[SE] Oh, Valley of Plenty

Maea Big dreamers shoot for open skies It was deceptively easy to fall back into the role she had played for so long. Bartering, doing business... once it had been the only face anyone ever saw of her. The Valaire girl, come to speak for her father, her brother, for the farm and the business. The Apple family, the ones with the sheep and the trees. Just Maea. It was a relief to be able to leave it behind, in truth. But what would the new her need in order to get her feet back on the ground? One couldn't start over without clothes on her back, food in her belly and a roof over her head. Before she would have asked for lumber, nails, seed or hands to help with the harvest come Leafchange. Now... Shifting, she touched the surface of the bar with light fingers. They weren't trembling, nor did her voice, but there was something very tentative in her eyes as she looked about. "Do... you have rooms here? I've been looking for lodgings. If I could stay for a while, eat and sleep, I'd consider it an even trade." Perhaps a bit generous, but seeing as her house was no longer habitable and that the weeds were growing thick on meadows where sheep used to graze, she could not afford to be picky.