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Show WORTHING FARM/19 you, here's my inn, do you like it? Borrowed the money in Hux and the workmen in Linkeree and in a year I'll be a very rich man!" Big Peter asked no questions and so Elijah said nothing as they walked to the inn, Big Peter pulling the cart with one arm and conversing as if it were no burden. "Trade goes downriver from Hux to Linkeree, and overland from Linkeree to Hux. Here we get them both. The road passes by here, and up that trail there I've builded a landing on the river where even the biggest riverboat can pull in and moor for the night. There are twenty and three rooms and a huge kitchen and a common room that cries out for ale and drinkers and loud songs, and more room to store food than you've ever seen. It's gone up so quick I swear that Jason and all the Ice People are pulling with us. By Jason, Elijah, it's good to have you here! This drought has wiped out many a farmer in the forest, and I promise you that both Hux and Linkeree are buying food from the Heaven Plain, there's not a kernel of corn or a bushel of wheat in the whole Forest of Waters. But we broke the drought yesterday, didn't we by damn, near flooded away everything that wasn't already nailed into the inn, but there we are, the rain put out the fire when the lightning struck and we didn't even lose a whole day's work!" They arrived at the front of the inn where two men were nailing in place a large sign with the words "Worthing Inn" painted on it in black. Elijah stopped cold, looking at the sign. "What does it say?" he said, for the first part of the sign was the same as what was printed on the stone at the southwest corner of Worthing Farm. |
