Hester
Tight hold on that hope
Hester expects to struggle, expects to stumble a little with the load they're asked to carry, but she doesn't expect her and Chulane to fail quite so badly. Her face radiates heat between the freckles, and she, quite bitterly, thinks that if the assorted tradesmen could have simply done this to start, instead of letting them struggle, her embarrassment could have been avoided.
Hands on her shoulders, Morgans, then Chuys, drive away her insecurities, the burgeoning stress, and she manages a distracted smile, before immediately settling into one of the other tasks. She pauses to think for moment, offering a distracted affirmation that she'd translate whatever her fellow attuned needed.
Normally, her good social graces would distaste that she let Beatrix keep working on the floor, but at the moment, it's the one job left that will keep her mostly isolated, so Hester descends upon it with gusto, putting all of her focus into lining up the planks and getting them hammered into place. If nothing else, it'll will ensure they're installed perfectly, even if she's all but ignoring everything else around her.
Hands on her shoulders, Morgans, then Chuys, drive away her insecurities, the burgeoning stress, and she manages a distracted smile, before immediately settling into one of the other tasks. She pauses to think for moment, offering a distracted affirmation that she'd translate whatever her fellow attuned needed.
Normally, her good social graces would distaste that she let Beatrix keep working on the floor, but at the moment, it's the one job left that will keep her mostly isolated, so Hester descends upon it with gusto, putting all of her focus into lining up the planks and getting them hammered into place. If nothing else, it'll will ensure they're installed perfectly, even if she's all but ignoring everything else around her.
Sometimes it could seem so cold
Do what you gotta do to cope
