Wander

The lady in white

"Hold it", the gatekeeper warned as he blocked the gate with his pike.

She stopped without hesitation. Her body was much too tired to have an argument so early in the morning, not to mention the fact that this is the first man made structure she had seen in a week. The last thing she needs is trouble.

"What is it?" She mentioned in a shallow, tired voice.

"You don't look like you're from around this area." The gatekeeper said.

"Yeah, I don't cause I'm not from this area." She casually responds as she took out a piece of paper from her right pocket of her, already worn out, trousers, "Here, my identifications." She shoved it at the gatekeeper.

"Yashmin van Ilarial, 20 years old, origins-- wait-- this can't be right; It says here you're from the municipality of Wershtrict." The gatekeeper was hesitant and cautious.

"That's right." Yashmin tiredly responded, her eyes were beginning to close on their own and her body was on the brink of giving up.

"But that's about a 2 months' journey by horse, what the hell brings you here?" The gatekeeper questioned, he was becoming very cautious.

"I'm just passing by.....please, I haven't seen a town in a week....I need a proper bath.....and bed." She weakly responded.

"Fine, there's an inn just to the right of the entrance. There should be a room for you." The gatekeeper pointed as he handed back the paper, "Welcome to Capital Steper of Kingdom Grelt."

The town was surrounded by a not-so-thick wall, only enough to be manned not weaponized, and from that entrance the road went straight and the city center could be seen at the end of the road, though just a tiny bit.

Immediately, Yashmin went to the inn named "José's beautiful and grand inn", which was what the gatekeeper told. She didn't bother with the exhilarating name and just went in.

She approached the reception and, "one room for 3 nights and a hot bath please."

José, who was at the reception desk greeted, "welcome to the beau---"

"I know, I'm tired. The key please, I'll pay later." She interrupted.

"Oh... Right. Ehm, here you go then. Up the stairs, the room at the very end to the left and we have ensuite bathroom with warm water." José explained as he handed the key.

"Ensu-- huh?" Yashmin was confused.

"Oh, it means the bathroom is inside the room and we have running water." José patiently explained.

"Oh. Right. Of course. Thanks." Yashmin took the key and rushed upstairs to her given room, having no idea what ensuite means but she couldn't care less as she just wanted to lay down on a bed and then take a bath. The words coming out of José's mouth was mostly gibberish to her ears.

She entered the room, locked the door, threw her stuff everywhere and jumped on the bed and continued to sleep for 16 hours.

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The next day, she was awoken by the sunlight that shune at her face, she was a mess.

She slowly stood up, slapped herself silly and was awake.

"Oof, it stinks here. Oh wait, that's probably me." She talked to herself. She stood up and looked at her bed, what was once a nice and clean bed with white sheets became a messy, dirty bed which sheets had turned brown.

"Right..."

She then went to the bathroom, another room unbeknownst to her. To her knowledge, a bathroom is where people gather to bathe, a public space. But here, it was private. There was a bathtub for herself with a pipe at one end and a hole on the ground next to it and there was a table with a bowl with a pipe on top of it and a mirror.