Viola wakes to the smell of breakfast wafting from the main floor of the Green Rabbit Inn. For a second, her stomach rumbles. It smells like the roast meats her mother would make for them back home. Then she remembers the hanging carcasses that she had seen the night lingering in the kitchen. She hadn't been sure if they were cats, really large rats, or some other rodent, but they definitely hadn't looked like something she had wanted to put in her mouth. The memory of their father telling them to avoid eating at this Inn floods her memory: "Cheap rooms," he had said, "but don't eat the food. I risked it...once. It had just about been the end of me. They typically don't get repeat visitors from those who eat the food -- mostly because few live to tell the tale" Viola smiles at the memory of her father. How many months would she and Sebastian be gone? It was hard to tell; a couple to be sure. They would be returning home before they knew it though. First, they had to do something about their problem with finding a captain. Today...today, they would meet with Captain Kingery of the King's navy. Maybe, just maybe.
Viola swings her feet out of bed, hastily dresses and grabs her things (KEY/CODE:
3 --- the number of children Shakespeare had) before waking Sebastian and sneaking out the door before their hostess could try to lure them into eating some of the lurid food. It had smelled so good but the odd plopping and glopping sounds that had come from the kitchen as they had passed had steeled their resolve to find their breakfast elsewhere before meeting with the Captain.
"It is going to be a good day!" Viola exclaims to Sebastian as they head towards a nearby pastry shop. "After-all, after all the disappointments of yesterday, what could possibly go wrong?"
To follow along with Viola and Sebastian on their third day in Nyanzaru, click either of the pictures below.
Green Rabbit Inn
Captain Kingery
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