The warm spring sun shone down into my room through the open window above my bed, I felt the warmth on my chest and heard a knock in the door to my room followed by my moms voice. She knocked again and beckoned for me to wake up making me slowly gain consciousness and look at the wooden roof through half closed eyes, I sat up and stretched.

Mom: "Wake up, the kitchens open I need someone to help me tend to the customers"

I got out of bed yawning and stretched while wiggling my toes on the somewhat cool wood floor, all the while the cold wind blew in through the ajar window shutters and blew on my back making me shiver. I walked over to my drawers and took out a set of clothes that were a pair of brown pants, suspenders, and a white linen long sleeve button up shirt, after getting dressed I put my socks on and stepped into my short boots, this was more or less the same outfit I always wore. It was cheap, easy to clean and quite cool to wear in the heat which made it my favorite outfit for working with mom and Verena. I grabbed a small coin pouch and left my room, locking it before pocketing the key in my pants and walking down the hallway towards the staircase. Already I heard the chatter from downstairs which was natural for me now, I reached the bottom floor and saw adventures walking in and out of the Tavern lobby, even heading to the wash room which was a big communal shower for those who were renting rooms. I walked towards the mess hall and high fived some of the regular adventures and customers that got their breakfast with us, everyone here was good people and quite a few were good friends with mom. The path I took to the kitchen was the same as always so it was natural for me to jump back to avoid bumping into someone, when I finally reached the counter I stood ready to help mom who set down two plates of breakfast which included a slice of toast, 2 eggs, some sausage and diced fried potatoes.

Mom: "go take those to table 4 I already gave them their mead so they just need their breakfast"

Me: "yes ma'am"

I took the plates and carried them to the table with a smile, they saw me approaching and started chanting for their food. When I got to their table I set their food down and told them good morning before leaving to the kitchen were mom tapped a spot on the counter for me to sit as. I pulled out a stool and sat down waiting for breakfast, Jenny, a family friend, walked in with her adventures gear and looked around, when she spotted me waiting on a stool she quickly walked over and sat in the stool next to me before wrapping her arms around me in a hug. I hugged her back and smiled, she was so cool, mom came out with a plate of breakfast for me and saw Jenny making her smile seeing us hug.

Mom: "Jenny right on time Damian was going to eat his breakfast right now"

Me: "yeah wanna join me?"

Jenny: "I'd love to! Are you gonna eat with us Kaitline?"

Mom: "nah I already ate but you two go on ahead"

Jenny: "oh I found this awesome bounty, pays pretty good but I need an extra set of hands, you in Damian?"

Mom looked at me and nodded giving me permission to go out on a quest with Jenny, i smiled and turned to Jenny nodding in return to accept her quest invite. She smiled and let go of the hug sitting up straight in her stool waiting for her breakfast. I looked at her in awe and sat up straight to try and seem tall, she was awesome and always had good stories to tell like the time she got her sword taken by a nightwolf and beat it with her fists!