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CHAPTER 53: THE PANTRY
Three days later at the Mira House pantry.Jem was doing inventory, when he stopped and stared before calling.JemFranklin, please come and see.Franklin moved closer to see what he was calling him for.He saw five new sacks of grain, 100kg each, another crate of dried beans and two barrels of oil.Franklin asked with surprise on his face.We didn’t order this, did weJem replied No, and the carter wouldn’t say who paid.Just “for Mira’s House. From a friend.”Amara Vale, who was coming in with water replied A friend?Lady Sera replied from the doorway, where she was carrying flour.Must be.Franklin looked at Lady Sera, then he called her name Lady Sera.Lady Sera sets the flour she was carrying down, she didn’t look his eyes, she just asked.What?Franklin asked The grain, the beans, the oil.No name on any of it.Lady Sera replied Maybe the carter forgot.[shrugs]Amara Vale called her softly Lady Sera.Lady Sera finally looks up and replyThe house needed it.You have 412 mo
CHAPTER 52: LADY SERA HELPED SOLVE A PROBLEM
The next morning, at the Mira House kitchen.Mara was already in the kitchen handling things, while Franklin and Jem are helping out in the kitchen because of the increase in number.The ovens are hot, the bread is baking, the line is already forming.Lady Sera walks in with dust on her boots and a ledger under her arm.She doesn’t usually come to the kitchen with a ledger under her arm but today she did.Lady Sera said to the people in the kitchen.We have a problem.Jem raised his head and said We already have 12 problems, which one is this again?Lady Sera opened the ledger in her hand,then replied .Beds.Franklin wiping flour on his apron, and asked How bad is it?Lady Sera replied Very bad, we have a record of 412 people and 280 beds, so 280 people are on bed and the rest are on mats, even the mats are out numbered, some are on the floor and on sacks.The bad part is kids are getting sick from the cold, especially those without beds.Amara Vale who was just coming into the kit
CHAPTER 51 : MIRA HOUSE INCREASED
Two weeks later after the permission from the governor.At the Mira House.The house changed, not because of titles but because of two people showing up together openly.The courtship has started already.The courtship was not the kind we see in the movie, no ballroom, no carriages, they were just themselves.Franklin and Amara Vale court in the work.They did things together.By Dawn: They are mending together, even though she still can’t sew straight, he still teaches her with love.By Noon: They joined the ration line. She moved the tables. He tells stories to kids that are waitingBy Night: They both work in the sick room together. They sit on two chairs now, the kids in the room see two different clothes singing one lullaby.The city sees it. The house sees it.No one whispers. They all acknowledge.Lady Sera said to Jem“That’s how you do it.”The Mira House was fast growing.Words were spread fast“The governor's daughter is there.”“Flower man is still there and he tells stori
CHAPTER 50 : GOVERNOR VALE AND HIS DAUGHTER
Later the next day, at the Governor resident.Governor Vale was alone in his office, he called a guard.The guard answered.Sir, you called me.Governor Vale nodded and said Yes, I did, go look for my daughter, tell her to meet me in my office, I would like to have a word with her.The guard replied,Ok sir, then he left the office.The guard went straight to Amara Vale room , she was not there, then he headed to her favorite place in the house, [the sick room] where she cared for the sick.In no short time, the guard was already at the sick room door, he knocked and walked in.After greeting Amara Vale, the guards saidMa, the Governor sent me to you.Amara Vale who answered his greeting with a nod, because she was busy arranging the drugs.She immediately turned to the guard then she said.The Governor..The guard replied Yes ma, the governor asked me to find you, he wants to see you now and he is waiting for you in his office.Immediately Amara Vale heard the guard message she dr
CHAPTER 49 : THE GOVERNOR GAVE HIS PERMISSION
Franklin takes a deep breath then he continues.My observation, Governor.Franklin paused and continued.Amara Vale is kind,not because she has to be,but because she stays after her shift ends and because she gives her bowl away and also she knows Lia likes dragons and Coren’s boy draws them bad.She is smart.She fixed the ration line.She rearranged the sick room and fewer kids got sick.She reads page 87 and cries, and then she gets up and works.[Beat]She never asked me to leave Mira’s House.She never asked me to be anything but the man who shows up.And I have been showing up for seven days.Governor Vale watches him, he didn’t blink, he just asks.And?Franklin continues And I would like to keep showing up, for the house, for the city and for her.[quietly]I’m not asking for permission to marry her today.I’m asking if you’ll allow me to court her honorably.In the open, In the work.Where everyone can see.If at the end of that, she still wants me,and I am still worthy of h
CHAPTER 48 : FRANKLIN PLANS TO VISIT GOVERNOR VALE
One week later At the Mira House, that night at the pedestal. All work has been done, kids are already asleep, while the adults are just gisting and rounding up things at the pedestal.The house is finally quiet, more beds have arrived in the house, since Amara Vale constantly visits, now the Mira House has extra 140 beds added to their previous 200 beds space, but even with the increase all 340 beds are all full. Franklin sits with Davan, the book is open to a blank Page 228 with chalk dust on his fingers, dark circles under his eyes because of stress but he’s steady.Franklin said to Davan I need to go to the Governor’s office.Davan didn’t look surprised he just answered Mm.Franklin continues It has been a week now.A week since the tea invitations. A week of “how’s the house” notes.A week of me showing up at dawn to see his daughter.[He rubs his face]He’s expecting my reply soon, about Amara Vale.Davan asked And what’s your reply?Franklin replied I don’t have a “yes”
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