0.9 - The Baker's Daughter
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You make do with a quick wash, to clean the sweat and dirt off, put on a clean pair of clothes, tie your hair back with a handy strip of cloth, and then head out into the Bakery to be the dutiful daughter and help your parents. You had almost decided to meditate, but really, what does meditate do for you? Does it help you parents? Does it further your goals of doing...something. Does it help with your new learnings of face punching?
You do not know. Why would you? You have not read further into the book, and you have not meditated. The benefits and drawbacks are hidden from you, for now.
Ah well, you have been kind of neglecting the bakery since that first fight, when you found that odd book on Sage's. You are only half certain the book is for you though. Why would you be a Sage? You're a baker's daughter. Not...not a learned person. Not a martial ar- oh, you kind of are one of those now.
Hunh. Right, helping with the bakery. It's not exactly hard work, or intellectually stimulating. Go here, carry that there. That sort of thing. Father in the back, making things, and mother in the front, selling things, and you in the middle running back and forth between back and front, front and back, carrying trays of freshly cooked foodstuffs, or empty trays to be refilled.
As you dart here, there, and everywhere, you pick up snippets of conversation:
"...did you see her....fight….it was hilarious…."
"...did you see…fire…."
"...they...back...endangered...all...."
Well.
Well.
You seem the talk of the town, block, whatever, and you are not sure if it is in a good way, or a bad way. No one mentions if there has been any action taken against the gangs' hideout, which...kind of worries you. Or maybe they are taking their time? Doing it all quiet like so as not to give away anything?
Or...or is the subprefect in league with the...with the...filth?
You hate that thought, you do. For one, he was...nice, and for another, it would totally shatter your belief in a just and fair society. For yet another, it means you are back to square one and will have to find the gang boss and punch his face in.
And...and you are still not very good at face punching!
It's only father's sharp rebuke that reminds you that you have things you still need to do, that gets you moving from the spot you had stopped at as your thoughts all collided and, well, caused you to stop in the first place. You're not...you still do not know what to do, but as your eyes are open to the potentially bad fates that can happen, you notice a few things now. Like father's heavy wok, which he never uses for cooking because the thing is just too heavy to cook with. Mother clutches the broom handle a bit too oddly, for someone just sweeping up, and when she is doing other things, it is never far away.
Some of the customers are carrying truncheons, or blades, or have a new, wary step to their gait now. The district is geared up, ready for a fight, you think...no, you know. Now that you are paying attention to it, you can feel the tension in the air. The ripples of minor grievances being poked and prodded and brought out to blame someone for the way the district is unrestful.
When they are not blaming you in whispers, that is.
You hear tales of a monkey man -what is that even you do not- sighted sitting, kneeling, in the pond in the park. You hear tell of a lady of silk seen floating through the district beside yours. You hear that Sages of all stripes have been sighted, more and more in the countryside. In the city.
And all through this, you can feel the Tao tingle in...you think it is excitement. With purpose. And you feel your own , burgeoning Way start to nudge you. Nudge you where you do not know, but you must trust that it has your interests at heart. That you will not lose yourself, that you will not lose your family, in all this.
Maybe...just maybe….you really are a Sage.
So, what do you want to do now? You don't have a lot of time, since Resplendent Lotus will be sleeping shortly.
[X] Go the the public bathhouse to soak
[X] Go sleep
[X] Read book
[X] Meditate
Of the options, only meditate is the subpar one. You just do not have the time needed to properly meditate, until you fall asleep.
Also, just to say, meditate is how you rank up your Sage-ness. Like, it is not a quick rank up, and it won't put you above a letter grade everytime it you take it, but it does help you be more awesome. It lets you..digest what you have learned, in books, in practice, and in thought.
Just saying. ;P
You do not know. Why would you? You have not read further into the book, and you have not meditated. The benefits and drawbacks are hidden from you, for now.
Ah well, you have been kind of neglecting the bakery since that first fight, when you found that odd book on Sage's. You are only half certain the book is for you though. Why would you be a Sage? You're a baker's daughter. Not...not a learned person. Not a martial ar- oh, you kind of are one of those now.
Hunh. Right, helping with the bakery. It's not exactly hard work, or intellectually stimulating. Go here, carry that there. That sort of thing. Father in the back, making things, and mother in the front, selling things, and you in the middle running back and forth between back and front, front and back, carrying trays of freshly cooked foodstuffs, or empty trays to be refilled.
As you dart here, there, and everywhere, you pick up snippets of conversation:
"...did you see her....fight….it was hilarious…."
"...did you see…fire…."
"...they...back...endangered...all...."
Well.
Well.
You seem the talk of the town, block, whatever, and you are not sure if it is in a good way, or a bad way. No one mentions if there has been any action taken against the gangs' hideout, which...kind of worries you. Or maybe they are taking their time? Doing it all quiet like so as not to give away anything?
Or...or is the subprefect in league with the...with the...filth?
You hate that thought, you do. For one, he was...nice, and for another, it would totally shatter your belief in a just and fair society. For yet another, it means you are back to square one and will have to find the gang boss and punch his face in.
And...and you are still not very good at face punching!
It's only father's sharp rebuke that reminds you that you have things you still need to do, that gets you moving from the spot you had stopped at as your thoughts all collided and, well, caused you to stop in the first place. You're not...you still do not know what to do, but as your eyes are open to the potentially bad fates that can happen, you notice a few things now. Like father's heavy wok, which he never uses for cooking because the thing is just too heavy to cook with. Mother clutches the broom handle a bit too oddly, for someone just sweeping up, and when she is doing other things, it is never far away.
Some of the customers are carrying truncheons, or blades, or have a new, wary step to their gait now. The district is geared up, ready for a fight, you think...no, you know. Now that you are paying attention to it, you can feel the tension in the air. The ripples of minor grievances being poked and prodded and brought out to blame someone for the way the district is unrestful.
When they are not blaming you in whispers, that is.
You hear tales of a monkey man -what is that even you do not- sighted sitting, kneeling, in the pond in the park. You hear tell of a lady of silk seen floating through the district beside yours. You hear that Sages of all stripes have been sighted, more and more in the countryside. In the city.
And all through this, you can feel the Tao tingle in...you think it is excitement. With purpose. And you feel your own , burgeoning Way start to nudge you. Nudge you where you do not know, but you must trust that it has your interests at heart. That you will not lose yourself, that you will not lose your family, in all this.
Maybe...just maybe….you really are a Sage.
So, what do you want to do now? You don't have a lot of time, since Resplendent Lotus will be sleeping shortly.
[X] Go the the public bathhouse to soak
[X] Go sleep
[X] Read book
[X] Meditate
Of the options, only meditate is the subpar one. You just do not have the time needed to properly meditate, until you fall asleep.
Also, just to say, meditate is how you rank up your Sage-ness. Like, it is not a quick rank up, and it won't put you above a letter grade everytime it you take it, but it does help you be more awesome. It lets you..digest what you have learned, in books, in practice, and in thought.
Just saying. ;P
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