Mai yawned, sitting up and rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. Muro sounded like he was doing better, and at least he'd stopped coughing. Still, Mai decided to check on him. Walking over to him, Mai pressed her hand against his right cheek. Muro was about the same temperature as when she checked him last night, and he wasn't shivering again, so that was good. Some mornings, Mai would wake up to find Muro had gotten colder during the night, so she would have to go out and risk breaking into a store for a new blanket.
"Good morning, Muro."
"Mmmm, morning Mai," Muro yawned.
Mai smiled as she watched Muro settle back into his bed. He really needed his sleep, but Mai still wanted to make sure he was okay. It was what she had been doing for the last three years. Her stomach growled, reminding her that she hadn't eaten anything yet. Muro must have been hungry too, since Mai knew that he was almost too weak to get up on his own.
Heading over to the cracker stash, Mai decided to try some new medicine that she hoped would cure her brother. Or at least help him get better soon. Once they had finished eating, Mai gave Muro a quick kiss on the temple, and headed out into the swiftly breaking dawn.
Mai made her way through the shadows and back-allies, until she was sure that she was far enough away that she would be able to loose anyone who might try to follow her home. Mai had a number of places that she got Muro's medicine from, and she never went to the same place twice, it was one of the things that had kept her and Muro from being caught by those TCTF guys.
There seemed to be more of them around than normal, so Mai made sure to be more careful than she usually was. Once they were all gone, Mai stepped out of her hiding place, making sure not to appear to be hiding anything. Walking like the people she had seen out on the streets, Mai headed for a small store called Korowin's General Store. No one had ever noticed her in there, so Mai found it a little disconcerting that everyone in the store was looking at her.
When one of the people noticed that she was looking their way, they would quickly turn the other way. Mai knew that she was being watched, but she didn't know why.