Noon arrived sooner than it normally did in La'marri, and yet despite this, the village wasn't particularly busy. At least, not as much as Sophie, who'd traveled here on request from one of Serendipity's adventurer's guilds, had expected. She'd been here before; Having traveled for a while through many of the free lands and smaller settlements with her mentors, the traders whom she'd lived alongside for several years. The last time she was here, it was much, much more lively; A self-proclaimed druid had summoned forth an unnatural winter to the village and it's surroundings, and required help gathering ingredients for a ritual that would reverse the spell and bring some sense of normality back to the land.
Sophie helped then, just as she'd come to help now; Though the situation was far different, and not nearly as dire as the ecosystem being thrown out of alignment. One of La'marri's residents had lost track of one of their magicked sheep; 'magicked', mind you, by a passerby mage who enchanted the creature with very quickly-growing, very strong wool which the herder had been sheering with a special set of sheers. Turned out, as she learned when she'd arrived about a day ago, that not only did the sheep run off, but in the herder's attempts to catch them, he broke his sheers. Which... c'mon, man. Thankfully, having assessed the damage to the tool, Sophie was fairly sure repairing them wouldn't be too much of a problem-- and after doing so, was pleased to find she was correct in that regard.
The sheep was a bit more troublesome to catch, but with a bit of baiting and a proper-placed (and completely safe) trap, she was able to capture it without bringing any undue harm or stress to the poor animal, and returned it safely to it's owner just a while ago. There was no coin to collect; The guild had paid her an advance on the reward, with the remainder to be collected once she returned. That said, the herder, not wanting to leave the kindly mouse-girl with nothing to show his appreciation, gave her a lantern; One enchanted with magical flames which died and revived as needed with the twist of a cap on the top. It was small enough to fit on Sophie's waist, clipped onto her belt as an additional bit of utility for her, but the flames were bright enough to illuminate a small field. Very convenient!
She'd only just departed from the herder's home and taken to a clearing just outside of the village, where she'd decided to take a moment to record some of the information she'd gathered on the enchanted sheep, and how the spell worked in her personal diary. She was in a particularly green mood; Happy the quest she'd taken had gone well enough, and happy that she'd even gotten an extra reward in the form of the magical fire-lantern, which she allowed to flicker and burn for a bit even though it was noon; She'd put it out eventually, after finishing her diary entry.
