Chapter 128: Planning for the Next Step
Elin sat on the bed of the first room them they had rented, which was on the third floor of the inn. Kim stood by the window and Jonas stood by the door. Elin wasn't sure why, but she felt like she shouldn't ask. Neither of them were wearing what could be considered a happy expression, so she didn't think she should say anything at the moment. Especially with what had happened on the road the day before.
Kim looked like she was doing alright now, but Elin couldn't help but still be worried that she hadn't fully recovered from her exhaustion the day before. So many things had happened that her mind was still struggling to make sense of it all.
Maybe she was more tired than she realized herself and that's why she was having trouble making sense of everything, Elin speculated while waiting for Jonas or Kim to start the meeting. She felt comfortable with letting them take the lead, especially since they seemed to understand things, even of this world, better than she did.
Elmo looked like he wasn't sure where to go, as there wasn't a chair in the room, but he didn't look like he could find a place to settle, and almost looked a little lost. Which as Elin thought about it, he had been kind of looking like that since he woke up after having fallen unconscious for reasons Elin still didn't understand, even after having everyone explain it to her separately.
Just what was 'hyperventilating' anyway? If she hadn't seen that word when she'd used her Assess spell to see what was wrong, she'd have thought that they were making the word up. Not only had she never encountered it before, but she hadn't even heard of it happening. How could breathing to rapidly cause someone to fall unconscious?
Despite that, she didn't want to dwell on the subject, but it still nagged the back of her mind. Like a dog that didn't want to let go of the bone it had gotten, even when it was another dog that it was typically on friendly terms with.
"Okay, I'm pretty sure no one else is near us," Jonas said, startling Elin. "So, first, we're not going to stay in this inn for more than a day. I have serious doubts that we'd be able to work off a room to stay here, so we'll have to move on after this. We're also now running low on funds, so we'll have to figure something out soon or we'll have difficulty buying food to eat."
"We could always find ways to earn money," Kim remarked, looking at Jonas like she was trying to push him down with her gaze.
"We could, however, we also can't stay her for very long. Most employers would prefer people to stay for a much longer period of time than we can expect for us to stay," Jonas replied. "Even if we could stay at this inn for a week, I have doubts that circumstances wouldn't force us to move on before that week would be up."