05.Jul.18, 07:38 AM
They’d arrived at Telgar late the previous evening, very late. Dessa had pushed the poor nag pulling the cart, rather than set up camp like she would have if she’d continued to eb by herself. She didn’t want Onari out and upsetting her injury for any longer than was absolutely required and if that meant pushing the poor horse to get them to Telgar late into the evening, than Dessa was willing to do that. So, she had.
The Healer she’d fetched along the way hadn’t been particularly happy about the ten-pm interruption, but Dessa had been stubborn and made arrangements for the man to stop by her home within the hour, while she continued the last leg of the journey with her companions. Leaving them in the cart for the moment, Dessa had settled the horse in his temporary stall (he’d be returned to the man she’d borrowed him from later) and then went to rouse the mother and daughter, fi they weren’t already awake.
In the end, she’d gotten them into her home and settled in the spare room just before the Healer had shown up; he had tended to Onari and Dessa had promised they would take his instructions very seriously and she would contact him if there were any other issues. After a last check to make sure her visitors were comfortable, Dessa had left them to find sleep, promising to show them around her home during the daylight hours and that they should sleep as late as their bodies desired.
Dessa, for her part, had risen at her usual time of far-too-early (somewhere around 7am) and made her way quietly but cheerfully down to her store, putting on a kettle for tea or klah as she passed the stove. Leaving it for the moment, Dessa poked around her shop for a few hours, returning to make her cup of tea, and fix herself a small plate of breakfast, before returning to her store. She didn’t have assistants, so the store was in need of some small-time housekeeping after being left alone for so many days while Dessa was visiting her daughter, so Dessa had opted not to open the store that morning.
Hearing the sound of footsteps on the stairs leading down from her home, Dessa turned, smiling warmly. “Good morning, dear.”
The Healer she’d fetched along the way hadn’t been particularly happy about the ten-pm interruption, but Dessa had been stubborn and made arrangements for the man to stop by her home within the hour, while she continued the last leg of the journey with her companions. Leaving them in the cart for the moment, Dessa had settled the horse in his temporary stall (he’d be returned to the man she’d borrowed him from later) and then went to rouse the mother and daughter, fi they weren’t already awake.
In the end, she’d gotten them into her home and settled in the spare room just before the Healer had shown up; he had tended to Onari and Dessa had promised they would take his instructions very seriously and she would contact him if there were any other issues. After a last check to make sure her visitors were comfortable, Dessa had left them to find sleep, promising to show them around her home during the daylight hours and that they should sleep as late as their bodies desired.
Dessa, for her part, had risen at her usual time of far-too-early (somewhere around 7am) and made her way quietly but cheerfully down to her store, putting on a kettle for tea or klah as she passed the stove. Leaving it for the moment, Dessa poked around her shop for a few hours, returning to make her cup of tea, and fix herself a small plate of breakfast, before returning to her store. She didn’t have assistants, so the store was in need of some small-time housekeeping after being left alone for so many days while Dessa was visiting her daughter, so Dessa had opted not to open the store that morning.
Hearing the sound of footsteps on the stairs leading down from her home, Dessa turned, smiling warmly. “Good morning, dear.”