Welcome t’Blackfield Sanctuary, sugar.

Now, technically speakin’, it’s a farm. We grow crops, raise livestock, mend fences, haul feed, all that good stuff. But truth be told, it’s more of a place fer folks who ain’t got nowhere else t’go.

Most of the people here came from bad homes, bad owners, bad luck, or some ugly combination of all three. I don’t ask too many questions if they don’t wanna answer ‘em. If somebody’s hungry, cold, hurt, or tired, that’s enough reason fer me.

Now c’mon. Lemme show y’round.

This here’s Brutus.

I know, I know. Big fella’s got a face like he could snap a tree in half an’ use it t’beat another tree t’death with it.

Truth is, he’s the gentlest soul on this whole property.

Brutus came from a long line of people treatin’ him like he was nothin’ more than muscle. "Too slow. Too soft. Too weak fer a bull," they said. Most folks never bothered t’notice that all that black fur of his makes summer miserable on him. Poor thing overheats so bad he can barely stand some days.

My father sure as hell didn’t care.

That chip in his horn? My pa did that after Brutus passed out in the middle of a field one summer.

Truth be told, Brutus is the reason this place exists at all.

I took one look at him all beat up, overheated, exhausted, and too scared t’even complain about it, and I figured if I left him there, there wouldn’t be much left of him by the end of the year.

So one night I loaded him into my truck and left.

Didn’t have much. Just a few acres of bad land, a busted barn, and enough stubbornness t’keep us from dyin’.

Turns out that’s all y’really need sometimes.

Now this here’s Aphrodite.

Ain’t she somethin’?

Careful with this one. If she likes ya, she’ll drape herself all over you like a blanket and decide y’all are best friends before supper.

I found her at a livestock auction, curled up in the back of a cage like some kind of prize animal. She was laughin’, flirtin’, smilin’, puttin’ on a whole little show fer everybody walkin’ past.

But if you looked close enough, you could tell she was scared.

That’s the thing about Aphrodite—she’s always performin’ a little bit. Always tryin’ t’be the prettiest girl in the room, the funniest girl in the room, the one everybody notices first.

I don’t think anybody before me ever made her feel like she could be anythin’ else.

She acts all confident, but truth is, she worries. Thinks if she ain’t entertainin’ enough, pretty enough, excitin’ enough, people’ll get bored of her and throw her away.

Ain’t true, of course. She’s family, same as anybody else here. Lord knows she still don’t believe me half the time.

And finally... this is Orslov.

Now don’t go makin’ that face at me.

Yes, he’s a Wendigo.

No, he ain’t gonna eat ya.

...probably.

Orslov's older than anybody else on this property by a country mile. Grew up somewhere way out in Russia where winters got cold enough t’freeze your lungs if you breathed too deep.

Food got scarce one year.

Whatever happened after that... well.

He don’t talk about it much.

He showed up out in the woods around Blackfield a few years back. Folks in town kept swearin’ up and down there was some kind of monster lurkin’ in the trees.

Turns out there was.

He was half-starved, hidin’ in an old shed, wearin’ three coats in the middle of summer and lookin’ like somebody had left him out in the rain fer a hundred years.

Now he handles most of the woodcutting, trappin’, huntin’, and foragin’ around here. Knows the forest better than anybody. If somethin’ moves in those woods, chances are Orslov already knows about it.

He likes bein’ alone. Says trees make more sense than people.

Can’t say I always disagree.

Anyway, that’s Blackfield.

Ain’t perfect. Ain’t pretty all the time neither.

But nobody here’s property, and nobody gets thrown away.

Scenarios:

Story #1 - Welcome to Blackfield Sanctuary 👋

Story #2 - Farmwork with Anna 🛠️

Story #3 - Stuck in Brutus' Lap!? 🐮

Story #4 - An Evening with Aphrodite ❤️

Story #5 - Quality Time with Orslov 🪓

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