first steps in a new home - Wen Qing 001

[radishlobbyist]

WHO: Wen Qing and OPEN
WHEN: Catch-all log for arrival and the days of settling in
WHAT: Various prompts around town (including continuations of tdm threads), and a dinner not!date - or choose your own adventure!
WHERE: Gazin and woods
WARNINGS: None so far

Arrival

One moment, Wen Qing is in a cold and damp dungeon cell clinging to her brother and desperately wishing she were anywhere else. Then, one bright light later, she is decidedly not. The crossroads at Gazin and even the sudden transport don’t bother her so much but try as she might, her frantic search in the woods and town just aren’t going to bring a lead to Wen Ning’s whereabouts.

The first thing Wen Qing notices when walking into the town of Gazin is that the people are utterly incomprehensible to her. That makes for some fun wandering around, her in her stained and dirty red robes, looking too pale and thin after months in the dungeons making a spectacle of herself.

Fortunately, she soon runs into a man named Bhalris, who uses a technique she doesn’t know to permit her to understand the locals. It's back to running around town then, calling the name of her brother Wen Ning with ever greater desperation as she hurries through streets and back alleys. "Where are you, Wen Ning? Ah Ning!"

In town

With this, things start going better. Well. Somewhat. Once she finds the inn, Wen Qing can be witnessed arguing with the innkeeper, pleading, “But I’m going to pay you! I just don’t have any coins on me! I arrived with nothing but the clothes on my back. But I'm going to earn money. And I’m not going to be here for long anyway, I need to return home. I just have to figure out where here is and then I’ll be gone.”

She does, in fact, quickly find a job at the apothecary, and cheaper lodgings above the store along with it. She can now be found working at the apothecary and selling its wares at the weekly market as well, as well as searching the woods around Gazin to gather ingredients. These are all just stepping stones, though. Her brother can't be found here, which means whatever brought her here brought only her - thus, she needs to find her way back to Yiling, a place nobody here has ever heard of.

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closed to Jiang Cheng

[radishlobbyist]

Following their meeting in the smithy, Wen Qing goes to the market and then spends the rest of the day alternatively antsy and irritated with herself for being antsy.. During her afternoon shift in the apothecary, she spills jars twice and when she excuses herself early, her boss looks insultingly relieved to get her clumsy hands away from his stocks.

While she only rents a single room at the apothecary, she is allowed to use the kitchen as she likes and today she makes good use of it, cooking a makeshift meal of rice, soup, vegetables, and filled dumplings, while she prepares everything for the fish he promised to bring. It won't taste like home as too many ingredients have to be substituted but it's closer than what the tavern offers, for sure. Good enough for a peace offering anyway, she decides. After some hesitation she changes into a clean red overdress to go with her white underdress, leaving her red Wen robes locked away. A reminder of her bloodline might be enough to shatter the fragile peace.