She's still not clear on this 'bathing out of a bucket' thing, but she's gotten jolted out of being too stunned to try, at least. She doesn't get very clean, but she's better than she was. She looks around for a change of clothes.

Yup. Vaayo left her some clothes with the towels, they seem to have been previously owned by someone at some point but they've been washed since then.

That's fine. Secondhand clothes are usually softer than new, anyway. She gets dressed and gathers up her things and goes to look for Vaayo.

Here he is, waiting for her, glad to see she figured everything out okay.

More or less okay, anyway. Now what?

If she'll follow him they can go back to that building.

Follow follow.

Only a few of the kids are staying the night. There's room for Dosk to take one of the beds.

That's a little odd, but she's not complaining.

She's not really sleepy, though. Are there any books around?

There aren't any books around.

Disappointing.

She spends a few hours working on a transcription golem program, instead. She was most of the way through designing one, before, and she doesn't have her notes, but she expects it to go much faster the second time anyway. And then she sleeps.

It gets chilly by morning.

People start getting up and moving around early.

That wakes her. She spends a few moments figuring out where she is, and then rolls over and tries to go back to sleep - surely they can't expect her to be up yet, right, they must have an early shift or something.

When it's clear that she's awake, they leave her alone, but they don't bother to keep any quieter than they would otherwise.

Fine.

Breakfast?

A woman brings over some potatoes, cooked this time, and a small child. The child isn't breakfast but the potatoes are, and so are some fresh apricots and some more of the same kind of cheese from yesterday.

Yeah, all right.

She feeds herself and her pets and watches to see what everyone else is doing.

Vaayo watches everyone else like he's hungry for the sight of them. The woman who brought over the food drops off the child and leaves.

When he's done eating, Vaayo offers Dosk a wool hat.

She is very skeptical of the wool hat. She takes it, but doesn't put it on.

Well, it'll be too warm for it in a couple hours anyway, it's not winter, she probably won't get dangerously cold before it warms up.

The older children and Vaayo and Gari head out to go do things. Not all together, they all seem to have different plans for the day.

She's awake enough, once she's done eating: she goes over her notes and gets back to work on the wagon.

After a few minutes outside, she goes back for the hat.

After not too long, Vaayo brings her some milk. It's lukewarm like it was in a cow recently.

She's already engrossed enough in her work that it takes a while for her to notice him. She's pleased to see him when she does, though, and thanks him for the milk.

He thanks her for the automaton.

She's pleased at that. 

She points at the sun, then at the spot on the horizon where it sets, and then where it rises, and to where it'll be in the afternoon, lateish, and then waggles her hand in the gesture they've used for 'maybe'. Then another sunset and sunrise and late morning, and then she pats the wagon and grins.