The Game of Shepherd and Dawse Read Free Page A

urgency to get the piece finished, they didn’t have sell it to try and get by and they didn’t have any deadlines to meet, they also lived a lot longer than the peoples of today so there was never any rush which meant that everything was made with astounding precision and intricate detail.
     
    On the one side of the river were all of the houses with winding stone paths that had been laid down over many centuries. Each house was unique in design and reflected the character of its owner, as did the clothes each of them wore and the ways in which they styled their hair. The people of Shepherd Wood wore clothes that expressed themselves as a character which meant that everyone always looked and felt amazing. Their hair styles matched the same trend. Some people had very elaborate hair styles in which bee’s wax would be used to hold into place and some had very simple styles. Some people chose to have no style at all, which was a style in itself.
     
    There was no such thing as 'fashion' in Shepherd Wood. Fashion was a concept created centuries later by those deceptively wanting to have a steady and constant sale of their products - regardless if the clothing actually suited the person or not. If something was considered 'fashionable' then you were deemed to look 'good' and that’s how fashion worked in later years.
     
    The structure of society as a whole wasn’t that dissimilar to what we now know, except for all of the little differences. There was no legal system because no one had any desire to hurt another person. As a result, there was no penal system either. Everything ran smoothly and people treated each other with care and respect.
     
    There was a kind of farming that took place but not one we would recognise today. The forest and surrounding areas were plentiful in food, though most varieties they relied upon have now been long extinct due to over consumption in later years. Around Shepherd Wood, wherever a certain type of plant naturally grew, it would be encouraged to flourish there using techniques that didn’t alter its natural surroundings too greatly. If a key food type had been found, residents would carefully cut down just a few of the nearby trees, allowing the key food type the space it needed to flourish and spread. The trees they cut down would be used for fuel, building and making various other items, and new trees would be planted elsewhere to replace the ones that had been cut down.
     
    Farming this way ensured that nature grew at its very best because nature grew where nature wanted to grow, meaning yields were always more than enough to feed everyone. There were no ploughed fields full of crops nor huts cramped with animals in awful conditions, as the people never outgrew their environment and always remained in harmony with nature.
     
    Animals roamed freely in Shepherd Wood and every so often one would give itself up to the community, as that was what the animal had chosen as its purpose. It wouldn’t be uncommon for a hunter to have an animal in its sights and choose not to kill it. This would be because the animal had communicated to the hunter that it was not ready to go yet. Other times an animal would freely offer itself to the community, if it had gone lame for example. The residents had the most humane way possible of putting an animal in this condition to a peaceful rest. The animal would be given a heavy natural sedative, then quickly and painlessly be starved of oxygen so it would, in effect, die in its sleep.
     
    When these occasions happened there would be great celebration for that animal and nothing would ever be wasted, as that would have been disrespectful to the animal. There was much reverence for the animal kingdom in Shepherd Wood, as there was a lot of communication with the animal spirit world, as well as with the living animals. After all, the people who were alive there were animals themselves just as we are today – just a different type of animal, that’s