Eva arose about mid-morning. It took her a few moments to realize where she was. From this day forward this place would be hers. It didn't really feel real.
She got some water from the water jug near the door and washed her face. Today she would go back to her carefree adventurer life. That was right. She would just ignore her problems until she had to deal with them.
A future in which she gained enough merits to even enter the nobility was an almost impossible task in and of itself. Plus she was way too embarrassed to face Lucas at the moment. So, her only recourse was to take on a quest.
That is, after all, what adventurers did. They took on quests. She definitely was not escaping reality or pushing her problems onto her future self. Pressing a cold cloth to the puffiness under her eyes she hoped that she could erase the remains of her struggle from the day before.
