☀️ Arselia and Akonia

Raphael finds a child in the yard.
"Apparently, the parents forced him to work. I wonder if the SRI investigates such cases?))"

- Hello, little one! Are there any adults at home? I'm here about the job posting.

Maybe the gnome girl was feeling a bit down at that moment, unlike her usual seriousness. Or maybe Raphael just imagined it.
/Who knows if the news about Gloria had reached her by then, but if it wasn't just Raphael's ability to "sense" such deaths, then... And she could have read the newspaper; I'll think about how to play that out./

- Sir, if you're here about the job, please just say so, because there's a time for jokes and a time for business, - she stopped cleaning, not bothering to pick up her hair with her dusty hands, but slightly shaking her head and tossing her hair. Maybe that's enough to make her ears visible...
- What is your question?

I'm really not looking forward to moving.

/You've already paid for the Hearth, and you don't pay for living on the base... But it's your decision./