[Open] Learning a new life

[theexile]

WHO: Kattrin and whoever
WHAT: Kattrin is getting used to being in the lowlands but there are still some things that are odd. Some time in the daily life of...
WHEN: Throughout the month
WHERE: Various locations
NOTES: Warning for talk about past injuries

A. Strange Gifts

Within the hold it had been common to trade with other cultures for things. The dwarves and Orlesians had been the two most common. However, things had been different since coming here. It seemed the most common form of trade involved coin. She didn't fully understand it but she'd learned to find ways to get this coin in order to obtain food and supplies for her daily life.

So it had been a surprise to her when she'd instead received a book for healing the child of a woman. Apparently she'd felt bad for not having the coin to give for the treatment and this had been all she'd had. Kattrin had eventually accepted it but now she sat by a wall near the docks (fennec sleeping in her pack but tail poking out) looking at it. Just turning it over and over. She wasn't even aware of what it said for she couldn't read at all herself.

Probably not the normal reaction to a book by any means, right?

B. Phantom Pains

Months ago she'd left her hold. At the time she'd still been treating her injuries, healing her back even as she was running. It hadn't been easy and there were times when she wondered if she'd done it correctly. She was sure she hadn't today as she rolled her shoulders uncomfortably while wandering the market for supplies she could buy.

Eventually though someone bumped into her and jostled the staff on her back. Though there was technically no pain it was almost as if some memory wished for that to not be the case. She gave a little hiss and had to mentally remind herself that the scars there weren't actually hurting.

"...It is nothing. I am not hurt." It was unclear if that was to someone who saw what happened and looked her way or if it was to the person who bumped her and now was concerned they'd caused injury. Either way it had to be said. Sometimes memories and phantoms of the past were just...inconvenient.