mute_pen | summoned

Etty is awoken not by her transformation, but by her summons, a few minutes after dark. In her sleep, she drifted to shore; she's lying in human form - arm intact - half in and half out of the water when she feels it.

It's very insistent.

She cannot bring herself to move. She tries - she does; intellectually she knows it's the smart thing to do - but - she can't. Cannot get up and go to him.

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From:

mute_pen

Is there anything else interesting? (A book left in a non-library, perhaps? Etty sorely misses reading books.)

From:

pythbox

Big, imposing halls. Empty rooms. Rooms full of old furniture with cobwebs all over it. Rooms full of old furniture sans cobwebs.

From:

mute_pen

Etty wonders if she can find where the food comes from and take some of it. She's a little tired of fruit, and he doesn't feed her nightly.

From:

pythbox

In a word, no. There's a kitchen, but it's haphazardly equipped and doesn't currently contain food.

From:

mute_pen

And there aren't any leftovers on the table, either, are there.

From:

pythbox

No.

From:

mute_pen

Of course not.

Etty goes out to the orchard, and finds her writing materials, and does her day's processing.

From:

pythbox

She is not interrupted.

From:

mute_pen

She puts her scroll away, and -

Is remarkably bored, really.

She climbs a fruit tree, falls, hurts her foot, and chooses lower-hanging fruit, limping around, when she has room to put away more food.

She waits for Nona, if Nona should choose to come.