Omen Valley

Tabuk - Apple

Two outriders visited the fields around Saphronicus, seeing if they would meet old friends, friends from the times the Kataii fought together with the warriors of this fortified city against the Var Viverra, an action which delivered many slaves to sell. Now long ago. The wagon outriders did not meet many people but they did manage to shoot a tabuk in the bush. A welcome add-on on the Omen Valley diet.

The apples were delivered by Phil, the chief of the Kataii outpost, a fellow council member.

[11:55]  Aphris walks from her wagon to the water to wash her feet, she has to do herself now, since her slae has been run away after she had ordered him to lay naked at the ice "what a weak whimpies are those Earth males she thinks" On her way to the water, she stumbles almost over a basket with big apples. she takes one and sees a note laying at the bottom of the basket. She smiles and laughs hard when she compares the manliness of the brave Kataii outriders with the soft flesh of the barbarian slaves who sometimes roam Gor.
[11:58]  Aphris takes her quiva and takes one of the big red apples Phil the Potpost Kataii has send to her, she starts removing the peel from the fresh fruit, After the peeling she removes the apple core and throws that back in the basket, together with the removed peel. So she does each apple in the basket. "The cores are a good add on for slave gruel" she think
[11:59]  Aphris she takes a small wooden plate and starts cutting the apple parts in little cubes and puts those apart, she stands up.
[12:03]  Aphris walks to chilla and takes some tabuk meat from it, she walks back to the fire and takes a metal pan in which she melts some bosk fat. When the fat is melted, she lays the thin meat of the tabuk which was shot by the haruspex in the pan and let them bake brown on a high fire in a couple of minutes
[12:05]  Aphris makes the fire lower now and walks to her wagon to return immediate with a bottle of strong Turian apple liquor she once bought in that nearby city, she adds some of the alcoholic fluid at the bosk fat in the pan, rearing it with a wooden spoon, mixing it to a good red sauce around the now brown tabuk meat
[12:07]  Aphris takes the wooden plat with the apple cues and throws them in the pan, she starts rearing the meat, sauce and apple parts till she has a good mixture. She then heats it again for a couple of minutes at high fire before taking the pan of the burning wood.

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[12:18]  Aphris: greetings
[12:18]  Tjay: looks around the encampment seeing a lady busy at work. he dismounts removing his helmet
[12:19]  Tjay: He then smiles, "Tal Lady I am Tjay of the Tuchuks"
[12:20]  Tjay: looks around and ties his Kailla down so he doesnt graze on the womans bosk or her vulos
[12:20]  Aphris looks at the man and hears he is a nnomad too "aah, a Tuchuk, welcome then in the camp of the haruspices. I guess you come for an omen reading. I am Lady Aphris by the way"
[12:22]  Tjay: smiles, "Its good to meet you. The tribes are a bit scattered these days. you don't often run across someone of the wagons these days, An omen? I could use a reading perhaps"
[12:23]  Aphris: "thats this place is for" she makes a wide gesture to the low hills of the sacred Omen Valley of all Wagonpeople "over there is the altar, unfortunate the Tuchuk haruspex is not there, so for a reading you have to return. I as a woman are not allowed to pray to the Open Sky let be, do an omen"
[12:25]  Tjay: nods, "Well i saw your cooking fires and thought i would come over. Are there many of you here? I havent seen anyone in days upon the plains"
[12:29]  Aphris "the men are at the bosks, and guarding the hills against strangers" she takes her pan with the meal she just prepaired and takes a spoon to take some of the tabuk apple mix she made with some Turian liquor "i have some Tabuk here, please take a bite if you are hungry" she offers him the big spoon with the meat.
[12:32]  Tjay: smiles taking the spoon from her "Perhaps just a little, I must go tend to my own small herd" he eats what is on the spoon and then proceeds to inspect it looking for any he might have left behind before handing it back to her.
[12:33]  Tjay: "I must go. it was nice to meet you."
[12:33]  Aphris accepts the spoon back and smiles because she is glad he liked her cooking "well, it was just a bite, i can not send visitors of the wagons back uncared for "i hope your bosks are well"
[12:34]  Tjay: "They are as well as can be"
[12:35]  Aphris: "i am glad for it, the bosks must prosper, they are our life good"
[12:36]  Tjay: "Indeed they are"

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And later Phil came and also eat from the meal

[01:13:59]  Phil: Kneels down looking at the covered pot, slowly lifts the rep cloth covering it and dips his finger in..
[01:15:14]  Phil: placing his finger into his mouth he slowly tastes, sucking off the rich stew..mmmmm
[01:17:57]  Phil: looking around he sees he is alone and wonders if someone willl come and offer some of this delicious stew, knowing it is not his to take, he sighs and replaces the cloth.
[01:19:46]  Phil: looks across at the gates of Turia  and wonders if he should have a quick fire whilst he is here, and burn them down...chuckles to himself, and shakes his head
[01:26:08]  Phil: slowly he stands and surveys his sourroundings, giving a sharp whistle he sees his kailii thunder across the plains towards him, swiftly mounts and rides off into the distance.