The work is frankly never-ending, and they were both busy even before the Gallows fell down around their heads.
And today has been a long day for Stephen Strange, tromping all around Kirkwall trying to barter more seeds for the infirmary with vanishingly low returns, feeling a knot of tension sinking into his spine and shoulders. There’s too much to do and not enough hands to do it, and he might have continued on this track, except that he was in town and looked contemplatively through the surviving window of a wine merchant, and some distant distracted thoughts finally clicked together and he made a decision.
Later that evening, the central tower having made it through mostly unscathed, he has a fairly good idea where to find the Provost. Unlike other times he’s swung by — more reports for Cosima’s desk, requests for supplies, rundowns of whatever injuries their local hired hands have tripped into while working on reconstruction — today he’s carrying a bottle of red wine.
“You need a break,” Stephen announces, without even waiting for an acknowledgment or a hello. “Also, because with everything happening— I realised we missed your birthday this year.”
action; also some reasonable amount of time after the attack
And today has been a long day for Stephen Strange, tromping all around Kirkwall trying to barter more seeds for the infirmary with vanishingly low returns, feeling a knot of tension sinking into his spine and shoulders. There’s too much to do and not enough hands to do it, and he might have continued on this track, except that he was in town and looked contemplatively through the surviving window of a wine merchant, and some distant distracted thoughts finally clicked together and he made a decision.
Later that evening, the central tower having made it through mostly unscathed, he has a fairly good idea where to find the Provost. Unlike other times he’s swung by — more reports for Cosima’s desk, requests for supplies, rundowns of whatever injuries their local hired hands have tripped into while working on reconstruction — today he’s carrying a bottle of red wine.
“You need a break,” Stephen announces, without even waiting for an acknowledgment or a hello. “Also, because with everything happening— I realised we missed your birthday this year.”