"I wasn't expecting someone to crash their ship next to my home," she replied easily, a bit of humor slipping into the words. "It seems a day for surprises."
She never had visitors out this way. Once, from one of the older women at the nearby farm who had seen her light in the distance one night, but she'd carefully made the woman aware that she preferred her privacy and had since been left on her own. Any concern for the widow on the far edge of the settlement was now expressed solely during her days in the village, for which she was always openly grateful.
Gesturing in the direction she'd come, she added, "It's just this way." It would be nightfall soon, and it would be better for everyone if they were out of the forest by then.
no subject
She never had visitors out this way. Once, from one of the older women at the nearby farm who had seen her light in the distance one night, but she'd carefully made the woman aware that she preferred her privacy and had since been left on her own. Any concern for the widow on the far edge of the settlement was now expressed solely during her days in the village, for which she was always openly grateful.
Gesturing in the direction she'd come, she added, "It's just this way." It would be nightfall soon, and it would be better for everyone if they were out of the forest by then.