"Good plan."

Everyone is doing fine and a chunk of them want to turn in early because it's been a long day.

Yes it has.

Tiro stays up for a while longer, studying the diagrams in his recipe books, and then he flops in the grass outside to sleep.

Aduva finds him in the morning.

"We could have spared a mattress, you know."

"If I'd wanted a mattress I would've hauled one up!"

"Ah, you just didn't want one. Perfectly valid."

"It didn't seem worth the bother. Anyway! Did you all sleep okay?"

"There were some leftover nerves but basically, yeah."

"That seems mostly good!"

"Fondai woke up, saw no one was on guard, and kinda freaked out before she remembered where we were, but I got her calmed down and back to sleep."

He nods.

"I hope she'll be okay. I hope they'll--we'll--all be okay."

"I hope so too."

"'We' included you too."

"...Thanks."

"You're welcome."

He smiles slightly.

Hmm should she tell him he's cute when he smiles no they're both pretty traumatized now is probably not a good time to initiate flirting.

Tiro has no idea what she is thinking!

Good. That would obviate the point of her deciding not to verbalize her thoughts.

"Anything in particular that should be accomplished today?"

"I keep having trouble answering that question, it's weird. Uh - I guess I should work on construction more, what else was I going to look up - needles and thread, yeah. Those."

"Can you look stuff up without Delsmiar providing more words?"

"I mean, not nearly as well, but yeah. I read through the recipe books a few times and make a bunch of guesses about what looks like it might be the thing I want and then try them all and see how close I was and repeat if necessary."

"Cool."

"It's kinda fun! And usually doesn't explode unless I fuck it up!"