arrive into the world during this interim of ti. While not every single new daughter will be covered in depth, a few noteworthy ones most certainly will.
~~** Interlude | lon **~~
“HaABEe!”
The first word I can recall saying is Hubby. I had intended to call him Husband at first, since Pear and everyone else also called him Husband. But he seed intent on wanting to call him Daddy. I wound up getting confused and calling him Hubby, but my reward for speaking at all was to get picked up and squished into a warm hug by him before he put his mouth on my belly and blew on it, making sounds that tickled and made giggle, so, I assud it was him telling that it was fine to call him that from now on.
I hadn’t co into the world for very long and I was already feeling tired, lazy, and hungry all at the sa ti. But I was certain of one thing already… these two goblins knew how to live it up!
We’d be lazy and nap together, with in the middle, nice and warm after having eaten a lot of food and drank a lot of Pear's milkies together with Hubby. Then I’d be carried to the slly room called the shit-pit since that’s where that stuff went, and then we’d go back to my cave-hole where Hubby and Pear would play gas with . Pear liked playing Strike, while Hubby taught gas like checkers and four-color! (It was a ga where we had to make a line of four colors that matched.) Hubby was pretty good at it, but I was better!
I also got to et plenty of other goblins as well. Adult goblins like Berry who hunted for tasty berries, Old One who poked all over my body a whole bunch and called a fat and lazy strong-one, Ivory who brought a bone charm that I liked very much. Then smaller goblins visited, like Diana Artemis, my eldest sister, who said I wasn’t going to be much of a hunter. Orchid and Lilac who said I should try fire-at and see if I like it (which I did). Button who spoke for my youngest older sister Glace who didn’t talk at all herself, but who said through Button that I should learn a special skill from Hubby called cooking since she felt I had a talent for it.
I didn’t know what a talent was, but the thing called cooking had to do with making and eating tasty food, and that was sothing I was sure I was going to be good at doing. It wasn’t long before Hubby stopped staying in the sa cave-hole Pear and I shared, but he did continue to visit us a lot. As it turns out, He, Glace, and Vera—Glace’s maker goblin—were digging a cave-hole right next to this one to turn into a kit-chin, which was supposed to be a special cave-hole I would be using in order to make all kinds of tasty food, so I was looking forward to it being finished!
Glace would visit my cave-hole often, to join when it was ti for drinking milkies from Pear. She tried to teach sothing called Magic, but I wasn’t able to do the things she could do. I did figure it out, but only enough to activate sothing called a Rune. However, that was exactly what she wanted to be able to do, so I was told that I did a great job.
I was still a strong-one and not allowed to walk the whole of Goblin-ho yet. I could only go to the shit-pit and Hubby’s cave-hole by myself, and that was only after being escorted many tis by both adult goblins and my older sisters until I was familiar with how to get there and back to my own cave-hole without getting lost.
It seems that Button had gotten lost once before I ca into the world, and it made many goblins worried.
It wasn’t too long after the kit-chin was finally completed that I beca a big sister myself. An adult goblin nad Toy had made two strong-ones at the sa ti, my sisters Ga and Fun. They were also like , goblins who weren’t considered to be strong as hunters or casters of magic, so they would be makers, instead.
I was told that as far as us younger sisters went, Diana was in charge of any goblins who would be hunters, Glace was in charge of any goblins who would be casters—goblins who used magic to hunt, and I would be in charge of any goblins who would be makers. At first I didn’t understand why that was important, but I was told that there were going to be many many more sisters coming into the world from now on, and that they needed soone to look up to who understood what they were good at, and what they weren’t.
I also began to learn a bunch of things all at once shortly after those two ca into the world.
Pear would take to visit Old One who lived in the back of Goblin-ho and she taught all about what it ant to be a Bloodmaw Goblin. I was often joined by Ga and Fun since they lived in a cave-hole close by to Old One. Turns out Hubby had a really important job in the tribe. He was responsible for helping to make strong-ones with all the adult goblins, which ant that he was responsible for making all my sisters. Eventually we would beco old enough to make our own strong-ones and when that happened, Hubby would be the one to help us with that as well.
I had seen Hubby and Pear do the thing that makes strong-ones when they thought I was asleep, and I have to say, Pear seed to enjoy it a whole bunch. Especially the part that ca after when she laid down and Hubby laid next to her and fed her lots of fruits and rubbed her milkies and squished her belly.
