The Winter Masquerade was always a busy time of year in Akvero. Gotris was usually too busy working to participate; masks made working impossible, after all. The pub did not get quite so much business as did shadier establishments, places that rented rooms by the hour to masked revelers delighting in their anonymity. But business did tend to pick up, in part because folk who would never dare enjoy mixed company under other circumstances found themselves with newfound freedom.
She'd thought about it, taking a night off to wear a mask for a few hours. Too much of a control freak, that was the problem. Sometimes it was astonishing that she could even bear to sleep, when it meant not being able to monitor her business.
Gotris was in the kitchen, now, watching the bread bake. She was very particular about the heat of the bricks, when she put the dough in and when she removed the boule. There was a particular crack of the crust, a very particular color, and no one else ever seemed to get it just right.
Or else, not right enough.
She was not a woman for masks anyway, she reasoned. She was herself, from her beard to her boots, and her person was hard-won enough that she had no great desire to rid herself of it. She braided her beard and wore beads in her hair, she favored dresses in colors so bright as to almost be garish. She was no more pleasing to Dwarves than she was to Humans, and even if a mask could remedy that… well. Anyone who would have her only when she was not herself could not be said to have had her at all.
A silly game, anyway.
She dropped the bread, steaming, into a waiting basket, and wiped her hands on her apron with a sigh.
She'd thought about it, taking a night off to wear a mask for a few hours. Too much of a control freak, that was the problem. Sometimes it was astonishing that she could even bear to sleep, when it meant not being able to monitor her business.
Gotris was in the kitchen, now, watching the bread bake. She was very particular about the heat of the bricks, when she put the dough in and when she removed the boule. There was a particular crack of the crust, a very particular color, and no one else ever seemed to get it just right.
Or else, not right enough.
She was not a woman for masks anyway, she reasoned. She was herself, from her beard to her boots, and her person was hard-won enough that she had no great desire to rid herself of it. She braided her beard and wore beads in her hair, she favored dresses in colors so bright as to almost be garish. She was no more pleasing to Dwarves than she was to Humans, and even if a mask could remedy that… well. Anyone who would have her only when she was not herself could not be said to have had her at all.
A silly game, anyway.
She dropped the bread, steaming, into a waiting basket, and wiped her hands on her apron with a sigh.
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