Story for the Day: Four Winds
Marridon's Bannantyne region is broken up into smaller municipalities, all of them with their own unique landscape and history. The Anaruyd Family have lived in the municipality of Four Winds for many generations, a small notch in Bannantyne Valley, famed for its green pastures and extensive national gardens : Summer came particularly late to Four Winds this year, the Spring making itself a guest that had never run out its welcome. The long meadow, usually brushed over with wildflowers at this time of the year, withheld its floral secrets, lying dormant under the threat of the sun, the cornflower glancing demurely up at the clouds behind the tufts of high grass, the goosefoot gostering the timbre poppies, the blanket flower unfurling and hiding the flax and aster under its blushing plume. The regales of the clove and cleavers, the rue and rye, the lawnlace and bluebutton were only just c...