Sera blinked at the little creature, then she smiled. "You want some?"
She ripped off a piece of pie and laid it next to her on the bench inviting the furred one to jump up and nibble on it. Sure enough, the little critter did exactly that and Sera happily petted it. In moments like this, Sera's tough-girl surface melted away and her soft, caring core showed.
But only until she caught herself. She straightened her composure again, waved goodbye to the little animal and went shopping for foodstuff and other necessities needed for another expedition.
Hours later, the sun had already set when Sera finally finished all her preparations for her scavenging hunt that would begin as soon as the sun was up. She planned to go to bed pretty soon, but for now, she enjoyed watching the orange sky and the light show above it. Suddenly the sky lit up even more as a blue-white star races across it and plummeted towards the ground. A shattering white light banished the orange of the setting sun for a moment, before a shattering sound made the ground beneath her wobble.
She wasn't very superstitious, but such a thing certainly carried some meaning, even for her. Maybe it was the heavens telling her to stay at home, but maybe the opposite, she wasn't sure.
However, she was sure as soon as she heard the town criers call out the will of the king, whose castle was literally on the other side of the island from Sera.
"I'd never have any monetary trouble anymore... no more fearing to die from starvation...", she contemplated.
She had packed her stuff for a multiple week journey anyway and she could certainly stretch it to a period of 2 months. There was one thing she did need to do before she started.
Sera grabbed her trusty stick from her rack, moved into her tool chamber and grabbed an iron halberd head and proceeded to nail it onto the stick fitting quite perfectly.
"Great!"
Carefully she swung the halberd and poked a stuffed bad with it. Satisfied with the quality of the new weapon, she nodded, hung it onto the rack from which she took the stick earlier.
Even before the sun had fully risen, Sera was already up and on her way to the mentioned meeting point. When the sun rose past the horizon's edge, Sera sat in the dirt at the meeting point, her legs crossed, her skirt covering them and her halberd lodged into the ground next to her quite menacingly.