"I slept alright, but I am rather stiff and I don't feel all that rested. I think we should bring a mattress next time too." Jimmy says sheepishly
The delivery boy pushes his cart whistling along the road to the Manor grounds. As he sees Niamh he stops right before her and asks "Good morning. Same as always?"
"Good morning to you too. Yes, the same as always please." Niamh answers while standing up. She takes the two silver and hands it to the delivery boy taking the apple pie and the ten buns, which she stores in her backpack. "Thank you and have a good day." Niamh tells him and walks into the kitchen where she puts the pie and the buns and the tidbits she packed into her backback yesterday onto the table.
Then she shouts not really creative
Gwenhwyfar carefully gets up and stretches also. Sitting down again besides Jimmy and in front of Destinée she concentrates on the eyes of the cat and shortly after is somewhere far away in her mind.
For a whole hour.
"Am I a rooster that I have to rise with the sun?" Abomentolor complains from within his room.
"I'm not sure. But if you don't move your behind into the kitchen now you'll have to see where you get your breakfast from!" Niamh replies.
Tauriell appears in her door with a wide smile. "I smell apple pie!"
Niamh replies with a grin and waves her hand "Help yourself please."
Tauriell moves to the table, draws her sword and hacks the pie into four pieces. She takes one and starts to eat. "Mmmh! Delicious" she says with the mouth full of pie.
"See if I care. The dog isn't here so no one is eating everything up." Abomentolor replies pulling his blanket over his head.
"I'm back soon." Niamh tells Tauriell and disappears into Abomentolor's room. She takes out her violin with a mischievous smile and starts playing horrible noices.
"I'd kill you but that would be a too easy death. Therefore I'll kill your instrument!" Abomentolor threatens.
Jimmy spends the hour watching Gwen. His mind doesn't really wonder but nor is it focused.
As Gwenhwyfar is done and comes back from her trance she takes up her cat and cuddles it. She then turns to Jimmy.
"'I slept alright' doesn't seem to be true. You look like you're run over by a horse wagon. I can't let you walk around like this."
She speaks a few strange words and makes a gesture and as she touches Jimmy his fatigue vanishes.
"Shall we go back to the others? I could use something to eat."
"If you kill her be aware that YOU have to provide me then with delicious apple pie every morning." Tauriell informs Abomentolor.
"The same for the instruments." Niamh adds.
"Grmbl." Abomentolor replies as he gets up and walks into the main room and takes a seat at the table. As he reaches out for a piece of pie he grumbles "The pieces are cut too large."
Tauriell takes her sword from the bench and hacks the piece Abomentolor wants to take in two. "Is that better my dear grumpypants?"
Abomentolor pulls back his hand in terror. "Is everyone crazy this morning?"
Niamh grins and takes the other piece of the now only half one. "You understand him wrong. He only wants to make sure that for Gwenhwyfar and Jimmy is enough left."
"That's the reason. You're all bat s$%~ crazy and when Gwenhwyfar is not here to reign that in this becomes the crazy house." Abomentolor states.
"No, Mrs. Heidmarch is against transformation in her house."
Tauriell chuckles at Niamh's comment. Then she pokes Abomentolor with her sword. "Be careful with what you say. You never know how this 'bat s%%@ crazy' elf reacts to it."
Abomentolor jumps up. "I'm having my breakfast outside and wait there for the sane part of the team to return." He walks outside with his piece of pie and sits down at the wall of the house.
"Much better, thank you dear. Breakfast sounds good." Jimmy says with a smile standing up to help Gwen, and then giving her a large hug before they leave
Gwenhwyfar embraces Jimmy and gives him a big kiss. Together they walk back to Heidmarch Manor and the guest house.
As they approach they find Abomentolor in front of the house.
"Good morning. Why are you eating outside the house? Are you enjoying the sun?"
"Ah! Thank the gods you're back. Crazy and the gang make it unbearable inside." Abomentolor replies.
"We'll check if it's safe to go in." Gwenhwyfar states and walks into the house.
"Good morning Gwenhwyfar. The same as always." Niamh greets her and points to the food on the table.
"Thank you. Just what I need." Gwenhwyfar replies and takes a large chunk of apple pie. "How did you manage to scare Abomentolor away?" she asks before she bites into the pie.
Jimmy not so subtly steals a bite of Gwen's pie. "Thank you for breakfast Niamh."
Niamh giggles a bit. "He's just a bit grumpy this morning. With keeping these circumstances in mind I can even forgive him that he wanted to kill my instrument. You're welcome."
"I swear I only hacked the pie into pieces. Abomentolor is still in one piece." Tauriell explains. "I poked him with my sword, but didn't really hurt him. And he definitely deserved it!"
"Do we go back to the dungeon through the sewers again?" Tauriell asks.
"I vote for sewers!" Abomentolor shouts from the outside. "Everything is better than going over water."
"Even going under water? If the sewer would be destroyed we would stand under water." Niamh demurs. "I would prefer to take the boat. There we could see the sun a while longer..." Niamh searches for arumentes.
"I will fetch some ham and cheese from the kitchen and make some lunch bags from that buns and then we could start."
Gwenhwyfar then prepares two sandwiches for every person with butter, cheese or ham and some slices of tomatoes and cucumber. "Please pack your stuff that we can leave soon. I have to pack my darling into his armor so I guess I need the most time."
She smiles at Jimmy and offers her hand to take him to their room.
Jimmy takes her hand and follows dilligently
"Want to eat the rest of my pie while I put your armor on you?" Gwenhwyfar asks holding out the pie.
Gwenhwyfar accurately puts the armor on Jimmy piece by piece. Fastening the leather straps and overlapping the pieces until he is perfectly protected inside the half plate.
"Finished. You're all dressed up. Now we can go out."
She then grabs her own stuff and puts her backpack on.
Tauriell collects her arsenal of weapons and stows them at her belt and the bow over her shoulder. "I'm ready to go. There is still one derro too much alive in that dungeon. Let's go and fix that."
"I'm always ready. And I have this scroll of fireball that has to be put to good use. It would be nice to have more than one derro to try that. But it will do." Abomentolor says.
"I am ready too."
"Are you sure you want to waste such a potent magic on something so small?"