Sawtooth Spire They want me to go eat some worms

She's currently out of town, though I can alert you when she gets home!

Rather than answer her, Elfie mumbled something haltingly, then announced his imminent departure before running away. Quell took an abortive step in the same direction, blinking. Well, that was pretty weird. Her head tilted as she wondered if she should feel bad about this peculiar development. After all, it came across like he was fleeing her proposal. She licked her lips. Maybe she had been overbearing, despite her attempts to dial it back to a lower key.

Even the chronically upbeat Quell wasn't impervious to rejection, so she couldn't quite suppress the slight of having a very attractive young man literally run from the idea of spending time with her. But she did her best to brush it off and get on with her day. She would swing by Wylla's place to make sure she'd received the fish, then perhaps throw herself into some small game hunting.