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Cider
The
Harvest NeelaOwner:
NrogaraAge: 5 years, 10 months, 3 weeks
Born: June 9th, 2018
Adopted: 1 year, 1 month, 6 days ago
Adopted: March 31st, 2023
Statistics
- Level: 65
- Strength: 162
- Defense: 12
- Speed: 10
- Health: 10
- HP: 10/10
- Intelligence: 103
- Books Read: 96
- Food Eaten: 2
- Job: Label Placer
Farmer Girl
Cider lives on an orchard and hobby farm with her large extended family. Her uncle and some of her cousins run a brewery, her mother and a few of her aunts run a bakery, her father's passion is the apple trees, her brother's passion the plum trees, and her sister's passion running the autumn festival that they put up in the field every fall.
Cider, like her father, loves the apples - though her father is more for the care of the trees and Cider is more for the experimenting with making different varieties of apples, picking up all the fallen ones to ferment, improving the washing system so it's as efficient as possible, making sure her mother and aunts have the very best kinds of apples for pies and crisps and crumbles, finding out her customer's tastes and making sure that they leave with the kind of apples that are going to hit the spot... all things APPLES.
And fall. She loves to help her sister run the festival, skipping around to the different vendors to make sure everyone has what they need, to make sure the guests are finding everything alright, to recommend the apple pies, and making sure no one's still in the corn maze when they close for the night. That can feel a bit spooky at times, but she always grabs a few of her cousins and they go hooting and hollering and crashing around the corners of the maze, screaming when they scare each other and cackling with laughter when they run into each other and fall over each other... and every once in awhile scaring out someone who tried to stay and be clever and hide.
They joke that on the farm, there are two seasons: autumn, and preparing for autumn. The other seasons are for testing recipes, for cleaning machinery, for growing and tending to trees that will bring their fall harvest, and the seemingly endless preparations for the festival. They jokingly call Cider's sister the Saint Nick of Autumn - she gets two weeks off after clean up, and then jumps straight into planning for next year.
Sometimes Cider makes a trip to see one of her more distant cousins, Ntseni, who runs a coffee, tea, and treats shop in Shengui Guo. She always takes time to come for a weekend in the fall to set up a little stall stocked with apple cider and apple cider donuts and apple hand pies and apple beer, advertising the farm and it's festival, and then leaving a good amount of stock for Ntseni to continue to sell throughout the season. Ntseni keeps eclectic company - she lives in a small house with an alarming amount of occupants, including her shape shifting girlfriend, a magical studies student, a cursed experiment, a sentient blob and a maybe sentient electronic gadget, two Telenine brothers, a grumpy Illumis, a vain Zentu, a Chai who evidently came to life from a cookie, and a dragon child stuck in human form. Cider always leaves feeling a bit frazzled and overwhelmed, though she always has a good time.
"It's just so much!" she's remarked to Ntseni, "You need a bigger house!"
"I know," Ntseni sighs, "We need our own bakery and shop space. We need our own APARTMENT."
"But who will look after Zvi?!?" Arlo (her girlfriend), interjected, while squeezing past with a steaming pan full of muffins (Zvi is the dragon).
"That's Rakover's job, technically, sweet heart."
"We can't leave it all to HIM," Arlo retorts with a huff.
"And this," Ntseni says under her breath to Cider with a small sigh, "Is why we haven't moved."
In fact, Cider felt so bad for her overworked cousin one year, that she offered to take a few members of the household back with her to help with the fair. Ntseni was reluctant - she didn't want to burden her cousin and her family - but once Zvi caught wind of the idea there was no stopping it.
The events that followed this offer could fill a whole book. In fact, I will not even attempt to tell it here. Stay tuned for the illustrated picture book series that another cousin has started, based off of the events of that autumn, called, "When You Bring a Dragon to An Apple Farm," followed by "When You Give A Dragon A Cider," with the stunning sequel, "How Many Donuts Can a Dragon Eat?", with more still to come.
Cider lives on an orchard and hobby farm with her large extended family. Her uncle and some of her cousins run a brewery, her mother and a few of her aunts run a bakery, her father's passion is the apple trees, her brother's passion the plum trees, and her sister's passion running the autumn festival that they put up in the field every fall.
Cider, like her father, loves the apples - though her father is more for the care of the trees and Cider is more for the experimenting with making different varieties of apples, picking up all the fallen ones to ferment, improving the washing system so it's as efficient as possible, making sure her mother and aunts have the very best kinds of apples for pies and crisps and crumbles, finding out her customer's tastes and making sure that they leave with the kind of apples that are going to hit the spot... all things APPLES.
And fall. She loves to help her sister run the festival, skipping around to the different vendors to make sure everyone has what they need, to make sure the guests are finding everything alright, to recommend the apple pies, and making sure no one's still in the corn maze when they close for the night. That can feel a bit spooky at times, but she always grabs a few of her cousins and they go hooting and hollering and crashing around the corners of the maze, screaming when they scare each other and cackling with laughter when they run into each other and fall over each other... and every once in awhile scaring out someone who tried to stay and be clever and hide.
They joke that on the farm, there are two seasons: autumn, and preparing for autumn. The other seasons are for testing recipes, for cleaning machinery, for growing and tending to trees that will bring their fall harvest, and the seemingly endless preparations for the festival. They jokingly call Cider's sister the Saint Nick of Autumn - she gets two weeks off after clean up, and then jumps straight into planning for next year.
Sometimes Cider makes a trip to see one of her more distant cousins, Ntseni, who runs a coffee, tea, and treats shop in Shengui Guo. She always takes time to come for a weekend in the fall to set up a little stall stocked with apple cider and apple cider donuts and apple hand pies and apple beer, advertising the farm and it's festival, and then leaving a good amount of stock for Ntseni to continue to sell throughout the season. Ntseni keeps eclectic company - she lives in a small house with an alarming amount of occupants, including her shape shifting girlfriend, a magical studies student, a cursed experiment, a sentient blob and a maybe sentient electronic gadget, two Telenine brothers, a grumpy Illumis, a vain Zentu, a Chai who evidently came to life from a cookie, and a dragon child stuck in human form. Cider always leaves feeling a bit frazzled and overwhelmed, though she always has a good time.
"It's just so much!" she's remarked to Ntseni, "You need a bigger house!"
"I know," Ntseni sighs, "We need our own bakery and shop space. We need our own APARTMENT."
"But who will look after Zvi?!?" Arlo (her girlfriend), interjected, while squeezing past with a steaming pan full of muffins (Zvi is the dragon).
"That's Rakover's job, technically, sweet heart."
"We can't leave it all to HIM," Arlo retorts with a huff.
"And this," Ntseni says under her breath to Cider with a small sigh, "Is why we haven't moved."
In fact, Cider felt so bad for her overworked cousin one year, that she offered to take a few members of the household back with her to help with the fair. Ntseni was reluctant - she didn't want to burden her cousin and her family - but once Zvi caught wind of the idea there was no stopping it.
The events that followed this offer could fill a whole book. In fact, I will not even attempt to tell it here. Stay tuned for the illustrated picture book series that another cousin has started, based off of the events of that autumn, called, "When You Bring a Dragon to An Apple Farm," followed by "When You Give A Dragon A Cider," with the stunning sequel, "How Many Donuts Can a Dragon Eat?", with more still to come.