i don't know what i'm doing and you can tell, but hey, day one!

When Peire is five years old, his mother dies of a fever. He has no brothers or sisters and his father spends his days working in the fields for the lord who owns the land and the village, and even though he is old enough to go to the tiny church school for a couple of hours a day, and even though he is also old enough to have started to make friends among other boys in the village, his mother is pretty much his entire world, and he is distraught when she dies. All through her fever, he stayed with a neighbor family to avoid the mist of sickness that clung to her. His father doesn't know what to do with him, so Peire spends his days with neighbors and his nights in his father's small, very quiet house.

( People die all the time in this world. )

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