The descendent of the old Bard and the Grandam Wisewoman now being grown to a man, his father taught him a generation more of story in the clan's genealogy.
"…And Mirren was wracked with these ills and troubles and worries of the Clootie Well. First she had all manner of aches and pains, and as time progressed she was affronted by a severe outbreak of swelling and pustules on her nose, and fretted about her herd of goats when she owned no such thing, and was affeared her wife – aye, wife – had another man. And when Niall and Hector set trap and her carrotseed deception was found, the Chief did banish her and she verra soon died.
"And the Chief assembled the clan in the courtyard and proclaimed that he waived any period of mourning because his son Ruaridh and his bairns needed a Wisewoman's healing the whole days and nights of their lives and without delay, lest any ills from the Clootie Well had been left behind on their own persons, and he proclaimed that Hilde the Wisewoman had graciously accepted his urgent request to join with his son Ruaridh forthwith, and could the Bard have the arrangements made by the morn.
"And a great cheer went up in the courtyard, and this despite the clan not even knowing of the carrotseeds until many years thereafter. And Hilde did bear Ruaridh a daughter within the twelvemonth, and sons thereafter.
"And Hector did wed Cecily the verra night of the Remedy for Wives Too Tall, soon after he had completed his Pushing In of the Spend, for he had been sweet on her for some years and careless of time's passing, and her rousing of him at this remedy made him even sweeter on her. And Cecily did rise to great worth as protector of the king and queen alongside Hector, for many were affeared of her abilities.
"And when the lintel over a door broke and fell in Hector and Cecily's bedchamber, the queen ordered all the lintels of all their doors made higher to accommodate Hector's great height, for Her Majesty worried about him banging his head like that.
"And Oona the Grandam Wisewoman spoke wisely of the help from the bees in the Remedy for Wives Too Tall, for she said bees were the bringers of order wherever chaos reigned, and that the drinking of honeymead and the humming of the bees' song did work wonders.
"And when the chieftain's son Lachlann was born just nine moons after the Remedy, into his tiny fist was placed an eagle's feather, and when his brother Ruaridh was born straight after, the chieftain Niall was fair speechless, and both babes laid side by side in the Heir's Cradle to fill it abundantly well.
"And since the Tradition of the Remedy for Wives Too Tall was enacted, the Chamber of the Green Man has helped many to have the bairns they longed for, although the clansfolk are only allowed in two at a time under the Wisewomen's guidance and preparations of chamber and persons, and the height of that husband and his wife never measured."
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THE CHIEFTAIN NEEDS AN HEIR
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