I did much this day...
I taught vanessa and silence how to drive a wagon, then ensured that the bosk and wagon of my Mistress were still in fine condition for travel.
I then joined my Mistress in the Surgical Wagon. Together, we worked upon a badly frostbitten young man. While Mistress removed three blackened fingers, I removed the same amount of toes on his right foot. Afterward, the honor of full healing slave tags were bestowed upon me, a status symbolized by the emerald bracelet I now wear!
I hardly had time to enjoy the achievement, for migration was upon us. I directed the dispersal of the injured from the porch of the Surgical Wagon, seeing that the men were returned to their personal wagons to weather the migration as best they could with the assistance of their family or slaves.
Then it was that I bid a ... difficult farewell... to Deucalion (NPC). Once, as an unScarred youth, he had helped to drive Krul's wagons and tend his bosk and kaiila. He led an Or when he received his Scars for a Season of fine service to our home. Rather than bear the amputation of both his legs, he chose to meet his fate upon the back of a dying kaiila, riding point for our migration wagons. I literally saw Deucalion grow to become a man -- and now the Sky above welcomes him before me? I suppose it is not for me to understand.
I also drove my Mistress's wagon this night, when jale was too weary to continue. I rescued from the snow a slave who had fallen from the platform of her Master's wagon without his knowing. I again switched places with jale when the column stopped for a moment to rest, repair, and regroup...
It will be a long migration.