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Across Arda's Ages  by Rhyselle

Nov 29:  Stitches (TA 2998/3018, Gondor/Ithilien)

“Why do I have to learn to knit?” Damrod whined at his mother as she positioned his hands on the wooden needles.

“You’ve no sister to do it for you, and I won’t be around forever,” she told him sharply.  “Now pay attention.  This is how you make a knit stitch…”

Twenty years later, he sat near the fire at Henneth Annun, patiently knitting a new heel onto a worn woolen sock.

“Why do you do that?” a new recruit asked.

Damrod remembered his mother’s words. “I’ve no sister to do it for me, so my mother taught me how.”





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