Spoiler alert: it was not a handwriting test.
Jigano sat down a chair away from Quanil to give them space and not feel like he was looking over their shoulder. He was impressed to see them chose the pencil, appreciating both the pragmatism and the conservation of scarce resources when the points of discussion they were writing down might need several drafts. The question that came next was as unexpected as it was pertinent, and he paused thoughtfully as he considered it. Maea was leaving her farm behind as well, and would also need a place to stay in town, and with Quanil joining her, and Outlanders who didn't always have their own lodgings ready and waiting for them...
"We don't... yet," he said slowly. "Though you bring up an important point. We're going to need something of the sort soon, ideally attached to the Atheneum itself, or perhaps nearby..." He shook off his musing, smiling at the new challenge through the sadness of Fiat Lux's losses. "I have an arrangement with the owner of the VlamVloed, though. He has a few rooms there, and one of our other Loreseekers is already staying there. Maea Valair, if you've heard of her?" A fellow Natural farming family, the Valair farmstead had been attacked by monsters last LongNight and the family decimated. Only Maea now remained, and she had disappeared for a year, only recently returned.
"I can take you over and introduce you to Sunjata, the VlamVloed's owner after this, if you'd like?"
Jigano sat down a chair away from Quanil to give them space and not feel like he was looking over their shoulder. He was impressed to see them chose the pencil, appreciating both the pragmatism and the conservation of scarce resources when the points of discussion they were writing down might need several drafts. The question that came next was as unexpected as it was pertinent, and he paused thoughtfully as he considered it. Maea was leaving her farm behind as well, and would also need a place to stay in town, and with Quanil joining her, and Outlanders who didn't always have their own lodgings ready and waiting for them...
"We don't... yet," he said slowly. "Though you bring up an important point. We're going to need something of the sort soon, ideally attached to the Atheneum itself, or perhaps nearby..." He shook off his musing, smiling at the new challenge through the sadness of Fiat Lux's losses. "I have an arrangement with the owner of the VlamVloed, though. He has a few rooms there, and one of our other Loreseekers is already staying there. Maea Valair, if you've heard of her?" A fellow Natural farming family, the Valair farmstead had been attacked by monsters last LongNight and the family decimated. Only Maea now remained, and she had disappeared for a year, only recently returned.
"I can take you over and introduce you to Sunjata, the VlamVloed's owner after this, if you'd like?"
