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Thendara market - still Early morning
The two renunciates reached the market place after a quarter candlemark and set up their stall. It was still cold but the sun was coming up and the day promised to be pleasant. Most of the other traders had appeared already as well, as they hoped to do good business today. Rayna went over to one of the food vendors who sold jaco as well and brought a cup to her. "Here, for your help, " she said.
"Oh, thank you, " answered Devra and smiled none-comittingly. She was always happy about a cup of jaco, no matter who it came from. "I hope the day will get as promising as it starts, " she said.
"Oh yes, I do hope so, but why not? On a day like this not even the laziest Comynara will stay inside .. "
So between light conversation and amiable silence the day proceeded and the first customers began to fill the market place.
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And my drum will beat this day, pounding for the gaidheal. Oh, I do believe dust will turn the seed home
Rory and Calum Mac Donald
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Re: Thendara market - still Early morning
cont from: Road to Thendara
The buildings all around cut off the sky and Valerie had the sense to hold the path back to the rooming house form in her mind as she followed the sounds - and her nose - to the open square where sellers sang out their wares and folk mingled in crowds larger than she'd ever seen before.
She hovered uneasily against a wall, hand fisted around her money pouch. So many people. Others too, sometimes, with fur and she gave them the same wide berth everyone else did though she didn't know if they were pets, or strange animals or Terranans. Her stomach moved her along, finally, in search of something hot for breakfast. They'd lived on trail food too long and she desperately wanted something to tempt Val's appetite.
The prices on fresh fruit and vegetables shocked her and she had to pass them by. Things that she grew in her own garden ... now they were too much to to afford. She fetched up in the baker's corner finally, where the smell of fresh bread and fried sweets made her stomach growl.
It wasn't a man there, with the cropped hair and the quilted vest and Valerie gaped rudely, totally flustered, before she dropped her gaze to the bundles of bread and piles of dark, savory rolls. She wanted the ground to swallow her up and why was everything so difficult here?
"M-Mestra," she fumbled for her manners, rubbing a hand nervously down the front of her skirt. The woman was wearing pants, and Valerie flushed at the sight. She had to be one of those Rununciates that never bothered with small villages like Fairlyn. The woman was getting no looks from anyone else in the square and that made sense, with furred creatures and people from another world, an Amazon wasn't a shock to anyone. Valerie lifted her chin and straightened her back, because she wasn't going to live the rest of her life as a small town girl - wasn't that why she and her brother where here in the first place?
"Mestra, could I have two of the meat pastries and ... those rolls there, if you please?" If she could find cheese, she could make a lunch of those heavy dark rolls and that reminded her of Val, hopefully still abed, and that she needed other things as well. Valerie glanced uncertainly around the square before looking back to the baker. She had heard that a Rununciate must help any woman who sought them out and surely a few questions about the city would not be rude? The woman looked hard but Valerie had grown up with fishermen and sailors, she knew that hard hands didn't always mean a hard heart.
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Keen green eyes that also held a touch of blue in the sunlight measured the winan, no girl in front of her. She wore a married woman's hairstyle and a skirt of a fashion that she had never seen here in Thendara. Alss, her speach betrayed her as stranger to the town and she seemed uncertain.
"Sure ye can, young mestra, " Rayna answered in her warm dark voice and packed the specified goods in a linen bag which they kept for such purposes. Usually the customers braught their own bags and baskets but this one here obviously had a long journey behind her and there were always a few who forgit ti brng something to carry their shopping. Curiouss Rayna asked: "Have you travelled from far away?"
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"Have you travelled from far away?"
"Oh, aye, we came all the way up the river from the sea," Valerie said with a smile and a little bounce of relief at the woman's friendliness. "Along the caravan route, mostly, and so to here - where all the roads meet."
Valerie slipped a few iron coins from her money pouch, scraping her teeth nervously over her lip as she handed them over. The prices were fair, from what she'd seen of the other stalls in the market, but if everything were so costly, she and Valente would be in trouble much sooner than she'd planned. Especially with Val sick and she had to do something about that - there was no one here, no family, no friends, to help them. Just the two of them. "Mestra ... do you know of a good herbalist - or perhaps even a healer? One that - " she shrugged helplessly. "someone new to the city can afford?"
