Elrich Saga Yellow Springs Book Two

Chapter 45 Moon Drunk

Chapter45 Moon Drunk

Thebuilding he brought me into was a store, but it was nothing butbottles on all the shelves. Beer? I picked up a bottle and read thelabel. No, wine. It was a little bottle of wine. Some of the bottleswere glass and some of them looked like ceramic. I slowly followedCrue reading labels as I went.

Thiswas mostly wine. Some of the labels I could read and some of themmade no sense. I paused a second and studied a bottle with crudesquare looking blocks for writing.

*LanguageLearned – Dwarvish~

Iblinked, then suddenly the blocky letters made sense. Bezel Wine.What the hell was Bezel?

*Bezel-A hard stone fruit that can not be eaten by humans unless the fruitis fermented or pickled for at least a year. Once consumable thefruit has the constancy and texture of an orange, but has a uniquetaste. It is considered a staple of Dwarven home cooking. ~

"Alrightlet's go," Crue held up a canvas bag and I heard bottles clinkingtogether.

"Whatare those for?" I asked, following him out of the store. He lookedat me as if I'd grown a second head.

"Fortonight of course."

"What'sso special about tonight?"

Cruepointed up. I looked up. "Full Moon," he said.

Ilooked at him again. He looked back at me. "Illia," he said as ifthat explained it all.

"Whatdoes that have to do with anything?"

Cruepaused then looked at me. "Sometimes I forget. You wouldn'tnecessarily know about this sort of common knowledge."

Heshifted his weight and looked up at the moon.

"Duringfull moons Zyanthorpes can get something we call Moon Drunk. It'sactually a celebratory time for all followers of Zyanthis. They gettogether and have a small party with family and friends. It lastsmost of the night. This time of the month is particularly hard onIllia though."

"Becauseshe's not with her family?"

"Um,no. It's because of her race, gender, but mostly because of herspecial skill..." He trailed of and shuffled his feet.

Illia'sspecial skills were Fertility and Beloved of the Forest. I didn't seehow either of those could be connected with the moon.

Cruesighed. "I'm only telling you this because Illia said she was tooembarrassed to tell you herself."

Ifelt like I should have picked up on something but I just wasn'tgetting it.

"Sorry,I don't understand."

Crueshifted again.

"Duringthe full moon, fully mature rabbit Zyanthorpes have this urge tomate. They can't get back to normal until they've completed the actso to speak. The rabbits aren't the only race like that, but when youtalk about being Moon Drunk then the rabbits are the first race thatcomes to mind.

"It'sparticularly bad for Illia because of her fertility skill and hergender. She gets this overwhelming desire to mate and make children.Most of the time she can ignore this hormonal influx but during thefull moon it gets particularly bad."

"Wait,"I held up a hand. So Illia because of her skill fertility got superhorny during the full moon? My brain finally caught up to what Cruewas saying and I felt myself blush.