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Your inquiry at the library about hiring a translator for the Assurian books yields you an offer from a professional scholar. You pay him 50 silver upfront, with 50 owed after the job is done, get his contacts, and depart for the south, leaving him to his work.
Adrien buys some field cooking utensils, flint and other stuff for surviving in the wild. While the central parts of Nousia are fairly densely populated, you'll most likely be veering into forests a lot to make use of the charm for its scavenging powers - otherwise you may run out of silver buying rations in 2 or 3 months. You purchase a waterproof travelling cloak, as did your companion, for 6 silver - a good investment if you ever run into rains. [OOC: I hope you forgive my assumption that you'd want it, it is inexpensive and fairly useful]
Your make good progress. At this time of the summer, the berries are starting to ripen and edible shrooms are growing in full power after the rains. You only need to add some meat from the village farms to your diet to sustain yourselves, which means the cost of rations is cut almost in half. The forest beasts leave you alone, just like Alea promised.
One day, while travelling through the forest, you hear a whimpering animal cry. Following the voice, you find a mortally wounded beast, a big black cat the size of an ocelot, near a lair where a single kitten the size of a young regular cat crawls around. The parent gazes upon you with beady, pained eyes, but doesn't move to stop your approach.
"I recognize these ones." says Adrien with sympathy. "It is the aur cats, they're on some noble houses' coats of arms. They're kinda like regular cats, but feral. And big."
"What do you think we should do about it?"
"Hm, the parent is obviously not to survive, the kitten... we should either leave it some food and hope for the best or take it to a city and sell it to someone that can take care of it. We could keep it as a pet, but with our money it'd be difficult, so count me out of that."
>Take the kitten with you to a city with the intent to give it away for a profit.
>Leave some meat for it here, then go on your way.
>Take the kitten as a pet. It could grow into a powerful ally.
>Put both of them out of their misery.
>Write-in
