17 Back To The Store (1/2)
”Try not to wake me up today, alright?” Ash asked with a yawn as they were about to trade shifts for the bed.
Ruby nodded. ”Sorry. I'll do my best. Sleep well.”
She saw him putting the earplugs she bought in before lying down and closing his eyes. She very softly closed the door behind her feeling a bit guilty. It had been her fault he hadn't slept well for the past two days.
If her plan to fix the windows worked she might be able to make it up to him. She would need silica sand for her project. That could be purchased at any home improvement store but first she had to get more money.
She checked on the state of her still somewhat frozen food before letting the cleaning fairies in to do their work. They were professionals and she trusted them so she figured it wouldn't matter if she was gone for a few hours, especially since they knew Ash was still here.
Summoning jewels and other raw materials to create jewelry, driving into town to get them appraised, shopping for clothes and sand, buying a freezer like the ones used to hold ice cream at the grocery store, and dropping by the witches' coven to get electricity replacement items took most of the day.
By the time Ruby got back, plugged everything into the gadget Blair had created to generate electricity without any wiring in the walls for portable use, and moved all the food she leaned against the wall tiredly. Lugging all of this by herself was absolutely exhausting.
She was lucky the kitchen was on the first floor of the castle because it would have been physically impossible to move that freezer up the winding staircases. Unfortunately that didn't prevent her from having to lug the giant sandbags around.
The stairs weren't going to work. There had to be something she could measure the window with.
Ruby wanted to scream but it looked like she needed to go back to the store. She had forgotten to get those electronic camping lamps that were battery operated anyway. That had been one of the first things on her mental list too. This was why you had to write everything down!
She hadn't always been this scatterbrained. All the stress must be getting to her.
While she was out for the second time she got those lamps, a tape measure, window putty and a trowel for smoothing it (she hadn't accounted for that part before), a little notebook, and some pens.
Ruby wracked her brains to see if there was anything else she was missing. Nothing. She should be good for the rest of the day this time.
She made it back a little after 2 PM and the cleaning fairies were still hard at work. She gingerly scooted around them in her elf glamour, careful not to let her wings brush them, so she could get those broken window measurements.