Tuuli (Anime)/Story

When her little sister Myne wakes up from her fever, Tuuli is relieved to see her feeling better. When Myne asks to break her doll to make a hair stick, Tuuli quickly says she'll carve her one instead. She also stops Myne from putting her hair in a bun, warning that only adult women are allowed to wear their hair up.

Like most commoner children, Tuuli goes out foraging in the woods during the day. She brings home some avocado-like fruits and teaches her sister Myne how to extract oil from them. She is surprised and impressed when Myne uses it to make homemade shampoo, and eagerly washes her hair with it as well.

Later, she goes with Myne to deliver their father's lunch to him at the gate. Lutz's older brother Ralph tells her that her hair smells nice, and Tuuli blushes at the praise.

Tuuli patiently helps Myne in her attempt to make papyrus as winter handiwork, although she doesn't understand what she's trying to accomplish. When Myne gives up and starts helping with the family's winter handiwork, Tuuli is slightly hurt that her little sister is better at making baskets than she is. To cheer her up, her mother offers to teach her how to weave, saying that it will be an important skill when she becomes an apprentice seamstress.

Later, Tuuli harvests parues with her father and brings them home. She is surprised when Myne uses them to make paruecakes, and comments that her behavior has changed a lot recently. However, her parents tell her to be happy that her sister is feeling better. At the end of winter, Myne makes a flower hair ornament for her to wear at her baptism next summer, and Tuuli is touched and happy at the thoughtful gift.

When spring arrives, Tuuli is dubious of Myne's plans to make clay tablets in the forest, pointing out that her stamina is too poor to manage the long walk. She later asks Lutz to help keep an eye on her sister when they walk to and from the city gate every day, to which he agrees.

After Fey accidentally destroys Myne's tablets, Tuuli is alarmed by her sister's strangely-colored eyes and hurries to calm her down. She also helps remake the second set of tablets, although she is curious about what they're meant to be. Myne explains that she wrote down one of their mother's bedtime stories.

When summer arrives, Tuuli turns seven years old and celebrates her baptism. She wears the dress her mother made her, as well as Myne's hair ornament, and washes her hair with rinsham. Their neighbors praise how pretty she looks. Although she feels nervous, Myne assures her that as long as she smiles, she'll be the prettiest girl there.

At dinner, Tuuli excitedly tells her family about her baptism. Myne makes her a special soup with star- and heart-shaped vegetables as a gift, and her parents give her a set of work clothes and tools that she will use in her apprenticeship as a seamstress. At first, Tuuli will only work as an apprentice for a few days out of the week, while continuing to forage in the forest on her days off.

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