Silver Blood

Chapter 6

      The house looked much better than before, Snow took a deep breath, and she was wearing her brown apron, her dusty shirt, and even the pants, so she won't get her outfit much dirty. She had cut off the vines and fixed the house, she had planted a few saplings around the house to make it look nicer. She heard some people snicker behind, but she didn't care much about it.

She went toward the town square, to get some food, and she saw ladies talking to each other on a bench. One of the ladies saw her and began to greet her, "hello Snow, I heard that you are a Silver Blood from Windstrine is that true?"

"I travelled to Windstrine for a stay, didn't like staying there, so I went here," she told them.

"Oh, that's why you have their accent; you must have lived there for a long time!"

"Not long about 3 months, I always talked like this," she said nervously.

The ladies looked at each other and started laughing, "Oh well sweetie, since you are here, why not hang out more often, we had seen you carrying planks, nails, hammers and sometimes even logs, those aren't your crafts, leave it to the men."

"No, I've seen her even carrying a bag of bricks on her shoulder even!" One of the ladies said she was carrying a fan, fanning herself.

Snow became embarrassed; "I am going to leave for a moment..." she stood up, and walked away from the ladies, those ladies were left there dumbfounded.

"What's up with her?" a lady asked to another.

"Perhaps she just shy?" a lady with a red ribbon said.

"I think she just doesn't like talking to people," the lady with a red dress said.

"She doesn't look like other girls in our town, she has silver hair or white hair."

"That's our Snow darling, which is literally snow hair."

Snow bought some soup and sat down to eat it. She drank it and felt full and she went home by the time she was done.

The day wasn't very hot, it was a bit cloudy but there was still sunlight, she went back to her home, and started sweeping dust off and cleaning her house from cobwebs, it was like a full clean up that day. She became very tired that night and fell asleep quickly.

The moment she woke up, she had to start working again, and she went into the woods taking berries and apples and ate them for breakfast. She wrote a schedule on which day she will fix and which day will she go to the guild and check whether she is going to get hired.

That day she went to the guild after putting on her gears, and by the time she went inside the guild she could see that the guild wasn't as full as it was last week, so she felt odd usually it was full that she struggled to wait to see the guild master.

"Hello Snow, somebody hired you, and probably hired like 30 more people from the guild."

She went to see the guild master and checked the paper he gave her, "so it is basically asking for a group hunt isn't it?" she said. "Well, he just stated he wanted to hire 30 people, you are the 27th if you accept it and we need another 3..."

"How much do I get paid?"

"Not as much as Robert would give you, only 50 silver," he said. "50? I could barely survive a week with 50 silver; I need like a gold to at least survive a week..."

"That's the problem, even I said it was kind of unfair to hire 30 people and paid them this, but lately people been desperate for money, prices been rising up..."