At The Docks [Shinku][Mission]

The Second Crimson Princess

Slow and steady wins the race, or so the saying went though Shinku wasn’t the sort of person to follow that sort of ideology. Born with the inability to plan stuff out thoroughly as well as little patience and a short attention span, the younger of the two Shurajo sister really couldn’t follow that ideology if she wanted to. Rooted in old ways, which may or may not change as she grew older and away from the environment that had been the Gremlin Project, the thought of taking her time and planning stuff out, excruciating detail not required, didn’t sound all that appealing. And to follow that ideology, which now that she thought about it she didn’t fully understand in the first place, much effort would be required on her part. She would have to learn to be patient, to focus on a single task without being easily distracted by something or someone else, and above all else, to plan out her course of action instead of charging in head first and hoping for the best outcome. But such objectives were of no concern to Shinku for the moment, for she was not in any rush to remold her personality, at least not yet. Perhaps a month from now she would be ready, or that could be years from now, it didn’t really matter at the moment since she was still young.

Children of her age weren’t expected to be analytical, or observant, or the ability to focus on a single task, or to have long-term planning abilities. Most of all, children of her age didn’t have a whole lot of patience, or so she had heard. Every child was different personality wise, but she was getting ahead of herself and quite frankly, she was off task. Awoken at the crack of dawn, yes she was beginning to sleep and wake up at times her sister didn’t consider to be ungodly, by Chikara and dragged out the house with Arisu and Kurisu, she had been taken to the docks. Apparently there were some fishermen in need of help this particular morning, and with her sister’s ability to estimate how long a certain task should take them to complete, she had wisely decided that arriving before the rest of the villagers awoke would be best. Especially since the sisters had not one but two task that needed to be completed, both of which would be time consuming but needed to be done swiftly and efficiently, a timely manner to put it simply. Something which would be easy for her sister to do, but with her flitting interest and, as stated previously, inability to focus on a single task for a long period of time, though she is getting better at that, it would definitely take her a while to complete the first task. As for the second task, well that would also take her a while to complete if she were to do it alone, not because of her attention span but because the crates weighed just as much as she, and she would definitely tire out with the marketplace being on the other side of the village.

But than again, with the help of Chikara for the second task, and the assistance of Arisu for the first task, perhaps she could complete them in a timely manner, though her musing of ideologies that she didn’t fully comprehend didn’t really reflect that much. But a glance at her half filled bucket, and another at Arisu, who’s white coat was not dingy thanks to her digging through the dirt. A smile at the pup and she got back to work, and within the hour the bucket was filled. Upon dropping them off, the two would have a short snack break, Shinku sharing her apple with Arisu. With lunch, er snack; finished the two would begin on the last task of the day. That task was transporting several crates full of the recent catch of the day and getting them from the docks to the marketplace. Something that she had been dreading doing all day since hearing that the crates weighed just a little less than she, and despite being strong in her own right, at least she was physically stronger than other people her age, she knew her limit.

And she knew for sure that she wouldn’t be able to get the crates over to the marketplace without several breaks and several sips of water along the way. But they tried anyway, for since there were two of them and six crates, they decided that the task could be complete in three trips. At least, they wanted to see if the task could be complete in three, though the two knew that the chances of that happening was low due to Shinku’s height and weight, and thus lack of necessary strength to carry a crate all by herself. So when they had tried that method, they had immediately decided to take a different course of action, for the two crates at a time wasn’t going to work out. They tried taking one crate to the marketplace, taking turns carrying it to cut down on resting periods. The next time they went to grab a crate, the two decided to hold opposite sides of the crate, and seeing this as the faster method, proceeded to apply this method for the rest of the crates they had to transport. With all crates at the marketplace, the duo and their pups rested for sometime, and once they had regained their strength, Chikara had decided that since they were at the marketplace already that they should do some grocery shopping. Surprisingly, everything was much cheaper here than at the place that the usually shopped at, and thus they were able to buy more than usual.

An hour of shopping later, at least Shinku believed it had been an hour, the two would head home with a good deal of bags filled with food of various kind.

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