Jimmy arrives just shortly after Gwen, and sits down next to her, eyes closed, against the tree
As the sun is completely up Gwenhwyfar turns to the side, puts Destinée down in front of her and concentrates on the cat.
The sun wanders further up the sky and an hour later Gwenhwyfar is done with her prayer time. "Shall we go and finish the portrait?" she asks Jimmy.
"In a moment, I just want to sit here a while longer." 5 minutes later Jimmy is done as well and stands, offering Gwen a hand they walk into the manor together
Gwenhwyfar follows Jimmy into the meeting house. She unlocks the door to the Council Room and holds it open for Jimmy. "Just call me in once you're ready." she says and closes the door behind him.
As Jimmy calls, she enters too and after correcting Jimmy's pose she work in deep concentration to finish the piece of art.
After several more hours she steps back and with relief in her voice say "I think I'm done."
"Wow Gwen. That is incredible? Am I really that attractive?"
"Having second thoughts about getting your body back?" Gwenhwyfar jokes.
"Not at all. Now I just know why people have been looking at me so much lately. Is it always like that for you?"
After about two hours Niamh's head starts aching from memorizing melodys and textes and she closes the book with a snap and stands up. Putting it into the shelf again she throws a gaze out of a window, recognizing that the sun had risen already and sends it's light into the room. Grabbing her violin she walks out of the room and visits Wumbroudt Brios.
"Good morning." Niamh beams at the dwarf. "How are you today?"
"Not really. Usually you wear appropriate clothes and the vibes you're sending out are less sexual. As is not sexual at all. At least towards other people than me." Gwenhwyfar replies blushing.
"I'm great." Wumbrout replies. "How are you?"
"Your pie arrived already. If you need it, the stuff from the baker is all on the table in the dining room."
"I am wonderful. From every viewpoint." Niamh replies with a grin. "Thank you." She disappears into the dining room and fetches the cherry pie. Balancing it in one hand, in the other hand the violin case she walks over to the Guest house and pushs the door open with her left foot. she calls and puts the pie onto the table.
"Well, truly, you are just easy to love." Jimmy says blushing himself
"You flatter me." Gwenhwyfar replies, looking to the ground. "Shall we go and see what we do for breakfast?" She packs up all the painting goods and cleans the brushes.
"You first, I need to change again."
"That's the sound I want to wake up to." Tauriell says and rolls herself out of bed. She drags herself out of the room and at the table. "Please deliver here." she says with a wide smile.
"Ok. I'll bring these supplies back and then come back to fetch you." Gwenhwyfar leaves the room with all the painting stuff and the scaffold, gets the supply room key from Wumbrout Brios and puts the stuff away.
Once back she checks if Jimmy is ready. "I'll take the picture. Would you grab the rest?"
"Sure." Jimmy says packing up the things Gwen wants him to carry
Gwenhwyfar hangs a blanket over the picture to protect it from dirt and being viewed. "I guess I'll bring this picture to Mrs. Heidmarch immediately. If the others in the group get to see this we wont hear the end of it. What do you think?"
"I think that is a brilliant idea." Jimmy says blushing red again
Gwenhwyfar walks to the manor house and knocks.
"Good morning. What is your request?" Margaret asks after opening the door.
"I would like to bring this painting to Mrs. Heidmarch." Gwenhwyfar replies.
"Please follow me." Margaret replies and leads to the office of Mrs. Heidmarch. Knocking and then holding the door open she announces "Miss Gwenhwyfar for you."
She closes the door after Gwenhwyfar and goes back to her own work.
"Good morning Mrs. Heidmarch. Would you please archive this painting? And please don't show it around as long as Jimmy didn't get fixed." Gwenhwyfar requests blushing.
"Sure. Please put it over there at the shelf with the blanket I'll take care of that." Mrs. Heidmarch replies while she looks up from her work but continues afterwards paying no further attention.
Gwenhwyfar does as told and leaves to meet up with Jimmy again for breakfast at the guest house. "Good morning. Oh, I see we are back to old traditions. Starting the day with pie again. But this is no apple pie, is it?" She seats herself opposite to Tauriell.
"We need to get all these coins off the table." she says and pushes some of them back to get at least enough space for a plate.
"Nope. It's cherry pie. As wished, my lady." Niamh says answering Gwenhwyfar's question and makes with a sarcastic bow towards Tauriell clear what she thinks about not-payed delivery service to the elf's seat at the same time.
"Thank you Niamh." Jimmy says pulling a chair over for Gwen
"You're most welcome." The halfling flashes Jimmy a smile and takes a seat next to Tauriell taking out one of her daggers and cuts the pie in pieces.
Jimmy stays standing next to Gwen, playing with her hair, idly
"I already bagged my share of the coins. I guess Gwen and Niamh have to bag theirs to get most of it packed away according to the suggested distribution." Tauriell picks up the topic.
"How much of that is mine?" Abomentolor asks.
"About seven thousand two hundred and ten gold." Jimmy says doing some maths quickly
"Cool." Abomentolor replies and starts immediately counting coins to put in his pouch.
"How much do we get? Will it be enough to pay for you getting your body back?" Gwenhwyfar asks.
"Well you get 15220 and I get 9210 gold. Total of 24430 gold. How much was it going to cost again?"
"More than that?" Tauriell replies. "The material component alone was up to 25.000 gold."
"Well shit!" Jimmy grumbles
"I'm suddenly feel like starting a new business."
"Shylock Loans Ltd." Tauriell jokes.
"Har har har." Jimmy mock laughs
"You sure have no humor. You're stuck in this body for what? Four days? Five days? And you're already able to get that removed. Just missing a few thousand gold." Tauriell replies. "If you consider that you could just as well lie dead in that dungeon it's a mild inconvenience in comparison."
"It could be worse, yes, but it could also be better." Jimmy replies
"You just need to decide how urgent and how much better it would be to have that now. And who would lend you the money on what conditions. You sure know someone who likes you enough for that." Tauriell says.
"Or you put that body to some use before you revert it to earn some money. At the temple of Calistria they would probably pay top prices for this kind of sacrifice."
"If you are suggesting what I think you are suggesting, you are welcome to go yourself." Jimmy says somewhat put off, "But enough talk of serious things. Lets count the gold!" Jimmy says obviously trying to change the topic, he starts piling gold coins
After forming the piles Jimmy realises there is some gold missing, "Abomentolor, did you take the 2000 advance out of what you took now? What I told you earlier was total."
With a lot of coin columns in front of him Abomentolor counts "69, 70, 71, 72, ... couldn't you have told that earlier?" Abomentolor replies irritated counting twenty stacks he pushes back again to the big pile.
"I don't think that would be my favourite way to serve the Savored Sting." Tauriell replies with a mischievous smile.
"Shall we go and have some fun with our money?" Abomentolor asks Tauriell.
"Where to?" Tauriell asks back.
"Someone selling interior for our new home. I guess we pick up Isabella and go shopping." the gnome replies.