Chapter 5: Sweeter Days

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Sweat had already caked Farmer Yolk's body. The heat in the barn was unbearable and the stench only made it worse. Just as Yolk was about to start working, Nisha had entered. She walked up to Yolk with several items in her hands. A rag and a canteen. "You forgot this," she said. "Thank you," Yolk replied, grabbing the canteen. Nisha invited herself to dab the existing sweat off her wife's brow. As she finished, she gave a quick peck on Yolk's cheek and walked back into the house. Yolk remembers how Nisha recounted her life. Nisha grew up as an orphan rasied by a the owners of an inn. She never rested, afterall there was always work to be done. However, she did what Yolk was never able to do. She ran away. She ran away with the same aspirations that Yolk once had, but soon realized that running away doesn't solve all problems. She never returned to that inn. She kept moving forward. But nows not the time to remember, theres work to be done. Jasper reminds Yolk of this by stamping into the ground.

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