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"That's a tidy way from the sea of Daleruth to here, " Rayna answered, as she took the coins. Normally she would have counted them, but judging after the last words of the young woman she did not have much money. So it didn't really matter if the sum was not quite right - not to her anyway. "Thank you, mestra."
Then she looked at her opposite and said in answer to her question: "You don't look ill to me ..., so I suppose you want the healer for somebody else?"
While Rayna waited for an answer she already ran through the list of people she knew and who might be able to help the young woman.
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"Aye, it's strange to sleep without the sound of the water singing in my ears," Valerie said wistfully. She shook herself from the memories, she'd left home of her own will and desire and she'd shed no tears now.
"You don't look ill to me ..., so I suppose you want the healer for somebody else?"
Worry darkened Valerie's pretty face at the baker's blunt question. "My brother," she admitted quietly. "and it's been weeks that he's been ill." It wasn't news to share with a total stranger but Valerie had been carrying her fear for her brother since they'd left home and this morning … the memory of Valente's white face still made her heart jump. "I'd like to find some whiteleaf, if nothing else."
"Perhaps it's true, what they say -" Valerie tried to lighten her tone but the strain in her voice was clear. "the fishermen of Dalereuth cannot leave the sound of the sea or their hearts will break."
"Most likely he needs to rest," she finished with an uneasy shiver. "but the name of a healer would not go amiss, Mestra."
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"You can get white - leaf at that stand over there, mestra." Rayna pointed to a stall not too far from her own, where a young man and a young woman with red hair in dark grey robes sold some herbs.
"They might know, who could help your brother ...", the Renunciate said.
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Valerie craned her neck to see the booth the Renunciate pointed at. Valerie had never seen Comyn nor Tower workers but she knew the stories and she'd assumed the first time around the market square that such folk had nothing to do with her. "All right then," she said, gathering her bag. "Thank you kindly, Mestra -" she flashed a quick, relived smile at the woman. "I'm Valerie of - from Dalereuth," she stammered over her home name and settled for a more general term. "And if there's anything I can do in thanks, say the word."
OOC: She'll head off after Rayna responds.
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"They won't bite yer head off, young mestra, " Rayna chuckled. "I assume they are not much older than yourself, Valerie of Dalerruth." Then she smiled at the girl in front of her. "I am Rayna n' ha Sherna from the Guild House in Thendara here. That over there - " she pointed to the woman who had watched them non-comittingly - " - is my guild - sister Devra n' ha Renata." She smiled warmly at Valerie: "If you need any more help, you are welcome to visit me there or here at the market. We sell bread most of the days .... And, if I were you, ask the young people over there - you will find no-one more knowledgable and caring here on the market - place."
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ooc: if Valerie wants to talk with the two young tower workers I ' ll NPC them and if she wants the healer they will contact Eddarrd telepathically 
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Rayna's guild-sister looked neither like a sister nor sisterly, with her arms crossed like a barrier and a bland face but Valerie gave them both a bob and smile. "Thank you, Mestra Rayna - we're staying nearby and it's to your bakery we'll come."
She gave a slightly abashed look at the Tower workers. "The Tower of Aillard have no healers to spare for simple folks," she said. "I thought they must be about some important work here, not to talk about my brother's headache."
"Thank you!" she said again, with a wave and scooped the sack of bread under her arm to make her way through the growing morning crowds to the herb booth manned by the gray clad Tower servants.
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She had to wait, clutching her bread, as others sought advice, herbs and healing from the two folk at the booth. It was true, what Rayna had said, the Tower sworn looked not much older than herself. They were pretty, in the manner of the Comyn, with fire colored hair and pale, fine faces. Valerie nibbled on one of the meat pastries she'd bought, to quiet her stomach, then shuffled forward, ducking her head politely under the gaze of the young man.
"Su serva do'myn," she murmured. "Pardon, but the Mestra Renunciate sent me this way - for my brother." She glanced up earnestly, "he's sick and she said you might have herbs or - or advice …." Valerie trailed off, somewhere between hopeful and desperate.
OOC: yup, NPCing the tower workers would be great. I'll get a post up momentarily.
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