Post by Athena Fire-in-Snow on May 3, 2010 1:37:25 GMT -8
Maya looked at her - her! - new home with eagerness. Small, yes, but with room to expand. Oh, if she'd just wanted a place to den it would have been more than sufficient, but Maya wanted it for something more, a place for all of her crafts, a place where she could train an apprentice or two, give basic lessons to students, make armor and weapons and whatever else was needed by the Caern members.
The living room would be a general work area, as would the kitchen, depending on the needs of the project; she could use the bedroom as a storage space for all the supplies and raw materials. The one-car garage could be used to store various tools, vats, other specialty equipment of a less perishable nature when they weren't in use.
She'd need to get plans, see if the foundation would permit the digging of a basement. She'd like an actual small mother-in-law apartment underground for a guest or proper apprentice, if she found one. The attic was small, but could be converted into a snug sleep-den for herself, warmed by the rising heat from the house in the winter.
As to the large garden... Well, first she'd put a large brick patio in back, and a brick shed on that, for the forge and metal-shop. No way she was putting open flame in anything she hadn't built to resist fire from the ground up! There were planting beds along the front and sides of the house with plenty of space to grow the herbs her rituals called for, so the rest of the back yard that wasn't converted into the forge could be planted as a proper berry patch. Not blackberries, for there were so many of those everywhere, but raspberries, salmonberries, huckleberries, strawberries...everything that she could get to grow!
And then, of course, the tunnel. Maya's eyes sparkled with glee. She and Ravenna had talked about it; 'Venna's new house was next door to hers, so it would be possible to link their two houses by a tunnel, dry and snug, allowing them to visit each other without having to go outside in all kinds of weather. The fact that it could also be used for an emergency evacuation on either end didn't hurt either. It would be a pain to build unless she got help -- bears really weren't the best diggers, and it would be slow going, but totally worth it.
Everything was aligning now. Her part in the battle was over and it was time to den, time to look to learning and teaching and, yes, breeding. Her time as Uzmati was almost at an end, and Maya breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at her new house, and her future.
The living room would be a general work area, as would the kitchen, depending on the needs of the project; she could use the bedroom as a storage space for all the supplies and raw materials. The one-car garage could be used to store various tools, vats, other specialty equipment of a less perishable nature when they weren't in use.
She'd need to get plans, see if the foundation would permit the digging of a basement. She'd like an actual small mother-in-law apartment underground for a guest or proper apprentice, if she found one. The attic was small, but could be converted into a snug sleep-den for herself, warmed by the rising heat from the house in the winter.
As to the large garden... Well, first she'd put a large brick patio in back, and a brick shed on that, for the forge and metal-shop. No way she was putting open flame in anything she hadn't built to resist fire from the ground up! There were planting beds along the front and sides of the house with plenty of space to grow the herbs her rituals called for, so the rest of the back yard that wasn't converted into the forge could be planted as a proper berry patch. Not blackberries, for there were so many of those everywhere, but raspberries, salmonberries, huckleberries, strawberries...everything that she could get to grow!
And then, of course, the tunnel. Maya's eyes sparkled with glee. She and Ravenna had talked about it; 'Venna's new house was next door to hers, so it would be possible to link their two houses by a tunnel, dry and snug, allowing them to visit each other without having to go outside in all kinds of weather. The fact that it could also be used for an emergency evacuation on either end didn't hurt either. It would be a pain to build unless she got help -- bears really weren't the best diggers, and it would be slow going, but totally worth it.
Everything was aligning now. Her part in the battle was over and it was time to den, time to look to learning and teaching and, yes, breeding. Her time as Uzmati was almost at an end, and Maya breathed a sigh of relief as she looked at her new house, and her future.