THE WATCHERS WATCH

Jorgan was to marry Marynth on the seventh cold moon of the cold month. All the festivities were set and the families had made the agreements regarding the marriage, now everyone waited for the day to arrive.

Jorgan was really excited about his wife-to-be and couldn’t wait for the day to arrive so one day, he and Marynth disappeared. Both their families were worried about them for they had been gone for a moon but their worries were stayed when the duo returned in the morning.

Nobody scolded them about their actions for they were reckoned to have known what they were doing being adults. All that they got as discipline was the suspicious looks of the elders.

“You know that you could have waited Jorgan, your marriage is only a few moons away and she would have been all yours. Now everyone in the village knows about what you both did.” Heptac, Jorgan’s best friend spoke to him like a brother indeed. Jorgan did not regret his actions until he realised that everyone had heard about it. He was sorrier for being hasty and putting Marynth in such an awkward position.

Jorgan couldn’t take the suspicious looks and cold-shoulders anymore from his people so immediately after the marriage ceremony, he took his new bride and left the village, the land of their birth. He planned to find a new land and settle there with his new bride and start a new village and he was succeeding.

On the tenth cold moon, they arrived at a beautiful land; though it was covered with snow, Jorgan knew that it was going to be perfect for settlement and farming once the sun takes back the sky. So they settled there and did their best to make the land their home.

By the local forecasting, the sun was supposed to have taken back the sky some 20 moons ago but it didn’t. Everywhere was still covered with snow and the land got colder. Their victuals were almost spent and Marynth was very much with child. This worried Jorgan and even though she didn’t say much about the cold, he could see that she was both scared and cold.