Amaeda Pleasant awoke to the roosters being obnoxious. The townspeople often paid her in whatever they had. Most of the time it was money or herbs, but sometimes she was paid in livestock meat or in the more rare occasions, livestock itself. The rooster and chickens were the only case of that so far and she impressed upon not being paid with animals. Food was fine, but if she had to deal with one more animal...

As she pulled her face from her desk, a leaf fell from her cheek, and landed softly on her lap. Right, she'd been trying to set up spells for scanning where Thatch had vanished not that long ago. She rose from her seat and quickly moved everything to its hiding spot. Her hiding spots were mostly just moving them onto higher shelves and hoping that no one knew what they did. Thank goodness no one had yet, but she needed to tend to the chickens before the rooster busted in through her window again.

She hated animals. However, she didn't have the stomach to behead the beasts so she took care of them instead. She grabbed her bag of birdseed and exited the store, preparing to walk around to feed the demon poultry. The rooster, which she called Buck out of sheer amusement, tried to peck at her feet.

"Buck, no. I'll kick you this time I swear," Amaeda threatened as she crossed the small area to the trough to pour the birdseed in. "Ugh, why couldn't you two have been lovebirds or parrots. You would have been less annoying."

Buck was strangely insistent this morning, abandoning the birdseed for continuing to peck Amaeda's ankles.

"Stop! That hurts you chicken prince!" Amaeda yelled, throwing a handful of seed at him. She often wondered if he was cursed to be this way, but she didn't have much headway, so all she had was that the stupid bird was smarter than she'd prefer her eventual dinner to be. He seemed to abandon his task and retreated back by the area where Amelia was resting. The hen herself was always sickly, and even though Amaeda ensured that she got better, Amelia the hen was slow and seemed to have issues being mobile. Buck apparently was her defense against their 'cruel' owner. Amaeda wished she could transmute the pair into something more easily taken care of, but so far she was also striking out at that. 

Of course it didn't help that even her chickens had more of a life than she did. Amaeda sighed and crossed back to shut the gate and start with her morning errands. She'd have to go into the forest to find certain herbs and also check the market for anything she could use. Since it was still obscenely early -Buck apparently was the type to yell at the sun when it came up- Amaeda opted to go to the forest.