[ If you give everything you have to the inn, then what's left for Sumina?
That's just it, isn't it? The question that she has been made to reckon with since coming here, where she has no responsibilities, no duties, no... identity. Her days have felt awfully empty without the need to be up to tend to guests, without a long list of to-dos, and so she has filled them instead with "research," with the notion that even if she's not at the inn, she can still contribute to it. It's an emptiness that she still doesn't know what to do with.
...But it helps, that Winter is here. His presence had always seemed a steadying force amongst his fellow Bluecloaks whenever their stays overlapped - how funny, that she'd never thought he might be a steadying presence for her. ]
I know. We are... A tight-knit family, with a few exceptions. I know that everyone has each other's best interests at heart... There's something else, too.
Normally, when someone strikes out on their own and starts traveling, they also... contribute something, to the inn. Something that builds on what our forebears laid out. I'll... never be an adventurer, Winter. Even if I trained myself in other arcane or martial arts and became capable of holding my own, I simply lack the desire. So I've always thought... That taking over the inn, so that the others can travel to their heart's content... That would be my contribution.
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That's just it, isn't it? The question that she has been made to reckon with since coming here, where she has no responsibilities, no duties, no... identity. Her days have felt awfully empty without the need to be up to tend to guests, without a long list of to-dos, and so she has filled them instead with "research," with the notion that even if she's not at the inn, she can still contribute to it. It's an emptiness that she still doesn't know what to do with.
...But it helps, that Winter is here. His presence had always seemed a steadying force amongst his fellow Bluecloaks whenever their stays overlapped - how funny, that she'd never thought he might be a steadying presence for her. ]
I know. We are... A tight-knit family, with a few exceptions. I know that everyone has each other's best interests at heart... There's something else, too.
Normally, when someone strikes out on their own and starts traveling, they also... contribute something, to the inn. Something that builds on what our forebears laid out. I'll... never be an adventurer, Winter. Even if I trained myself in other arcane or martial arts and became capable of holding my own, I simply lack the desire. So I've always thought... That taking over the inn, so that the others can travel to their heart's content... That would be my contribution.