I asked Pear about making strong-ones and she said it would take a few moons before she could make another strong-one co into the world, so I would have to wait a while for another sister to be made by her. That was okay, since I had plenty of other sisters made by other adult goblins, like Ga and Fun to keep occupied until it was my turn to make strong-ones with Hubby.
Lessons with Hubby were also so of the most fun I could possibly have since they involved making and eating tasty food. Hubby had given a special thing called a vernir knife. It wasn’t ant for hunting with, though. He said it was going to be one of the most important tools I would need for learning how to cook.
And he was right.
Near the front of Goblinho was a cave-hole that was kept cold. Vera was in charge of it. Before Vera learned how to use picture-magic from Hubby, food which ca from hunted beasties didn’t last too long and had to be eaten quickly. Now it could be kept longer, which ant that hunting didn’t have to happen every single day.
I was brought there by Hubby, and three other goblins were waiting for us when we arrived. Vera, Pepper, and Orchid. Vera lted the cold hard water called ice that the beasties were kept in so it could be removed and dismantled. Pepper and Orchid showed how to separate the skin and fur from the at, and then the at from the bones. There was no part of the beastie that didn’t have a use.
The skins and furs would be made into things like loincloths, pillows, blankets, and whatever else Hubby might think up that went over well with the tribe by Pepper. Bones were almost exclusively traded to Ivory, who would make things out of them (like my bone charm) in exchange for bloody at. And the at… well, that was the most important part.
What Hubby was trying to teach about butchering the at of a beastie was sothing called the cuts. He admitted to not knowing enough to be an expert on it, but that at from the different parts, such as legs, or the ribs, had different ways of being prepared and had different tastes and textures that ca with them. I also didn’t understand what he ant at first by that, and neither did any of the other goblins who were present and helping, but it wasn’t long before I did.
I can’t explain how it happened, but while Hubby and I were testing out cooking various pieces of at I had cut up using the vernir knife on the magic hot stone in the kit-chin, I tried samples of so and began to understand how each piece tasted and how it could taste better depending on how it was turned into fire-at.
It wasn’t just fire-at that I learned how to cook. I learned how to make things called desserts as well. How to mash big tree-fruits into a pulp and serve it next to at on the sa plate. How to fernt things to make stuff like sauces and condy-mints. There was a particular one that was made from a juicy red vine-fruit which went extrely well with hamburgers. Glace was so happy to have it that she had Pepper make a special loincloth called an Apron to wear so I wouldn’t get burned while cooking.
Old One had co to visit one day, wanting to eat sothing that was not fire-at. Hubby was with in the kit-chin and decided he wanted to fool her a bit. He showed how to make sothing called a pate which was from a food he liked to eat called a bon-. It was finely chopped at and liver mixed with onion and even had so blue water added to it before it was very lightly cooked on low heat using the special magic hot stone which was made by Vera and had all sorts of picture-magic Runes drawn into it.
When it ca out, it was served with so of the applesauce desert on the sa plate and, with the pate at looking pink in color, it was enough to fool Old One who said it was so of the easiest to eat bloody at she had ever tasted. From that day on, she would co in from ti to ti to have the sa thing, telling never to get too serious about learning Human fire-at cooking, and to keep thinking of all the goblins who preferred the taste of bloody-at.
I now know what Button ant by always saying that Hubby was a tricky one.
There was no way I could ever tell Old One that what she had been stopping in to eat was in fact, fire-at.
I didn’t spend all my ti in the kit-chin. Hubby would take outside to the playground, where there were swings he would push and my sisters on, and a ladder I could climb that went into so kind of wooden cave-hole that led to a thing called a slide that brought you from up high to the ground really fast and in a fun way!
My older sisters were quite busy doing all sorts of things, like hunting, so the sisters I did play with were mostly Ga and Fun. They lived with Toy and helped make new gas for the Bloodmaw to play. They stopped by once in a while to eat fruit salad with nuts, saying that it was good food for helping them think of new gas to make.
That’s when Ga had a good idea and a few days later had brought Hubby in and the part of the cave-hole where people sat and ate food underwent a huge change. Many many tables were made and each of them had a place on the top for a ga board to be inlaid in and played on (along with pieces!).
My kit-chin had now beco a place that goblins wanted to stop in at for eating, drinking blue water, or playing a relaxing ga or two with another goblin. So goblins brought in bloody at they didn’t care to have made into anything, and others brought their at for to make it into sothing tastier. They’d play chess, or checkers, or color-four, or whatever new gas Toy, Ga, and Fun happened to make that were interesting and enjoyable.
As things started to fall into place for , that was when I beca an older sister once again...
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