A New World: Taking Stock

[aldersprig]

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Caron and Hallsey had left, leaving Kael alone in her tower again but with far more to think about.

She had, she realized, spoken more words to other people today than she probably had in a week back in her old life.

And she knew nothing about the world outside.  She was only managing as well as she did because of the translation potion, and when that failed her, she was going to be left looking blankly at people while they talked about matters that were ancient history to them and still far in the future for her.

She inventoried her ingredients slowly and began a list.  Some of these things were incorrectly labelled; she added a tiny notation to the bottom of each label in her own script.  Some of them were getting stale. A few were missing altogether.

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Comments

[kelkyag]

but what she remembered was maybe twenty years, back when she herself was an apprentice

She was an apprentice only twenty years ago in her personal frame of reference? I'd gotten the impression from other segments that she'd lived lifetimes as the Kael.

Well, yay practical answers and tower management.

[aldersprig]

...oops, continuity fail. Thanks for the catch.

Two HUNDRED years ago.

[kailing]

amusingly, when my brain read it, it just rationalized it: 'oh she means subjectively in her ridiculously long life, it felt like twenty years in relation to a 'regular' lifespan'

[sauergeek]

I hope the translation potion keeps, or can be made in such a way that it does. I suspect either she'll have to time things quite carefully, or carry a flask of it with her, to re-dose when it starts wearing off.

Hooray for her getting a half-day off!

I'm curious about that spread on the third floor.

And where will she get money in any quantity? I'm going to guess that her wages will be fairly small.