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Chapter 1.03

Most mentioned character
102 mentions
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Most mentioned skill
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Erin Solstice
Erin thought about that for a moment.
Erin Solstice
After another hour, Erin decided to get up. Her body protested the movement, but her stomach overruled her legs. She got up and reluctantly stumbled out the door.
Erin Solstice
Her legs hurt. As she stepped outside, Erin felt at the back of her legs and winced.
Erin Solstice
She should wash those. If she had water. But since she didn’t and the wounds were already scabbed over, Erin left them and started walking.
Erin Solstice
It was a long, long walk back to the fruit trees. Erin was only glad she remembered where they were. She was even gladder that there weren’t any suspicious rocks along her route, but that only made her warier. Could they burrow? Were there grass crabs?
Erin Solstice
If there were, they didn’t seem interested in her at the moment. Erin found the strange, spindly trees easily and picked an armful of blue fruits. She was glad they were bountiful with the blue orbs, and gladder still the Goblins hadn’t stripped them bare. But it was a veritable orchard here, so she gathered as many as she could.
Erin Solstice
Erin sat and ate fourteen. It wasn’t that she was hungry so much as really thirsty. She sucked as much of the blue juice out of the fruits before gathering as many as she could carry and walked back to the inn. The seed cores she left where they lay.
Erin Solstice
Erin doubled back and grabbed two seed cores and placed them carefully on top of her stack of blue fruits.
Erin Solstice
Erin thought about that as she walked back over the sloping ground, taking care not to trip and break the seed cores. How would she make anything, anyways?
Erin Solstice
But now that she thought of it, Erin remembered the trees.
Erin Solstice
Frustrated, Erin kicked a tree and dodged another falling blue fruit. She added it to her armful and walked back to the inn.
Erin Solstice
The room was still a mess from last night’s fight. Erin set the fruits down on one table and started righting chairs and tables.
Erin Solstice
Her eyes fell on the knife she’d taken from one of them. Slowly, Erin’s legs folded up, and she sat on the dusty ground again. Then she sneezed.
Erin Solstice
Erin got down and began sweeping up the dust on the floor. It was difficult since she had to move all the tables and chairs out of the way, but it gave her something to do. She only had a small, dirty rag anyways after cutting the curtain into easier-to-use parts, so she was mainly doing it to think. Her mouth was terribly dry, but Erin started working. She had to focus.
Erin Solstice
Erin got down and began sweeping up the dust on the floor. It was difficult since she had to move all the tables and chairs out of the way, but it gave her something to do. She only had a small, dirty rag anyways after cutting the curtain into easier-to-use parts, so she was mainly doing it to think. Her mouth was terribly dry, but Erin started working. She had to focus.
Erin Solstice
Erin stared at the waves of dust as she scrubbed.
Erin Solstice
Erin thought about that.
Erin Solstice
Not that she was going to make a habit of that! Just Goblins. She could fight them off. Then Erin reconsidered again. 
Erin Solstice
She’d have to remember to do that. Then she’d be forewarned and could hold them off or run; they didn’t seem as fast as she was. So she was reasonably safe from them? Erin bit her lip.
Erin Solstice
Erin stopped and put her face in her hands. She immediately regretted that decision.
Erin Solstice
The floor of the inn was made out of floorboards. Very sensibly, and in keeping with the rest of the inn, which was also made out of wood. However, Erin had never seen the floor before. Up till this very moment, it had been covered by a thick layer of dust.
Erin Solstice
There had been so many clumps of dust rabbits it had been more like a dust sea, and a disgusting one at that. Erin had left a trail every time she walked across the floor, hence her desire to get rid of it. A task that would surely take at least two days given the size of the inn and her tool of choice, a rag instead of a broom or mop.
Erin Solstice
Now though, she was staring at the floor. A clean, dustless floor. Erin gazed down and then stared some more. Then she looked at her hands.
Erin Solstice
It must have been, but how had she done it? Of the numerous and varied—of the few talents Erin possessed, cleaning was not one of them.
Erin Solstice
Erin scuffed at the floor and amended that thought.