The bakery was finally closed and our sweet rounded gossip, Sara was headed down the slowly emptying street towards the small house where she lived. It wasn't anything special. In fact it wasn't much bigger than a shack, but it was a home and it was hers.
Although slowly growing dark outside, there was still plenty of light to see by in order to light a fire. Carefully and piece by piece she placed the wood in its proper place, added some kindling, and set the fire, gently coaxing it to life. Soon her small home began to grow warm with a homey feel to it and Sara set some water on the fire to boil for cooking and washing.
Humming to herself in her normal cheery state she went about the place lighting candles and preparing the food for her evening meal. It would take at least an hour for her meal to cook and as it did so, Sara went over to the closet.
Kneeling and crawling further in she soon came to the place where she kept her secret savings. Pulling up the floor board she dug a little ways down with her hand and reached into the hole pulling out a glass jar filled three quarters full with silver. Reaching in a second time she pulled out two more like the first but they were completely full.
Sara carefully picked up the three jars and carried them to the table spilling the contents of all three onto the table. She began counting the silver, putting the pieces into piles of ten. All the money before her was her savings from the day she began working at the bakery. Every month after food had been purchased and her needs taken care of, Sara placed what money was left in these jars. It was never much, but she knew the value it would one day have. About ten to fifteen minutes later she completed her counting and added it all up. Her total silver came to five thousand five hundred and twenty silver pieces. She whistled surprised that she had saved up so much in such a short time. She removed two thousand and set it aside for the journey she would be taking to the capital. The remaining she put back in the jars and placed them back in their hiding place, carefully covering them back up.
An hour had passed and the soup Sara had made was ready. She sat down to a quiet candlelight dinner. Alone once again and wondering what adventures the trip would bring. While cleaning up the dishes from dinner and putting things away a knock came on her door. 'Now who could that be at this hour?' she thought as she dried her hands and crossed the small room to open the door. A man stood outside her door, he was tall, very tall in fact, with dark hair and light eyes. He was well muscled and quite the looker and Sara knew immediately who he was. She knew him well in fact and opened the door wider to let him in with a smile on her face. He came in, in one smooth motion and quickly shut and latched the door behind him. "This is a pleasant surprise," Sara commented, her body already beginning to tense with the pleasure it knew it was about to receive.
The man smiled, a smile to melt any woman's heart, and grabbing her arm, he pulled her close and kissed her full on the lips, his tongue snaking its way into her mouth devouring her with a familiarity only he knew. A soft moan escaped Sara's throat as the man kissed her, his hands roaming her body feeling every voluptuous inch It had been more than a month since she had seen him, he had been gone on some sort of campaign and before he left they had spent an entire day together, making love with a fiery passion.