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A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

Quick post is up.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

--- Center of Settlement ---

Early Afternoon
@Expendable@Tally Dor@Xaltwind

"Thank you very much!" Brom happily accepted the rabbits though he had a little bit of a hard time holding them and the cast iron pot.

The look of disappointment had not escaped Brom's notice when Sheryl looked down at the relatively pitiful pile of wood. The dwarf smiled apologetically at her and said, "Ah, sorry ma'am. We would have gathered more wood, but that would have meant discarding an invaluable ingredient for tonight's dinner." He held up the big cast iron pot up to indicate that there indeed was something inside of it, followed by the sound of a muffled sloshing noise.

His attention though was turned to another elf who seemed to be quite interested in what he was doing before telling him something that peeked his interest. He did not need to kneel down too far, given that he was a dwarf,to see the not literal fruits of her labor. Carefully he placed the pot down and slung the dead rabbits over his shoulder. His hands picked the bundle of rice up and examined it carefully. It was so fresh, so fresh in fact that it still has yet to be hulled.

"Well, the tea can be a nice drink for later. As for the grains, we're doing this the old fashion way. Help me separate the stalks from the grain and step on the grains. This will loosen the hull around them." To show what he meant he ripped a piece of the grain off the stem and proceeded to step on it hard, twisting his foot against it before he picked it up and showed her the grains of rice with their hulls loosened.

"See? It's that ea-" Brom jumped, the bag full of cutlery and pans clattered and bang. Some devil shouted about goblins and loincloths? "What in Great Mother Mountain's bosom was that?."

Then there was something else; the clopping of horse hooves against the ground. He turned to look at a rather weary looking man on his horse. Now this could have been a coincidence, but Brom felt like he may have seen this man before though he couldn't place the time or place. "More like we all have decided to move here. Tell me I wasn't hallucinating about some guy shouting about goblins and loincloths."

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

Working on my post. Was the rice that Niara and Yingmei grew and presented to Brom hulled or did I miss it?

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

@Xaltwind
We did what we could. The apartment is ready for the real estate agent to do her stuff. My grandmother is in a nursing home though one of us will probably need to be back there in a few weeks. Finances are pretty much sorted. Very pissed off with the people who were boarding my dogs. One of them developed a limp two weeks ago and they didn't take her to the vet and they didn't tell us she had a limp until today when we picked them up. I am just hoping that it's just a sprain that never got a chance to fully heal because they still let her play or just arthritis from old age though it was way too sudden to be that. Either way when the vet is open I gotta give them a call.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

Finally back home. It’s gonna take sometime to get readjusted, but I’ll try my best to post sooner rather than later.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

Just a heads up, I will be back in my home country by the end of the week and jetlag permitting will get a normal posting schedule up soon.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

Australia is kicking my ass right now. Will try to get something up soon.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

So I won’t have wifi until I am back in the states. I will try to type out some phone posts when I am able to.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

Having internet troubles. No idea when it will get fixed.

A New Day; Cozy Fantasy Village Life

--- Center of Settlement ---

Early Afternoon

Bloody hell, why did things have to go down while he had his hands full?! The dwarf was one second away from throwing the cast iron pot at Akigatsu's head though before he could, Myrr stepped past Brom. "Hey what're you-?" The botanist stepped between the blacksmith and the source of his ire. He watched as others gathered around the commotion and were quick to rightly admonish Akigatsu for quickly leaning towards violence and incivility. Brom furrowed his brow mainly in disappointment. Of course, the Mackinnon child was not blameless though very little ever warranted drawing a weapon on an unarmed civilian.

He watched as Akigatsu rushed off to where his supposed shop would be located. Well, that has certainly cast a pall in the air, thought Brom. However, his attention fell upon the dwarf woman that he met earlier that day. She was holding a couple of rabbits, freshly killed ones at that. There's an idea. Well, there was only one thing that he could do to help lift everyone's spirits.

With a deep breath, he clapped his hands loudly together and brightly said with a wide grin, "Well I think it's time that I start making preparations for our dinner! If anyone has any ingredients to contribute, please do so." The dwarf chef smiled assuredly. It was a big ask them to trust him, he knew that, but really it was the only thing he could do. He wasn't a carpenter, a blacksmith, a herbalist, or even a farmer. He was a chef and if there were hungry bellies then he would do the one thing that he did best.

Brom turned to the brave herbalist and gave her a gentle smile. "Myrr, if you could, could you gather those dandelion greens from just outside of the village, ones without any flowering buds. A lot of them if you can." He then said to the crowd, "If someone could accompany her, that would be of great help." It was always better to travel at the very least in pairs. They had no idea who or what their neighbors were so another pair of eyes keeping an eye out would've put him at ease. However, dinner was no good with just greens, they needed protein.

His attention focused on the rabbits in the grasp of his fellow dwarf. "Now, I understand if you don't wish to share, but I can assure you that I can make it or whatever you bring in taste much better. I will also be using ingredients from my own stock as well, so don't feel like I am asking something for nothing." He could only hope that the other dwarf could be swayed by the temptation of better tasting food because there were quite a few

There was however the question of what he was going to do with the little fella sitting in his pot. It took time to prep the slime and frankly speaking, he needed the pot to cook everyone's dinner. Well, he'd figure it out.