"...that's just bizarre."

"Tell me about it. Oh, if you don't die, at least it seems not to cause much long-term harm."

"How do you not die of it?"

"You get out when you feel the first signs. Or the Neuroi who was making it gets blown up. And then it starts getting better almost immediately, and you're just left with whatever else you picked up while you were weak and sensitive, and a painful headache."

She shudders. "I'm sorry."

She rubs the back of her neck. "Death was never very far away. But staring it in the face, the very air against you... Yeah."

She nods. "...do you want a hug?"

"...Sure." Hug.

She's still a youngish teen, for all that she's so very magic, and fit. Kind of small.

So smol.

She lets go. "We should sleep, yeah?"

Gosh, there's feelings going on here. Her voice cracks as she agrees, "Yeah."

Bed time, then.

Gren curls up a bit. Rest is important, you sleep whenever you can. But she'll probably wake up throughout the night if there are noises, especially voices.

Kaede will sleep soundly through the night, and the door's soundproof.

Gren wakes up at the crack of dawn and - quietly - goes to have another bath and change into one of those sets of clean clothes.

Zzzzzzzzz

Let's not wake her up.

She grabs a couple of coins for a snack and writes a note, Out jogging, back within one hour, and sneakily says hi to Vasil on the way down.

There is a sign hanging around Vasil's neck.

...Which she attempts to read, of course.

Hello! This golem is very beautiful, but worn out. I'd love to restore it for you!

And there's an address at the bottom.

"Vasil, you saw who left this I'm guessing. They seem nice?"

"This unit is not sure how to gauge the answer to that question."

"Good point. I think I'll go wake up Kaede for this, be right back."

She takes the sign and waits a bit for a response she doesn't really expect before going and doing that.

Yeah no answer.

She blinks a few times, yawns, then says, "Good morning."

"Morning. Sorry to wake you - um - someone left this on Vasil."