Brambonius

It's that time of the year again...

Robert took the baggage and walked into the door, followed by Jenny and Shirley. Everything seemed to happen in slow-motion. Whatever he had expected to see, this wasn’t it. He saw a green village full of buildings of all kinds. Everything was well cared for, and well-structured. Jenny turned to Shirley. ‘Welcome in Seventh City Ghost Town, Shirley. As you probably cut ties with your father by coming to live here, we’ll call you by your selfname here, which would be Shirley Shirleys.’ ‘Oh no. I don’t want that name anymore. Can I choose another first name too?’ ‘If you want. Breaking with your past is a painful thing, and you can take the time to think of what you want to do and want to be.’ ‘Can I change my hair too? I never want to be blond again. Ever! I don’t want to be anything that is attractive to Dave, or to any man at all. Let all their eyeballs and testicles and all the rest rot in the hells of all possible religions!’ ‘Hair can be cut and coloured however you want. Your life will be completely yours here. You’ll only have to do some work to contribute to the community,’ Jenny said. ‘I know I’ll have to work. But it’ll be my own work, not free slavery work for a lazy man who owns me.’ ‘No man will ever be able to claim you for Marriage here. You’re free now. I would normally say completely free from men now…’ She looked at Robert. ‘…but we’re less strict on them nowadays, and it’s possible that one day there even will be mixed couples here. As Lady Martha says, even men are human and maybe one in hundred will be a good person, and we can’t reasonably exclude a good person. But be assured, any unsafe man that comes close to this place will be put to sleep, and left in the wilderness just wearing a green robe with nothing else on him, and possibly even marked, as a warning for all of us to not trust him again.’ ‘You’re scaring Robert, Lady Jenny. It took a lot of courage for him already to do this today. He shouldn’t be punished for that.’

The Sakura season is upon us!