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Maria smiled at him and thought, glancing at her watch. "It's about eight, so we've got another hour to look around, and an hour to set up and we'll be ready before ten," she said as she thought. "So, we can spend the rest of this hour walking around town and seeing what there is."

Jean was still sleepy, but she was hungry too. So she locked up the Clinic and headed to the store. "I can't wait to find out if there are any new herbs available."

"Thank-you!" Laureth said to the deliveryman as she took the packages from him. The man nodded at her, climbed back into his truck, and headed back to the city. Laureth looked down at the two boxes she had received. "This must be the shipment of flowerpots and herbs I ordered!" she said happily. "I'll need to get them set up in the store." She beamed.

Catching something out of the corner of her eye, she noticed someone approaching. It was a woman with black hair in a labcoat. "Hmm, I wonder who that could be...?" she thought aloud.

"Okay," Cliff said with a nod, smiling. "Shall we go?" He extended his arm for her to lock her own with his.

Jill stepped into the small shower and bathtub inside her shaky house and turned on the water. She smelled, ironically enough, like a horse stable, and figured she should at least attempt to wash that smell off of her body. She turned the faucet for hot water and then pulled the valve to start her shower. Cold water shot out of the nozzle and hit her body like daggers, and she cringed and screamed, goosebumps rippling up her entire body. After a few short moments, the water heated up, and she finished her shower with no quarrels.

After getting dressed and eating a quick breakfast, Jill hobbled out of her front door. "Hmmm...I really should go see the doctor for my leg," she said. "But how am I supposed to get all the way to town if I can barely walk?" She remembered her previous method of transportation from the day before and blushed. "No, I couldn't ask him to do that, and besides, that would still leave me with the problem of making it over to his farm."

Jill sighed and leaned on the mailbox beside her house. The old thing was immensely rusty, and the extra weight of Jill's body caused the bottom to snap, and the two went toppling to the ground.

"Owww...." Jill said, holding her head. She looked at the mailbox beside her, the long post still attached to it, and a light bulb turned on in her head. "Ah-ha!" she said happily, climbing to her feet and errecting the mailbox. Resting the main box under her armpit, Jill used the broken mailbox as a makeshift walking stick and began making her way to town. "Well, that was easy," she said with a laugh.

Sean had gotten up earlier than he intended, and was wandering around inside of his house, trying to find anything of use. He was in luck, he found that the bathroom's walls were constructed of stone, and the ceiling inside was holding up rather nicely. He hung an electric lantern inside and turned on the water, watching as rust colored water poured out for a few minutes before it became clear. "... Good, I can take a bath," he said as he let it run and warm up, before pulling the plug that would let it flow from she shower nozzle. More rust colored water, but it was cleared up faster.

He got in and cleaned himself, looking down at the bite on his leg. The skin around it was a dark red, looking almost purple, and he winced when he touched it. "... I need to get that looked at some time..." he said as he washed it gently, before cleaning the rest of his body. Once he was clean, he felt refreshed and stepped out, getting dressed again and bandaging up the bite. Once done, he turned off the electric lantern and went back outside, taking a breath of air and smiling.

He walked over to his tent and grabbed his rucksack, putting it on and walking over to the field and looking at it. A few weeds had grown, but he got his scythe out and cleared them quickly before tilling the land some more. He then thought for a moment. "... Crap! I still need to get seeds.." he said to himself, "Well, Jill said that there was a store open now that had seeds... I'll just go there," he said and started to walk down the road, eyes closed as he thought to himself, thinking about yesterday and barely paying attention to what was going on.

"Eh?" Cliff muttered, turning. He listened for a moment, but didn't hear anything. "What is it? What did you hear?"

Cliff turned and spotted Jill, and a sweatdrop appeared on his head. "What in the world....?"


Jill looked up when she heard someone calling to her. Her heart skipped; was it...? No, it was a girl's voice, and she saw them, a couple, ahead of her. She half-waved with her free hand and clomped over to them, using her mailbox crutch. "Er, hi," she said, a bit embarrassed by her predicament. "Do you guys live here in the town?"