Chapter 132 - Just ruminations
As was becoming relatively common for Scarlett these days, she currently found herself sitting beside Arlene on the porch in Freymeadow, resting after another practice session with her magic.
She glanced over at the raven-haired woman who, as usual, had her attention focused on the book in her lap.
Over a week had passed in the outside world since Gaven returned with the [Memory of the Covenant], and it had probably been the calmest week yet that Scarlett had experienced since ending up in this body. She’d used the time both to get some extra work and chores done as well as to finish whatever preparations were left for the heist. Any further dungeon excursions had been delayed for the time being, though, since she didn’t want to leave the Freybrook area until all of this was over.
To Arlene, it would seem like Scarlett and Rosa had arrived here in Freymeadow the day before, but their current visit was actually the second iteration of the loop just this past week. The fact that the woman continued denying Scarlett’s request to be taken in as a disciple still hadn’t changed, even with her current progress. Despite that, Arlene helped in her own strange—and somewhat infuriating—ways, so it wasn’t too bad.
It irked her slightly to think about how much faster things would have gone if the woman was actually trying to teach her for real, though.
Turning her head, Scarlett looked out over Freymeadow’s village square. Rosa was sitting with most of the local kids on the wooden platform at the center of the square, playing away on her klert as a few of the children performed some odd dances that Scarlett could only assume the bard had taught them.
Allyssa, Shin, and Fynn had all appeared a little perplexed about the sudden lull in activities they’d had this last week, but as with most things, Rosa had taken it in stride and seemed to make the most of it. Both back in Freybrook and here in Freymeadow. Scarlett had heard the woman had taken to holding minor concerts for the mansion staff in the evenings, which were quite well received if what Garside told her was true.
Although, if what she’d heard about the content of some of those concerts was also true, then she might need to have a talk with Rosa about what were appropriate topics to cover…
She shook her head, letting her thoughts wander as she watched the children’s excited faces.
In a way, Scarlett wished that the time they could spend here in Freymeadow wasn’t limited. Not only because it would give her a lot more time to practice her magic, but because it would have been nice to just stay here for however long she wanted and not have to do anything whenever she felt like it. Pretending like the outside world didn’t exist at times sounded nice.
She sat there in silence for a while.
This upcoming plan involving the Countess and Gaven was different from anything she had done before. Unlike when she had dealt with the Hallowed Cabal, there were a lot more unknown factors at play this time. Not only that, but most of the actual work had to be left to other players.