Granny Varinka
Granny Varinka · AR-060
Role: The one who opens his home for lost people
Homeland: The forest moves shadows off the map.
Weapon: Flying mortars, wooden pestles and brooms
Power: Know the shortcut between old roots and mixing medicine from accumulated knowledge.
Limitations: Shortcuts have seasons Medicine does not cure every disease and everything must be paid for with real labor.
Year joined: 20
A house that doesn't ask where the child comes from.
Granny Varinka doesn't remember when she started being told stories about threatening children. Her house moves through old roots with the seasons. Flying mortars help carry things, wooden pestles pound medicine, and brooms erase tracks you don't want predators to follow. When people only saw a strange house and a fierce-faced old woman. Then add the rest to a story that can be easily told.
She had been so angry that she had deliberately acted to live up to the rumors. Ask difficult questions to those asking for help. Call for high wages and expel those who answer incorrectly One night two children arrive after escaping from a labor march. Grandma asked riddles as usual. The youngest child couldn't answer because he was shaking from hunger. And the eldest offered to work for the younger for the rest of his life.
That answer made Grandma see that the door to her house was similar to the door the child had escaped from. She boiled rice before asking about anything else. Let them both sleep. Then explain that staying and helping is not giving your life to anyone. Grandma still charges wages for things and medicine. Because everything requires resources. But clearly separate emergency needs from commerce.
The Shadow House gradually became a shelter for the lost. Grandma didn't become a sweet-talker. She also complained about unwashed cups and soiled shoes. But start by asking the name and what the visitor wants. Instead, use riddles to decide which people are worthy of help.
Her knowledge of medicine was broad but limited. There was a time when the medicine didn't help the child's condition. Grandma agreed to be referred to a clinic instead of continuing the experiment because she was afraid of losing her reputation. Children disappear from other people's preferred methods. She recorded the results in the textbook without scratching out the name of the wrong medicine she had chosen. Hundreds of years of knowledge are only useful if you are willing to learn from the modern day.
In the twentieth year, fugitive hunters invaded the forest during the course of the roots changing. The house cannot move through every space at will. Grandma had to choose whether to keep a room full of rare herbs. or increase space for people to escape She loaded the necessary items into mortars and opened the storage room to travelers. Ready to say that the route may be congested and everyone must help according to their ability.
Kohari guides the changing light Amphara root check And Khachin reinforces the folk when the weight increases. Granny Varinka doesn't claim to know the forest well, so she doesn't have to listen to anyone. The house slowly moved away from the enclave as the people inside took turns holding on to the beams. They survived because the space that once held the secrets of one person opened up to the knowledge of many lives.
Grandma joins the Arun Alliance as a caretaker of a mobile shelter and medicine warehouse. The home will stop accepting people when capacity is exceeded and arrange for alternative accommodation. Don't sell the image that one goal can handle the whole world. She made an inventory of labor and supplies for everyone to check. As for the two formerly arrived children, they chose to return to school in the community without any life debt tied to them.
The night before traveling with a partner. Grandma set up a long table in front of the house. Members take turns bringing food from their area. Some people need to use a large bowl. Some people need to keep their distance. Some people speak through the board. She walked around complaining to everyone to move until they had all the space. Then he placed the last bowl for himself. When the child asked what he had to answer so he could enter the house. Grandma lightly tapped the pestle on the ground. “Just answer, have you eaten tonight?” The house that had once moved away from the people began to walk towards them. And that table became the first image of the world that the Sixty Fighters wanted to preserve.