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arguably the most modern building in the village besides the castle. Every room had electric lights and heat, they could even keep the rooms cool in the scorching heat of summer. It also had running water pumped through pipes using electric powered pumps. It truly was a marvel if you forgot the smells and the sick and dying people. They even had machines that could hear the heartbeat and breathing of someone without a stethoscope.
    Most of the advancements the Techromancers developed that were not dedicated to the defense of the realm, were dedicated to medical advancement. They say that one day our medical capabilities will rival those of the Before Times.
    I walked into the front room, there were a dozen people waiting in chairs. I stepped up to the woman at the front desk and dug out the slip of paper from my pocket that had mother's prescriptions written on it. She looked up at me and smiled as I slid the paper over and said, “Hello ma'am, I'm Laney Herder, daughter of Margret.” I nudged my chin at the paper. “I've come to purchase her medicines.”
    She looked the papers over then gave me a sympathetic look. She wrote some stuff in a ledger and said with one squinted eye, indicating she knew how painful the cost was, “It would be three gold four penny.”
    I nodded and quickly pulled three gold and a silver from my coin purse and slid them to her. “Is that enough to have the doctor come look at her?”
    She covered my hand and the coins and just looked at me for a long moment until I met her eyes, then she nodded. “He is going out this afternoon on house calls. Where are you located?”
    I said hopefully, “We're the chicken herders in Cheap Quarter, near the main portcullis.”
    She nodded and wrote something in another book then looked at a calendar with writings on it behind her. She said absently as she wrote Margret Herder on the calendar. “He'll be out around seven tonight.” She looked up at me, “Is that okay?”
    I was nodding fervently. She smiled and stood, “Alright then, I'll be right back with the medicines, or would you rather the doctor bring them in case there has been a change?”
    That made sense to me so I nodded again and said, “That would probably be best. Thank you so much ma'am.”
    She looked happy that I was happy. Maybe the hospital wasn't as bad as I thought. I left the hospital with a weight lifted off my heart knowing maybe mother could get better.
    I looked at the clock tower in the church as the bell chimed eleven. The day was just shooting by. I still had to make it to the castle to sell my scrap and I still had plenty of coin in my purse. I turned back toward the market, I was going to treat myself to a mid day meal. I hadn't had one in the market since mother was healthy. I felt a little guilty spending money on myself but I was in an extremely giddy mood.
    I glanced back at the west wall, were it extended into the lake, and the swimming hole and bath house. I needed to be clean for church in the morning and I wanted to look presentable when I went to barter at the castle. I made the decision to bathe after I picked up Goliath and my wagon.
    In the market I found a Gypsy food vendor, I ordered one of those mouth watering skewers with chunks of meat and vegetables alternating on it, a buttered roll and a large cup of grape juice. I thought about getting wine or mead instead, now that I was of age, but decided against it. It was expensive but worth the half penny. The smell of the food alone had me salivating.
    I passed a seamstress on my way back to the smithy then paused to look at the back of the cart. There was a bar with dozens of tunics hanging from it. I looked down at my threadbare shirt and chastised myself as I stepped back and started looking through the offerings.
    One and a half pennies later I walked off with one new tunic for me, one for Jace, and a new nightshirt for mother. I stopped my frivolous spending and walked away from the stacks of trousers the