I like having guests. They normally make good company and give fair advice. Sometimes they be eating me out of house and home, but I don't mind that, not in the slightest.
Jack, Quentin and Alys popped in, brought food with them too on the insistence of their Ma. Thankfully I didn't have Ath still here or they'd be asking all sorts, poor bugger, he were hurt bad though he brushes it off as if it were just a stub of the toe or something. So we all sat about chatting, Alys telling me of the bakers lad she be seeing, Quentin glowering at her as she were talking, and Jack trying to drink me out of me ale supply, cocky bugger! Seems Ma Denton be suffering with her chest, every autumn it be the same till summer comes right around again. Quentin is still being, jumpy? quick to argue with Jack. I would have thought it had been laid to rest by now, I mean its been days and days since he almost threw him out of the window. Alys were more interested in this dance that be happening, seems she'll be taking that lad with her, me? I don't know anyone that would be interested in a dance, only one that I've danced with be Elias, and he and I ain't exactly on good terms. Infact I think he be the only one who would even know how to dance amongst the lads I know, most of them be big, hulking lads that are better at killing things than twirling about. Then again, sword play be like a dance I suppose, all that ducking, dodging, avoiding, thrusting...wait, dancing with thrusting sounds something Jack would be more interested in, ain't exactly high society stuff, then again this dance just be one for common folk, a chance for a bit of fun. Oh bugger it, lad or not with me, it'll be a much needed laugh!
According to Ath, Maddoct be wanting me to go the soothery to have those stitches out. I told him why I were anxious about going there, like, what really has happened between Elias and I. I figured if he be a very close friend, and Elias be a friend of Fiontann, and Ath and Fiontann both be friends together? It would only be a matter of time before there would be talk. He be a fair man, didn't speak ill of Elias, come to think of it, I didn't either, and he saw things the way I did, and how Elias might. He also said he'd come with me, give me a bit of strength and support, daft I know, but I appreciate it, then again he has his own stitches to be removed too! What a pair we be, an odd pair held together with thread in places! He really wants me to go drinking with him at that Thirsty Boar place. Told him why I thought it would be a bad idea, he still thinks I should.
Skar came by too, started burning that blimming sage through the house. She keeps going on about how her Ma did a good job ridding the bad folk, whatever that means, but that she be making certain they stay gone. I just let her do as she wanted, there rarely be obvious sense in what she does but she has her reasons. We had some of that pie Ath left behind and I heard about the talk in Combe. She took out that toad for me too.
