"Yeah. Once you get used to homemade food, going back is hard." Peicus, his second in command, said. "I'm tired of working in the field. I want to be able to go back home and find more than an empty apartment."
The members of the three units that protected Lutia spent their lunch break taking turns at both eating and whining. They missed Elina's smile as much as her cooking.
"Gods, how much I miss Lady Verhen already." Zest the Shyf whined while looking at the raw meat that filled the trough from which they had gotten used to feeding. "She always adds some tasty treat and even remembers what each one of us likes the best."
Before going away, Raaz had paid the local butcher to provide the beasts that protected his fields, his farmhands, and his neighbors with plenty of meat, but aside from cutting it into bite-sized chunks, he served it as it was.
