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Cracking an eye open after being woken up, again.
Sigrun, put Lyosha to bed, and make him forget about the wolf. I trust Hobbes, there for I trust his pup. When we wake up, IN THE MORNING, we will have a talk about respecting boundaries and expressing our thoughts in a constructive way.
Turning to Hobbes, speaking in a quieter tone of voice.
You will not find help or solace in bottom of that flask, I tried before, it did not help. It only made me forget for the night. The youngling will come around, be patient with him, and us.
Settling back for the night again, she wraps her hand around her wedding ring and holy symbol, taking comfort in them.
No dreams, please my Lady, I don't need to see them. Let me go past this please. Take the memory of our last meeting from me, let me remember everyone as they had been. And grant the children some peace.
"Just so tired. I just wanna make a right decision for once." Hobbes says pouring out the flask.
I believe you have made many good one lately.
You adopted a creature that could not take care of herself and took responsibility for her.
That is a good decision, just not an easy one to carry out.
Your efforts in the tower helped us win the battle and therefor close the Winter Portal to Heldern.
The choice to go out into the unknown is both brave and selfless, many would not go.
You pursuit of Percy was a good idea, yes?
And friendship of her troubled sister, yes?
All of us are your friends and allies, these are good choices, yes?
Sigrun, put Lyosha to bed, and make him forget about the wolf.
Neverhome raises a finger and his mouth begins to move in protest but he is unable to formulate a response other than simply scratching his head and looking at the ground.
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"Yes Vashti." Sigrun says quietly, her solemn tone doing little to disguise the twinkle in her eyes or the faint curl of her lips. Walking over to Lyosha she leans against his chest, looking coyly up into his feral yellow eyes.
"You heard 'Mamushka', time for bed. You think too much sometimes...and I can fix that. she says taking his hand and leading him to where the bedrolls were stored.
"I.." He starts but then the words immediately die, true to her word it is plainly obvious that all thought has left his eyes as he looks down into her emerald green. His mouth finally settling on a position, in this case his lips pursed close, he nods obediantly as she leads him away.
After the gremlins' shrieks wake him, Zses stretches as he silently watches Lyosha and Hobbes. With a sigh, he prepares himself for his watch shift.
Percy starts bolt upright at the terrible noise of a gremlin dying. But it was already dead, so she lays back down.
Then Hobbes and Lyosha start bickering again. As I'd typical with arguments, there is no winner, and Hobbes hours for the bottle in frustration.
She gets up out of her bed. Without her bulky hide armor Percy looks much thinner and better proportioned. She walks over to Hobbes and Vashti as the later challenges the self perception of the former and lays her head on his shoulder. She looks up into his eyes, those large, shining, gnome eyes that dare him to say that pursuing was a bad idea.
In the morning-----------
Percy stares wordlessly at the devastation of their stockpile. All that meat, gone. What a waste.
"Ugh, damn." Zses lets out as a sigh as he carefully picks up a piece of raven meat and tosses it away. "It was those gremlins' work, I guess? Well, looks like we're on muffin diet for a while." the witch smiles to the party, trying to lighten the mood.
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"Or just keep doing what we've been doing. We're bound to be attacked by something edible sooner or later. And we're attacked a lot." Crow comments. Somehow, it seems the raven is getting better at talking by the day, not without some effort.
The sound of the gremlin slaughter awoke him, He stared quietly and blankly at the cut in twain corpse for a moment before checking on all the horses and running his eyes over the area. Again Friend hobbes and neverhome were bickering. He pursed his lips in silent annoyance. It seemed that Neverhome very recently was getting good at riling up those on this quest to end the winter. He didnt understand Neverhomes ire of Hila, It was an intelligent creature, intelligence allowed for deductive reasoning and learning and could become a powerful ally... then again it wasnt for him to say.
He stayed up for a bit keeping a bit of a watch over the horses and the like in case those gremly things came back, but eventually he found slumber again. The news of the food spoilage didnt surprise him, another...difficult thing to deal with, but deal with it they would. When they set out again, he would take care to keep an eye out for anything edible.
Dump the bad water... clean it out with a rag and fill it with snow. If we keep the water skins close to our bodies it will help melt it with out efforts, we will have water at least. He mentioned in passing to friend Vashti and the others before he mounted Mule bow drawn arrow nocked for game if need be.
Unlike with Lyosha, Hobbes had a hard time arguing with Mamushka. It gets worse when Percy lays her head on his shoulder and looks into his eyes. He sighs as he is rendered powerless by the gnome and just smiles.
Later in the morning, he curses silently as the food is all rotted away.
Allie didn't really react to anything. That night during her watch she barely looked at Zses and spoke even less.
The morning was just as the night. No real reactions to the happenings of the night.
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"Are you going to feed me now? That stupid human pup threw away a good meal."
"There isn't much out here, maybe the cat found something out here."
"Oh good, a hairball and maybe a single mouse sounds delicious."
Hila shakes her head.
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Morning Spoiler
Prays in morning, changes orsion to Purify Food and Drink.
Mamushka fixes problem. With a few words of praise to her Lady the spiled food become unspoiled.
As for water, a quick snap of her fingers produces a small deluge.
Percy is about to cry when mommy Vashti comes along and solves all their woes. Well, that morning almost started off very poorly. Still, everyone else was scavenging so...
Zses sighs with relief as Mamushka fixes the problem with just a flick of her wrist "Thanks Vashti!".
Noticing that Allie didn't get better since last night, the witch crouches near the gnome and smiles. "Still not feeling okay?" he asks gently.
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