Settling in for now

JP with Lucian, Winteroak and Bandorchu

Alexis watched the young shaman as he left to do whatever someone like him might do. She shook her head slightly.

What was it with those mysterious figures always being as obscure as they could possibly be? Would it hurt them to just be to the point for once?
Probably just their version of fun times or something…

She shrugged towards Tarmen and led her horse to the trough, so it could get its well-earned fill of water.

“We might as well settle in, I suppose…”
She said to her friend, starting to unload her equipment from her mare’s back.

Tarmen’s eyes followed the boy for a minute longer than Alexis. He could appreciate him vouching for them to stay in town, but was utterly fed up with him as a person.
When he finally had his petty fill of stabbing daggers from his eyes, he joined Alexis in caring for his own horse and preparing to rest.
“I suppose. As long as our host keeps his preachin’ down.”
He forced himself to shrug off his own irritation for now, knowing there wasn’t much he could do about it and wanting to actually rest. He also still held worries for Alexis, but wasn’t sure if now was a good time to ask. Maybe after she rested…

After setting up camp, Alexis had taken the time to make the trek back to the Atsigani, concluding the deal and buying the equipment Zargari had suggested.

Though she would have kind of preferred to leave the horses with them, if more for the animals’ well-being than for their exchange value, the situation just felt to convoluted to do so.

Even if they could, eventually, convince the villagers to grant them passage, it was unclear when the caravan would arrive - a week at the very least, or so Zargari had told them. They might very well need the mobility in the meantime.
So she just paid and left the Atsigani with some final words of thanks and best wishes for their journey.

Later that evening you see the boy starting a fire, filling a large metal pot with water and placing it over the flames.

While the water boiled he started to strip a few ears of corn and slicing some orange vegetable into the pot, to each he added a handful of beans.

An hour or so later he settled for the evening near his fire and invited you to join him for supper.

After cleaning herself up Alexis followed Berus’s invitation albeit a little hesitantly, feeling quite out of her depth with the young shaman.