She actually got a few days away from working in the palace. You can find her preparing enough sujeonggwa at home - with her usual profiling book of course. She wasn't done profiling the other village nobles.
well, heโs no danger to her. he was her friend after all and she was grateful that he was there.
rather than drunken nobles thinking they can lay fingers on her regardless if she was a royal servant or the storyteller at the shop.
and because of his stealth, she doesnโt notice or realize until hours later and sheโs loses her balance in surprise.
โwere you just there the entire time?โ
Iโve watched my father practice medicine and Iโve assisted him many times. But just because I know how to help treat ill patients with herbs or accupuncture, doesnโt make me a physicianโฆ
โTo the library?โ She perked up, unable to resist looking at the prince. Who would know that she did, other than him himself? She bowed her head back immediately and nodded.
โOf course, your highness. Let me just prepare the lamp.โ
@equableroyalty โ or citizens outside the palace.
Nari made sure to turn her attention to him but not directly look at him, keeping head bowed, standing even as the prince himself had asked her to sit.
โHow may I help you, your highness?โ
@equableroyalty She paused in her steps, watching as the other servants had left the room and it was the prince who was addressing her. Her superiors had repeatedly scolded her for her actions โabove her stationโ, much like looking royalty in the eye, just as she would with other nobles โ
just when sheโs finishing up her notes on profiles asked from her, her father comes in with bags of herbs to set down and news that someone my might come for her to work at the palace.
she canโt just pay off her debts by telling stories now, can she.