"I feel fine right now. I promise to sit down if I get tired, but I slept longer than usual." She grinned and hugged him when she saw the supplies. Karen pulled the food from the oven and set it on a hot pad in the middle of the table. She sat down and ate a good amount of her food in silence, then just as she was scraping the burnt edges of the crust off of her plate into the refuse bucket, she said to him, "I am going to take today off from Mending. Does that please ye?"