PRIVATE - Patsy's diary - MUM DO NOT READ - IN FACT EVERYBODY DO NOT READ - WHY, BOTHER MOST OF YOU IDIOTS CAN'T READ - Ha, Ha
I am only the bloody one!
I just don't believe it. After all my hard work and studying and looking after that dodgy, smelly, old priest it all came down to that one thread test.
I was dreading it, to be honest. Aldith, the priest, is so ugly and old but I have been making it happen without fingers for years.
A bit of pressure from a blanket and just squeezing inside. I can spin such a vivid dream in my mind. So first old Gretchen checked I was still a maiden. She looked shocked when she saw I was, the cheeky cow.
She obviously had no idea that though I like boys I hate babies. Plus I don't think anyone can match my day dreams. The ones I have about my boy Ox can really get to me!
Ox just arrived here this spring. He will be made into his tribe's warrior and is simply gorgeous. I love his big, blue eyes, staring at me, especially as I kneel in front of him. I am meant to be making bread but all I really want to do is make him hard and my smile always seems to do that. Not bad for all the lack of practice I have endured for the goddess, the murdering bitch, praise her, thank her and keep her away... Why the fuck am I still saying that? I will be part of her soon.
Anyway the thread test was nowhere near as bad as those buggers have always made out. True they made all four of us maids strip in front of everyone. But I have never been shy and I loved how Ox almost had to sit down to hide his excitement. That sow Niamah almost caught me smiling but it was worth it!
Now normally a naked walk on a cold night is about as juicy as a sundried crow carcass, but they had lined the path with dried birch bark that burnt warm, fast and bright to light our way. It was so beautiful! The dancing fire on our bodies, the low singing and gentle drums of the furthest family and my Ox's eating eyes flickering from the trees.
I had waited sixteen winters and seventeen summers for this. Two of my friends back home have already died in childbirth. My own birth mother was dead by sixteen. I am so bored of the winters of "getting grown". Growing towards the secrets, they call it.
Never the secrets I want to fecking learn.
Always how to record our story, how to keep the bitch mother happy, how to look after and also avoid the mother and crone, how to make sure the dead stay dead, how to fix a broken bone, how to rebirth the spring, how to change the weather, though nobody's good at that round here, as far as I can tell.