//Central Village@Xaltwind@Dragonydas@CitrusArms“Eh?”MacKinnon froze when the woman started screaming. She turned around one side. Turned around the other side. Saw no one else around her. Then, right as she was grabbed by the red-headed woman, she pointed at herself and said,
“You talking about me?”And them, it was a flurry of care that she had fundamentally never experienced in her life. This was the girl who had swallowed shiny rocks to get them out from underneath the eyes of the overseer, the girl who basically bounced from town to village to city as a lone traveller in search for treasure, the girl who was worming her way into the depths of mines before she was even old enough to know that there were twenty six letters in the alphabet. Faced with all this pseudo-parental care, MacKinnon was…repulsed.
It was like sleeping on a bed of feathers: so comfy, so soft, that she couldn’t even breathe.
“Hol’ up, hold up!” The treasure hunter wrenched her face away from the cloth that Daryl used to clean her up with, bouncing back a couple of steps for good measure.
“I’m fine! Buncha scraps and bruises like these are badges of honor for people like me, and anyways, I said I was revived, so it’s all good.”She shook her head, then puffed her chest out proudly.
“And I’m neither little nor lady!” The treasure hunter thumped a fist against her heart, then brandished her broken compass as if it were the gospel of the gods.
“I’m MacKinnon the Treasure Hunter! Back before I could count my age on my ten fingers, I was already uncovering the secret treasures of the earth, and I’ve been digging up artifacts and crystals ever since! Daryl, Sheryl, you are good, kind-hearted fellows, and it’ll be a pleasure to be neighbourly with you two, but since I’ll probably be looking like this more often than not, there’s no need to fuss over me unless my bones are bent in weird ways or I’m puking blood all over the place, ok?”Hopefully that’ll settle things, from now to forever.
But what it didn’t do was settle things with the old well. While the couple fell into their marital chattering again, this time towards some book-reading woman intent on ignoring everything around her, MacKinnon settled her gaze upon the one that dropped from the sky instead.
“Hey, you. Wanna fix the well together? You look like you work with your hands n all.”