The Tavern Of Hope

[collinsullivan 46]

A gust of wind blows into your eyes and they burn. You hear a grouse noise and a surge of pain shoots through your stomach. The wind blows again and your eyes are irritated once more, but out from under the trees emerges a person with a hood. At first you think it is a man so you say “hello sir” but the reply is unexpectedly a woman’s voice. Your face turns red as an apple and you develop an excuse, “I have bad eyesight I’m sorry”. The woman giggles a bit and says “why does everyone think Im a man” you reply maybe its your cloak. The woman removes her hood and she has beautiful, flowing, silky, red hair, it blows about in the violent wind and you ask “by any chance do you have any food?”. The woman grins and says “your in luck i own a tavern down the street that way and she gestures her hand to the right”. You being so weary and hungry ask her to take you there and she does.

After walking for a while you come upon a wooden building standing in between two great oak trees. It is rectangular with a bit of a curve in one corner where the door is. You enter the great wooden door and heat, from the torches lighting the room, licks your face and you feel warm. A man standing behind the counter is staring off into the distant farm fields. The woman is still by your side and she says to the man “Luke this man is in need of a hot meal”. There is no reply so she asks the man “Luke are you still with us?” All of a sudden the man blinks and looks to us, “oh yes sorry i am quite tired today i don’t know what has come over me”. The woman says again “this man is in need of a hot meal” and this time the guy behind the counter replies, “ok what can i get for you?”. You take out a sack full of coins and toss it on the countertop, making the coins rattle about, “Ill have 8 loafs of bread and 4 pork chops please”. You sift through the money and give the woman 400 minas. The woman looks at you astonished and says “oh my that is way to much you are a friend now and i will not have you paying that much” She then proceeds to give you back 310 minas. The woman takes a key out from under the countertop and gives it to the man, “I forgot to give you this earlier” The man goes downstairs and returns within a few minutes holding two bags one of which is labeled bread and the other pork. He tosses them on the bar and you take them and put them in your pocket. You then turn around thank the woman by saying “thank you mam” emphasizing the word mam, and open the creaky wooden door. The cold is like a whip, it hits you and you, it is painful and you wish you never had to leave the tavern.

[~ Fiend ~ 611]

(( I'm far too tired. I misread the second time she said "This man is in need of a hot meal" as "This man is need of hot men!". ))

[collinsullivan 46]

(( I'm far too tired. I misread the second time she said "This man is in need of a hot meal" as "This man is need of hot men!". ))

XD

[steelersfan1221 300]

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