The next morning, Raven did her usual routine of work on her crops, yoga, and meditation, before heading up toward the mines. She picked up some wild horseradish and stopped by Linus' tent. She gave him the horseradish and bid him a good day. When she went into the mine she saw a man standing by a hole in the ground.
"Uh what cha doin'?" Raven asked looking down into the hole like the man was
"I was just peering down into the old mine shaft. It's been abandoned for decades." Marlon said, "Still, there's probably good ore down there, but a dark place, undisturbed for so long. I'm afraid ore isn't the only thing you'll find..."
"... What else could be down there? Snakes?" Raven asked unnerved, if there were snakes she was out
"No, probably slimes, bugs, monsters." Marlon said then took out a rusty sword out of nowhere and gave it to Raven, "Here, you might need this."
"Where did this come from?" Raven asked very confused
"I'm Marlon, I run the adventure's guild next door. I'll keep my eye on you. Prove yourself and I might think about making you a member." Marlon said and walked away without another word
"What the bloody hell just happened? When did I step into Legend of Zelda?" Raven asked weirded out and looked down in the hole, "and what the hell did he mean monsters? What kind of monsters and do I have to worry about them coming out of this damn hole?"
Raven pinched the bridge of her nose and took a deep cleansing breath. She then examined the sword. It was worn, rusty, and obviously not taken care of. Didn't the owner know anything about weapons? The poor thing looked like it would fall apart if she used it. Well maybe she would just use it for now until she could get her own weapons. Actually she would quick text Ryan to put them in the mail. After the text was sent she climbed down the latter.
Later at night:
Raven panted as the dragged her feet out of the mine. She was never going in there again without her katana or her twin swords, or something that was better than this rusty sword that weird eye patch dude gave her. She didn't care if it was better than nothing. Anyway it was too late for her to go to Clint and sell her stuff, so she might as well just take a break. She pulled off her boots and stuck her feet into the water. Oh that felt nice on her sore feet. Raven laid back and looked up at the sky. The stars were out and that made Raven grin. The moon and stars were beautiful and she always loved looking at them. She actually had a huge tattoo on her back commemorating her love for the stars. Oh maybe she should make the tattoo bigger and make it crawl over her sides and cover her scars. Just then Sebastian came into her line of sight.
"Not fishing tonight?" Sebastian asked hands in his hoody pocket
"Nope, I was in the mines and all I had was this shite." Raven said gesturing to the rusty sword next to her.
"it doesn't look that bad." Sebastian said sitting next to her
"It's a piece of crap! That eye patch dude so didn't take care of this thing." Raven said
"Eye patch dude?" Sebastian asked raising an eye brow at her
"I forget his name. Merlin, no that's a wizard, Marlon? Yeah I think its Marlon." Raven said and yawned
"Tired already?" Sebastian asked
"Yeah, I did a lot of running and mining. I'll admit it took me a little too long to figure out that I had to break the rocks to find the latter down to the next level." Raven said and pulled out a yellow stone, "I did find some cool stuff. Maybe it's worth something and I can make more of a living out of it. Hell knows I'm getting tired of not having a kitchen and just scrapping by."
"My mom can help you with the kitchen part." Sebastian said
"Yeah but I need to save up a lot. Maybe there are more valuable things deeper in the mine, if I can do a speed run I can activate more of those elevators and have a quick way to get to certain levels." Raven said rubbing her eyes, "but I'm going to have to wait till I get better weapons. This piece of crap isn't going to cut it and I rather not die in the mines because I have a piece of junk as my only line of defense."
"It can't be bad in there." Sebastian said
"Yes it can. Seriously don't go in there without a weapon." Raven said and closed her eyes, "You're more talkative than usual."
Sebastian shrugged and took a drag of his cigarette. He didn't know why he hung around her when she was by the lake. He didn't know her very well, and didn't see why he was so drawn to her. Maybe it was because she didn't force her way into his life. She just hung around and let him decide if he wanted to interact with her. He glanced down at her, she was looking up at the stars like she was when he noticed her, but her eyes kept drifting closed. She could barely stay awake. When she didn't open her eyes for a while he tapped her shoulder and she startled awake.
"Hey you should get home. You're falling asleep." Sebastian said
"Yeah, probably should." Raven yawned as she sat up and pulled her feet from the water and threw her socks and boots on, "I'll see ya at some point Sebastian."
"Bye." Sebastian said as she stood up and walked home.
Raven walked home and smiled when Pumpkin came to greet her. She scooped him up and snuggled with him as she walked over to her chest. She put the rocks, sap, and cave carats inside. She kept the Quarts and Topaz in her bag. She would bring those to the library in tomorrow. After that she went inside and went to bed.
The next day Raven woke up to the sound of rain. Awesome so she didn't have to water her plants today. She did her routine and went outside to find a box by her mailbox. Wow Ryan must have overnight it. She quickly got the box and went back inside. Inside was her katana, twin swords that was based off Deadpool's, and her throwing knifes and holsters. Raven grinned as she strapped her twins onto her back and strapped her throwing knife holsters to her thighs. She went to her out and stated to forage until the library opened. When it opened she dropped off the stuff and then went out to the mines.
This became her new routine for the next few days. She would do her farming, yoga, drop off new minerals she got from the mines if she had any and then it was off to the mines. By the end of Monday night she had gotten to level twenty and had made a decent amount of money.
