[Seasonal Event] Back To Work

Maea Big dreamers shoot for open skies She practically leaped at the chance to do something. Inactivity had become the enemy, downtime and leisure where throughts were free to roam an evil to be avoided at all costs. Especially when the mood was so ripe for the difficult kind of conversations, where you compared your bruises and took measure of the others cuts... as if talking about the bad stuff somehow would make it hurt any less. "Of course, whatever you need me to do." Maea grinned and waved at the kids, somehow producing an apple for each of them from some hiding place within her clothes. Snatching up a bag of seeds as a fair exchange, she let it rest over a shoulder and followed Emmett out to the field. Keeping pace was not easy; her legs were short and be seemed to share that long legged efficiency in his step that every farmer ever had possessed. But Maea was used to it, and somehow managed to keep up a conversation as she fell into the rhythm of the familiar work. Sow with hands, fill in the rows with feet, one step at a time. "There was a gathering at the Settlement recently. Seems like there will be an attempt on the Spire soon, and people have begun to talk about what might happen if the barrier comes down."