Effa (Anime)/Story

Effa is relieved when her daughter Myne awakens from her fever, and pleased when she is in good enough health to go to the market. While they pick up food for the family, Effa teaches her how to read the numerals used to price items at the market. Later, Myne becomes faint and Effa leaves her with a local merchant while she finishes the shopping.

When Myne accidentally smashes the fruits Tuuli brings home in an attempt to extract oil, Effa scolds her fiercely for wasting food. However, she is excited to use the homemade shampoo her daughter makes.

Effa spends the winter sewing clothes and helping her daughters with their winter handiwork. When Tuuli is dejected that Myne seems to be better at basket-making than her, Effa offers to teach her weaving to cheer her up, since it will be an important skill when she becomes an apprentice seamstress.

After Effa finishes Tuuli's baptism dress, Myne decides to make a flower hair ornament to complete the outfit. Effa is interested in the lace crochet technique and learns it quickly, then helps her daughter finish the accessory.

Effa is surprised by Myne's method of making tasty vegetable broth, since most people discard the water after using it to cook vegetables. However, she agrees that the result is delicious.

After Myne begins her work with Otto and makes plans to build her strength to be able to walk to the forest with the other children, she comes down with a serious fever. Effa tends to her at home and tells her a folktale about the stars, which happens to be the same story she told her daughter on Urano's first day as Myne. When she finally makes her clay tablets, Myne writes down that story and resolves to make books for the rest of her mother's tales too.

When Myne's attempt to bake her clay tablets in the family oven ends in explosive failure, Effa scolds her daughter for causing trouble.

When Myne wants to make ink for her new wood tablets, she asks Effa to use some ash from their family fireplace. Effa refuses, saying that she needs to use the ash to make soap and other supplies, but she allows Myne to clean the fireplace and gather soot.

Once Myne succeeds in making the soot into a clay crayon, she returns home to find that her wood tablets are gone: Effa had mistaken them for kindling and burned them. Unaware of her daughter's distress, she says how proud she is of Myne for helping out with the family's chores. Lutz later brings some replacement tablets made out of less flammable wood, but Effa again mistakes it for firewood, and is surprised when it begins to snap and explode in the hearth.

Not too long after Myne turns seven and joins the church, Effa becomes pregnant. She expects the child to be born in spring.

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