| Estel had been with the healers for some time now. She could feel herself become stronger every day now that she was given proper food and rest. She started to like them a bit better, had become more cooperative when the wound on her head was treated and started to help them out a bit even by helping them making the beds for patients. It made her a little bit sad that she was doing so well, because once she was recovered, where would she go? She possessed nothing and no matter how much she thought about it she couldn’t remember her early days, couldn’t remember if she had any family or a home to return to.
Silently she hoped that she could stay in Cove where everybody was being so nice to her and where the food was so tasty that her mouth would water only thinking about it. Another reason, and the most important one why she wanted to stay, was because she had a friend in Cove, her first and only friend. Every day she looked forward to his visit and enjoyed the time they were spending together.
He had taken her out to see the town and introduced her to other nice people, Hoagie and Perrin and Carlotta. He also had continued to bring her food and one of his friends had given her a jar of honey that she had really enjoyed. She had enjoyed it so much, that her dress needed to be washed and was replaced by JT with a new dress.
“Shall we walk in the Forest? Or…?”
“Or…?”
JT shuffled a bit and Estel lifted a brow. “Whatever you’d like to do.”
“I want to do everything!” she smiled. “But… I don’t know where to start.”
“The beginning is usually a good place.” He smiled back at her. “What is the first thing you want to do?”
Estel sighed.
“What’s wrong, Estel?”
“I can’t think of something to start with. Walking around with you is what I like most. Where I go when you are there does not matter. What I do does not matter too when you are there. I am glad to be with my friend.”
Estel curled up in her bed at the healers wrapping the sheets tight around her. She was free now and safe. She would repay the kindness of the Covians somehow and she would do whatever she could do so they would allow her to stay in Cove. She would make a living for herself here… close to her friend JT.
When the healers checked up on her that night, they did not find her sleeping restless and afraid but instead she was sleeping calmly with a smile on her face. |