Home sweet home? ((Open))

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"Yes, I have. I have to help with the construction, because lets face it, you don't want me in kitchen, or your lunch might be the death of you." She smiled. She really was a bad cook.


Layla raised an eyebrow at the critters. "Friends of yours?" She asked in a friendly manner

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Kori came up then and bent, letting the two seemingly fire-y creatures scamper up her arms. "Sorry, they are our little friends. We call them Flarrets. They just appeared in our forge one day, so...we kept them."

Kaleb meanwhile laughed, "Well, good to hear that you like construction. Care to go out for a bite to eat," he gestured to include all of them.

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Layla looked at the sky. It couldn't hurt.

"I suppose I could use some food. What did you have in mind?"

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"There is this place, just a little outside of Obsidian that serves some awesome food, if you want, we can take you there," Kori said with a smile as Kaleb began locking things up.

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"That sounds wonderful." Layla rubbed a sore spot on her arm and noticed her fingertips. "Do you have some place where I could wash up my hands before we go?" She said showing what you could see of her hands around the cut off gloves, to covered in dirt and mud.

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Kori nodded and called back for her brother to bring the basin up with some water and a cloth. After a moment Kaleb came carrying a small metal tub filled with water. It was cold but there was a bit of soap and rag for Layla to use.

"I hope that's good," he murmured, tipping his head.

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"That will be perfect." She said, she unstrapped her gloves and pulled them off setting them to the side.

She dipped her hands in the bowl a very carefully washed them. She seemed to be avoiding running her hands over the Earth signs on either hand as much as possible. Then quickly put her gloves back on.

"Thank you. Shall we?"

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"Yes," Kori smiled and, after both Kaleb and Layla left, she shut the door behind them and locked it. Hopefully, that should be fine for keeping things safe.

Once all three were out - five, if you included the odd little fire ferrets - Kaleb took the lead, bringing them all to a little cafe. "Here we are..." he waved a hand to let the ladies go in first.

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Once they were seated, Layla ordered a simple sandwich.
"So, what brought you two back to Obsidian?"

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"Well," Kori started after getting a small salad, "At first we were only toying with the idea of coming back to the area. Just to see the area again, visit home, what not. Then we saw the fliers asking for helpers to rebuild Obsidian."

Nodding, Kaleb picked up when she paused, "So, with that in mind, we closed our shop for a while to come and help as needed."

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"That's very generous of you. " Layla smiled. "I just can't believe that no one has thought to start this before."

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The both of them remained silent, eating for a while.

The two fire ferrets skittered about here and there, taking things in and greeting others.

"Well," Kaleb said slowly. "I am in both agreement with you and not. Humontis is a peaceful city, country, really, and while this area is run down, the people are also rather peaceful about it..."

Kori nodded but then added, "Not that that is a good thing."

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Layla's voice and steady and calm, very business like. "But that's just my point. Good people don't deserve to be ignored when their home's are falling apart and the buildings around them threaten to collapse at any moment." She took a drink of her water then continued. "And hopefully the re-build will drive away those who think this might be any easy place to take over once they see that no section of the city is going to go unnoticed."

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This received warm smiles and nods with just a simple statement, "Good to hear that." From their postures and now visibly relaxed; it was obvious that they were glad to be hearing what was being said and seeing what was being done.

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"Well, this was very pleasant, thank you." Layla said after they had finished their food and paid for the meal " I hope we are able to find more workers soon, we need the the help. If you have any friends with a useful skill it would be helpful. When this project is done, I have every intention of searching out something else that is long over due to be fixed."