I wake up and feel a warm comforting feeling around myself. I open my eyes and stretch my arms, rejuvenating them after a long time of sleeping.

I look at my state of mind and for the first time, I am fully awake. I observe the room I have been sleeping in and look out the window to check the general time.

The sun is shining through the window at about the peak of the sky so it must be about noon. I get myself off of the sleeping bag on the carpeted floor and walk to the door. I open the door and enter the hallway, walking down it as well. As I reach the front door a voice from the house stops me.

“ Come on, won’t you stay for just a tad longer? You must be hungry after all this time.” Reiner’s mother asks as I approach the front door.

I follow her into the kitchen and sit down in a chair, waiting in awkward silence. After a bit Remier’s mother comes back to the table with a plate full of sandwiches. Once she places them down I pick one up and almost just scarf it down like a ravenous beast I stop myself, remembering that I am no longer in the wilderness and need to have manners when I eat.

I recall my low knowledge of manners and try to follow them to my best ability. I slowly bring the sandwich to my face and take a small bite out of it, remembering to chew with my mouth closed. I continue this until the sandwich is fully eaten. I thank her and start to walk to the door, opening it and walking outside.

As I step outside I reflexively squint my eyes at the bright sunlight shining into my pupils. After my eyes adjust to the sunlight I look around the small village, well actually now that I am able to see it more clearly it appears to not be a village, but a small town. I appear to be in a residential part of the town so I look for a road or path to help guide me to the center of the village.

I find a central road after a couple blocks of walking so I start my way down it. Eventually I arrive in a central plaza and here I can see all sorts of establishments in it. I try to look for an inn or hotel to stay at for the night and find one.

I walk up to the hotel and find a front door to it and walk through it. I see a person at the front desk, most likely the receptionist.

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“ Hello, welcome to the Resert Hotel how may I help you?”

“ I would like to get a room to stay in please”

“ That will be 50 freedom credits a night ma’am”

I then inconveniently remember just at this time that I am dead broke and cannot not afford a room right now. Embarrassed, I run out the door and back into the plaza. I think about ways to gather money and at the same time have a place to live and come to the conclusion that I will have to look for a farm to work at.

I start down a random path in search of a farm that is offering jobs. I walk and walk and walk with no success in even finding the farming district until finally I have found it, the farming district.

Now all that is left is to find a place offering up jobs.

“ Ahh hahahahaha this is going to take going to take forever again, isn’t it.”

Ten, twenty, thirty minutes go by with no luck until, after an hour of searching I find a farm offering up jobs. The home is made of wood and the farm behind seems to not be doing so well but I have to take what I can get.

I walk up to the door and knock on it, waiting for the owner to answer. After a bit of waiting I see the door crack open and out comes a old woman.

“ Who are you and what do you want?!” She says sounding annoyed.

“ Well I came for the job and saw that you were also offering a place to stay and hospitality with it.”

“ Ok then if you were going to work here I legally have to let you know what you will get payed per day.”

“ You will be payed five freedom credits a day and that is it because you will also be getting food and lodging with it”

I want to snap back at her for being so rude but I stop myself before I lose my job because after all I need this. I follow her into her house and into the main area.

“ follow me and I will show to your room”

I follow her down the hallway and into a room that is most likely her guest room.

“ This is where you will be staying, now follow me and I will show you around the farm.”

I follow her through the door, down the hallway, and finally to the back door. She opens up the back door and I get a view of the farm. She continues walking and gets to a shed that is off to the side and opens the doors.

“ This is the shed where you will find all of the tools you need for farming”

She closes the shed doors before I get a chance to look at all the tools. We continue to go around the run down farm until we are finally at the end of it. I would probably have had to get to work right here and now but it is getting dark outside and approaching night so we go back indoors.

I head back down the hall to the guest room and go inside to try to get some good sleep before my first day on the job.

I tuck myself into the bed and drift off into the void of sleep.