The next morning they met at the appointed spot. Annoce and Zane set up the tables. While Sunny and Jess start taking out the items for sale. Once the tables are set they start grouping items together on them. David adjusts items here and there but is overall happy with how they are put out. “We will be busy as can be once this starts in an hour or so. I know some of you have contests to do today. Now that we are set up you are free to go enjoy yourselves. I will stay here and do the same.” Sunny chuckles at him before kissing his forehead. “Have fun dad. I shall be back in a small while. Annoce and I are going to look at the other booths first.”
He chuckles and nods as they leave him alone with the kender. Sunny and Annoce walk around holding hands to see some of the other wares. He points things out here and there to her. She smiles softly and leans into his side. Now that enough time had passed the shops were open to sale. Sunny sees an herbalist open knowing she is running short on a few items needed to make balms she walks over. Smiling at the keeper she asked, “Do you have willow bark, clove bud, cinnamon bark, and rosemary?” “Yes, we do have those items. How much of each would you like?” the keeper asks. “Two pounds of each if you can spare that much.” Sunnys says softly. The keeper nods and gathers them up for her. “That will be two silver pieces for all of this.” She hands the silver over taking her goods, “Thank you and have a great time.”
Sunny walks back to Annoce with a smile. They walk around for a bit more. Sunny kisses his cheek as he goes to leave her with David. “I am heading for the hunting computation now. I will see you this evening. Be safe until then.” She smiles at him, “I will. Please take care while doing this one. I know some of the other competitors are not always looking when the shoot their bows.” He nods and waves as he walks to the starting area. “He will be fine Sunny. He won't even be seen till he wants to be. Now let us work.” David said. She nods and puts her packages into the spot under the driver's seat and locks it.
Going to behind the table she waits on customers for the rest of the day. Zane and Jess kept an eye on Latsol. They knew if he was left alone things from stalls/shops would go missing and no one would be able to find them. Their group needed to stay on the good side of the law while in this town. Their group had talked about ensuring that he was never alone this trip.
Latsol sulked a bit while walking around. He wanted to go look at the one table by himself but Jess had a hand on him the whole time he was there. Once they left there they took him back to the dwarf. “Here he is, we need to head for a computation. Have fun little friend and play nice.” Zane says while chuckling. Those two headed for hand to hand computation. Latsol sighed and went next to Sunny. Helping her out with the customers some. Though he wanted to be in the crowds, David finished setting up the small blacksmith forge and started on an order he received this morning.
As the day started to wane they let the few customers whom were at the shop know they were closing for the night and would open again in the morning. Once all the things left were packed up they took the cart back to the stables before heading back to the inn for the night. Once there David, Sunny, and Latsol sat down at a table. They were joined shortly by Jess and Zane. Sunny watched for Annoce for a bit as they ate supper. “Do not fret Sunny. Annoce is fine and won't be back till tomorrow eve.” David said having watched Sunny throughout the meal.
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She sighed and nodded without saying a thing. She did not want to spend the night alone but understood that this would sometimes happen. They talked for a bit more before heading to bed. The next morning they met up at the shop. David nodded to the other as he started setting out the items.
Once everything was set Sunny kissed David's cheek and smiled. “I will be back this evening. I am heading for my computation. I hope to place first. We shall see though. Have a good day father.” David chuckled, “I will having Latsol here will be interesting of course.” She laughs and waves goodbye.
The day passed rather uneventfully. Jess and Zane walked around for a bit but came back to the shop. They helped take small orders and sell the rest of the items. Near the end of the day they sold the last arrows and daggers. The orders kept coming. From small to large. There were almost enough orders to keep David and Sunny busy for over a year. David wiped sweat from his brow having worked most of the day at the small forger. He had made a few orders but they needed sharpening. He would do a few before the end of the day so they could be picked up.
He smiled as Sunny walked back to them. She chuckled seeing the orders that needed sharpening. She kissed David's cheek and sat at the grinding wheel. “How long are we staying open today?” she asked. “A few more hours I would say. If you are going to sharpen I will keep making some of the orders. So we maybe do not have as many to take home with us.” he says. She nods and starts working on the one small sword he has finished and ready.
She sharpens four of the six orders that are ready. Standing up and stretching she looks up and sees that the sun is slowly starting to set. She smiles and waits for David to finish his project and lets him know it is time to head back for a meal. He nods and banks the coals for the night. They head to the inn for the night. They have no more wares to sell. They sit and start the meal before Annoce joins them. He is smiling knowing he brought in the biggest catch of the computation. He sits next to Sunny and kisses her cheek. “Hello sweetheart. How have you been?” She laughs softly and leans into him, “I am doing well. Better now that you are back. How was the hunt?”
He smiles and chuckles. “I would say I did well. The results will be out the day after tomorrow. I can help either by selling items or keeping an eye on Latsol.” David chuckles listening to them. “Well we are sold out of items. I would say you would be of better use taking care of Latsol so we may work on the orders.” Annoce nods at this. Latsol just sulks being talked about as if he was not there.
He starts to get up to leave when Zane places a hand on his shoulder and shakes his head. Letting him know he was not going anywhere without someone at his side. He lets out a soft growl of annoyance and sits back down while folding his arms across his chest. Some of the contestants come in complaining of missing items. Some of the items are small but a few are rather large. The group listens and realises that there was a thief somewhere in the town. Their first thought is of course Latsol but they know he has not been to where half of the items were taken from nor did they leave him by himself. They looked at one another and decided to meet up in the morning and talk about this new development.