>>5460236>>5460258>>5460360>>5460381>>5460619Well for better or worse, you've found your way to Bexley and saved it from destruction, so you may be staying here for awhile. There's no shortage of need however, and your help is most appreciated. More indeed than back in Eindward, if you thought such a thing was possible. There you were saving people from injury and ill, while here you are doing the same thing yet you also saved them from slaughter by the elves.
Maybe that would be enough normally, but due to the heavy burden of the conflict and the instability of what remains, there isn't even a functioning noble house or clergy to object to you. In that way you find it easier to be accepted by the... well it's hardly a populace left, but the occupants of the castle. They may not understand what you are or what your presence means but after all they've been through, when they witness you miraculously saving people from death and your eyes alight with divinity, they'll welcome you for whatever you claim to be.
<span class="mu-r">"No no, no gifts. How little we have here, keep it for yourself or share with fami- others, if you can."</span>
<span class="mu-s">"You can at least not stay out here in the courtyard then, your grace?"</span>
You're surely got your hands full, but after several days things are starting to... improve. A foray to the abandoned elven camp brings back enough supplies to replenish what the castle lost from the siege, that's probably the biggest benefit to everyone all around so that people are getting enough to eat again. In about as much time too, you manage to save anyone who would have perished, and then furthermore seen to the less fatal injuries and disease of pretty much everyone now dwelling in the castle. Now at least, more people are in fighting condition and less people are withering away from overlooked and untreated problems.
Having seen to the living then, comes next your more somber duty to the dead. When finally you get a chance to yourself, you can make that same passage to the realm of the dead, and help any in need... and many there are. The amount of suffering and death here is much greater than Eindward and over a much longer period of time, so you find yourself a bit overwhelmed by the amount of dead filling the mirrored area. As you know most of them will naturally orient to their appropriate afterlife, but even the lost and the abandoned, there's so many more here that you have your work cut out for you... even more effort needed in fact, than for the living! Although part of this is simply because there's not that many living humans left.
