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Your body made sure you remembered as much once you woke up.
SORE. Your entire body was SORE. It felt almost as bad as when you'd first gotten here, sleeping by the saloon, your legs crooked and your spine stiff as you barely forced your eyelids open.
...man, what you wouldn't give to be at a tiny saloon right now.
Alone, of course, earlier into the day with only a few sober folks or older wanderers to chat with. In a bar so tiny that it couldn't even fit a piano. Without the noise and mess that large saloons brought with them. Just having a few drinks, cracking jokes with the same strangers you'd see every visit, catching up with the town and leaving... that sounded comfy...
...you hadn't been to one of those since you'd last seen your parents.
You rolled onto your back to stare at the damp, shoddy ceiling for just a moment. Your eyes quickly demanded that you look right, instead, over at Mary's resting place.
She was sleeping, safe and sound, with your bandage from before wrapped all the way around her waist. The last remnants of last night's tensions left you as you saw her bandage, noticing that it wasn't much bloodier than when you last saw it. Nearer to the wall, opposite her, sleeping next to your old nutberry and propped up by a chair leg, was the plant sprite's child...
...you weren't going to be leaving this room for some time. You could practically feel the bags underneath your eyes dragging the rest of your face down with them. A few hours of rest couldn't hurt.
What <span class="mu-i">type</span> of rest, though...?
>You could go for some relaxing conversation. In place of a saloon... there was always Steele. It wouldn't hurt to inform him of the new arrival, either.
>Spend your day documenting said newcomer as much as you could... informally. Just draft up notes and ideas for now. You don't have the energy to write an entire entry for it like you did the rest of the creatures you've studied.
>Do some general reading. You haven't checked the news in ages. Your naturalist books remain untouched despite how eager you were to read them. Laying in bed for a few hours and catching up on things seemed like a good idea...
>Write-in.