>>5437497>>5437397>>5437391>>5437498>>5437629>>5437702>>5437703You don't want to leave behind the people you've helped, but it should only be a temporary thing you expect. As well, there's hope that you could further help the needy here in Eindward if you could communicate with the leadership in charge, and stir their sympathies. Accepting the summons of the knight then, you are escorted past the walls and within the town proper, afforded lodging in the family home of one of the noble house's bannermen. They probably weren't sure what to expect of some Namari woman staying with them, but by the end of the day your beauty and charm have earned your welcome.
Although in the physical sense you can appreciate the comfortable accommodations this lesser noble family can provide, it opens your eyes to the disparity between the privileged, and the common folk outside the walls. Well it's not like these people have some opulent palace, even the nicest residences you've seen here are relatively small and sparse, but the point is they have a house alone to their family and behind the safety of the walls. When humans both high and low suffer so much in these times, you would have hoped that everyone's doors were open in town to all those in need. If not for shelter or sustenance, then at the very least for safety from the enemies beyond.
But then, from what you understand of the governing system of humans in this time, part of the method of control is the stratification between high and low. If the people overall are used to, accept and support this system, then it doesn't seem much of your concern... as a goddess of love, at least.
<span class="mu-b">"Goodness! You are a beauty are you not? They told me about the pretty foreign girl, but I had not imagined... manners, I am Lady Swifthawk, wife of the Lord of Eindward."</span> an older woman, more finely dressed than others you've seen, makes herself known to you this evening.
<span class="mu-r">"Zafira... I've got no reputation to speak of."</span>
<span class="mu-b">"No need to be modest dear, we have heard much of you these days passed!"</span>
What follows is unexpected, but suits you just fine, as you essentially work your way up the chain of notice over the coming days. Not even by your choice or action, simply your enchanting nature. Although you had been led to believe that it was the local lord you would be meeting with, as you learned instead it was just one of his advisors first. Which makes sense if you think about it, gaining attention or not, it's unlikely that the ruler of these people would so easily or so soon meet with some lowborn foreign refugee woman. Each day though you are visited and investigated by someone farther up the hierarchy of the noble house, as more and more people come to either recognize your importance or are taken by your beauty. You even suffer a proposal or two of relations with admirers. Noble folks so enamored with you that they seek to have you for themselves, nothing new to you of course.
