Day 5: Sunburn (Burning House by Lottery Winners) {WIP}
Xisuma stared at the map that sat in front of him.
So many places yet so little possibility for him.
He fortunately recognized many of the places, but the cost for most of them were far above the measely amount of credits that some elders had gifted him after he had helped them out.
The concept confused him to be honest.
He had seen a group of elders standing looking up a brown rough pole into a giant bush of green.
Having grown up being told that it’s right to listen to your elders. He did what he always did when confused. He asked questions.
Elders were wise there had to be some sort of reason for why they were staring up into that object correct?
When he had asked they had seemed awfully surprised. Then one of them pointed towards an off spurt of what he had learned was a tree. Upon said off spurt lay a fuzzy looking creature, one he had never seen before, one that was apparently called a cat.
Outside of the city was quite a strange place one that none of his books seemed to describe accurately.
Being the dutiful youngling he was he decided to get the creature for the group.
He had been quite successful with it but after that they had insisted on paying him for his help.
He had tried to refuse as it was only right to help out and he had nothing to trade.
But they insisted saying he had done something no one else had done. He could’ve ignored them, but he didn’t.
He tried refusing again explaining it was only his duty.
They insisted yet again explaining that he seemed like someone who would make good use of it.
He wanted to continue refusing, but he truly had no way to do anything. Everything here seemed like you needed to trade or pay and he had nothing.
He decided to take the credits as the group called them.
He now found himself here with barely enough coin to scratch together some food.