When asked Kiaya responded, "We have several wagons but only one horse left." He was shocked when he saw the size of the horses being lowered form the hold. The horses were a little unused to being outside and on solid ground but when they were hitched to wagons they adjusted. They were put to good use unloading stuff from Sovereign to carry to the mansion. When they smelled the grass on the grounds they perked right up.
A field, paddock and stable were behind the mansion. The mansion had 30 rooms in it. After the cleanup two large bedrooms that adjoined were laid out for the ladies. Rooms for the captains were picked and one large room downstairs was laid out for the doctors. There was a real forge out back of the mansion with an outbuilding that served as a shop for Thomas and Gendry. The bunk rooms were set up and held the majority of the crew.
Arya found Gendry at the new forge and handed him the half piece of platinum. "Have you ever seen that before." He looked and said, "Yes it's platinum but only rarely and I've never worked it." Arya said, "That's 5 thousand gold coins worth, think you could turn it into more value than that?" Gendry scratched his head and Thomas walked up saying, "If we had the right clay I could make ring molds and we might use that and gold to make rings. We have lots of smaller gem stones that could go in them. You know we could probably make some money with an auction, sell of some of our rarer stuff, might be able to foot the ship repair build." Arya looked at Thomas and said, "Are you always like this?" She smiled when he answered "Yes!" She went back into the mansion thinking about that auction idea, it just might work.
She entered through the kitchen door and found Bart waxing poetic about his new kitchen. He was in heaven. He asked her to send one of the translators with him to the market so he could sample the local wares. He was humming and she could smell tarts baking. Calancy and Jiemba were thick as thieves running around playing together and Arya asked after them, "Keeping one eye on Nymeria and Ned are you two?" Calancy said she had told the two of them to stay in the front yard of the mansion to keep order and inspect each person and wagon. Arya laughed and went to check on them. Nymeria was ensconced under a tree checking out everything and Ned was run off chasing a butterfly in the overgrown flower garden. Ned would chirp at the wolf and she would come inspect what ever it was he was terrorizing in the moment. Arya sighed and sat in a chair on the porch to rest watching everything go on. Bart came out and handed her a small tray of tarts and a drink and smiled at her and just walked away.
Later that evening the treekin healer, Caelan, Drena, and Arya rode the wagon to the back door of the healers house. The Amani healer was ready with all his stuff stacked by the door and both patients on stretchers. They loaded up in darkness and he slipped away from a bad fate. The number of crates and boxes he had was surprising, but when they saw his books and his chemical collection spread out on his table in the doctor/hospital room they understood. The hospital was a large office room in the mansion that had been divided up with screens into patient areas, doctor's sleeping areas and lab tables on a far wall. Some fancy screens they had discovered in one of the many privy's were used to separate the areas and allow some privacy. Dirk was standing in the large living room doing a soliloquy about how hard it was to stand on dry land to a room of laughing sailors.
It was decided to grow the field out back in wheat and oats, they could just get in a spring harvest before they were ready to leave. A small team of sailors that were not working the ship chased down a plow and used the one ox to furrow it. Planting followed and they got a welcome spring rain afterwards. It was a good sign.
Trevor was working the ship with most of the sail crew. He took the shipyard crew leader into the keel area and showed him their ship construction. They could barely communicate with each other but shared experience ship building made up for it. When they had taken all their measurements they got and idea of how long the lapped ship planks should be. They understood the tapers required and got their tools out and started working a plank. Trevor was amazed at their tools as the had saws and planes with blades covered with glued on sparkling bits. Diamond chips were the sparkles, when he was told this he wanted to buy some of the tools for later use. Some barter went on and he secured a selection of the tools. It was slow going and Gendry had to forge the nails they would use so the days ground on in work.
Arya talked to Caelan and Kiaya about the auction idea and a date was set and planning done. One afternoon a knock came at the door and Caelan and Nymeria answered the door. Kiaya and a dignitary stood at the door and the man from the government fell back seeing the wolf. The man introduced himself as Antakari an official from the town and some paperwork was needed for the auction. It also required a small fee for permission and to pay an official auctioneer. Arya signed papers and paid the fee and they were set for the auction. The word was spread that a very rare auction was going to happen with extremely rare goods to be had.