Human’s for all their achievements across the worlds are simple creatures at their core, even the deepest of voids within one could be filled with the smallest of things.
And sometimes that smallest thing could be a very cheap dinner of A large bowl of soup and two dumplings for 10 Copper.
Sehan and the other two had met at ‘Kareem’s Enchantments and Mechaneering Works’ and had been working there for about 10 months now, it wasn’t their first terrible job in the city and probably wouldn’t be their last. But money was to be made and routine and boredom had numbed the pain of exhaustion and desperation somewhat for Sehan.
But one among them, Marun had been looking worse for wear with every passing day,
We could tell that he wasn’t taking life in the city as easily and had been skipping a lot of his meals.
Sehan and Rurda had attempted to remind him to eat his meals, which he seemed to acknowledge and trudged off to have, only later did they realise that his ‘meal’ primarily consisted of a cup of tea and a root he chewed on.
Rurda once even brought a meal and gave it to Marun directly, who in turn stretched that one meal for days on end, long beyond the time the food would have been considered fit for consumption.
They could understand, they had been there, they remembered the desperation but it didn’t make it any easier to watch.
One night, 4 hours past midnight they found Marun still at his work bench, barely conscious, failing to try and welt two components together even after what seemed like 5 attempts.
Deciding that enough was enough, they both grabbed Marun by his shoulders and hauled him out of the workshop into the cool night air of the city ‘Lets go, we are going to Kayas’
The three of them went to Kaya’s Diner, a small restaurant in a little corner of an alley where Kaya herself made and served One large bowl of soup and two dumplings for 10 copper and 5 coppers for each additional dumpling.
They sat Marun down and put down 1 silver on the counter,
‘You are going to have two bowls of soup and 20 dumplings, and we are going to, for ONE NIGHT, dine like Kings’
The three of them sat together in that diner with nothing but thick curtains and thin wooden walls to keep out the outside cold, they were exhausted, but reality could wait,
it would come tomorrow,
but today they were warm and they would dine like kings, they would heal and when tomorrow finally came, they would be a little bit stronger to face it.
Based on a story told by Brennan Lee Mulligan
