SimmedUp Magazine - Issue 14 - October 21

Heading back to the cottage, she realises
that she still has some of the fruit cake in
the fridge that the welcome wagon
brought with them. “That will do for
breakfast,” she thinks.
Her next task is to check on the seedlings
that she planted yesterday. She is happy
to see that they all seem to have
germinated. She inspects them further.
“Wait, are those carrots ready to
harvest?” She exclaims to no one. Sure
Her first stop, when she arrives, is to see if
the traditions she remembers from her
childhood are still in place, searching
beside Sophie The Snail, she is pleasantly
surprised to find some chrysanthemums in
the little hiding place. Checking her pockets
to see what she can leave in return, she
finds a Taro root and hides it back under
the small stone.
No trip here would be complete without the
requisite selfie with Sophie herself!
She is sure that she remembers
her being a lot bigger, oh well,
she supposes she is a lot bigger
than the last time she visited
this sacred place.
Talking of sacred places, she
takes a wander over to the ruins
of the Isle of Volpe. She
remembers picking wild
mushrooms here with her
Grandfather and also a delicious
berry called a “chocoberry”;
enough, she bends down and harvests a
bunch of tiny little carrots.
“It’s not much,” she says to herself, “but
it’s a start.” Remembering trips to the
village as a child, she wonders if the
market stalls still buy produce.
Enjoying her own company after the
social whirlwind that was yesterday, she
heads out to the bramble patch that she
used to explore. If she remembers
correctly, there were some interesting
plants that grow here that she has never
found anywhere else.
she was never able to find any of these
ingredients in San Myshuno.
“ They must be some kind of village
secret,” she muses to herself.
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