The General's Mother

Hunt 65: Shortbread Tribunal

PeopleBrakkan

LensMadcap

LeadTukkar

RegionPheli

RunLate Run

Hunt 65 · Madcap

Shortbread Tribunal

The General's Mother · Brakkan

An eighty-year-old Brakkan has filed her sons' war crimes behind a doily, and Tukkar has come to the Retirement Village to take the General's Mother in. Her slate is coming loose in the last softening, nobody's standing guard, and every kettle whistle reads the room aloud.

On the boardEighty, spry, lethal. Keeps her sons' war crimes in a ledger and dislikes Tukkar's posture.

WhereThe Retirement Village (street name: the Cosy), Pheli. A quiet village where an eighty-year-old keeps her sons' war crimes in a ledger.

How it feelsKnitting needles, tea, a ticking clock.

House ruleWhen the kettle whistles, whatever was said since the last whistle is written in the ledger and read aloud at the next.

Leads the huntTukkar Omdor

PeopleBrakkan, from Garrad

Abigail's notebookThe Cosy. Taped in later, like the rest of it.

Wednesday. The Cosy. (On the back of the warrant. Taped in later.)

I said I'd stop writing in the book. This is a warrant. Don't look at me like that.

A retirement village. I've now met somebody who can make Tukkar Omdor sit up straight. She sent him a tin at the Bruise, with a note in a hand like a ruler. Tukkar Omdor. Sit up. Three o'clock.

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The people

Brakkan

Armor plates grow in ridges, one for every war survived. Children soften in adolescence and regrow over a year.

Dependable, grim, and bad at saying what they feel.

ALSO ON THE BOARD: General Brisk (12), The Ronin (35), The Warlord of Ring Nine (76)

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