A Reasonable Reaction

[bythegrace]

WHO: Johanna and Adhemmar, but also concurrent threads for anyone who is likely to visit her.
WHAT: She is not taking that public execution well.
WHEN: After the execution.
WHERE: Johanna's house, newly built, just outside town.
NOTES: None yet, will update.

Johanna's house is small and wide, built of heavy stones and cement, half atop a deck of hewn logs and a foundation of brick. The waterwheel attached to it moves sluggishly in the water and the quiet scraping knock it makes is a persistent sound. It is loud enough that, once one approaches her door, they might not hear through it. On any other day that would be true, but today she is very upset and she has decided to take that anger out on the furnishings in her home. There are crashes and clangs, shattering sounds and frustrated cursing and they, like the waterwheel, persist.

It is fortunate her home is not precisely inside town and, apart from a precious few folk, there are none who would travel to the river to bother her without good reason.

It is not quite sunset when she finally stops her tantrum (for what else could she call it but that?) and the building goes quiet.

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[infinitewatch]

At this, the Captain seems to grow a little more comfortable: he's used to how most people in town joke around, and can react accordingly, but Johanna is new and he hasn't yet come to read her mannerisms. But she's offering coin, saying Finian did an errand for her, and that at least is simple enough to comprehend.

So he nods, coming forward to hold out his hand. "He's a good boy," he says quietly, a bit of pride penetrating the sheepishness.