[I'd like to preface this with the fact that I have no idea what Oliver does with his time. This is problematic. *cue staring at the screen for prolonged amounts of time*]
Day Break: Oliver sleeps.
Breakfast Time: Oliver wakes up, dresses, laces his boots, and heads into town. On this particular morning, he stops at the blacksmith's and exchanges two jars of coveted jam for a box. He stows the box in the inside pocket of his jacket and walks to the diner for breakfast. He orders more food than he can eat and leaves a big tip. He places two untouched plates of food in front of the children sitting at the table next to his with only glasses of water. He walks away.
Mid-morning: Oliver opens the stores on the corner. He arranges the candy on the counter, counts the money though it's rarely used, and unloads fresh apples. He waits for Ash to drop in and is unsurprised when the boy shows up late with a black eye. That boy.
Lunch Time: Oliver walks to the bakery next door, buys two loaves of bread, and heads a few blocks north. He slips into a building labeled "The Tilted Willow" and climbs slowly up a flight of stairs. He goes three doors down, his fingers trailing along the left side of the hallway, and uses a key to unlock apartment 18c. He leaves a loaf of bread on the ink stained desk and walks out and locks the door. Back at the store, he eats a piece of pound cake.
Mid-afternoon: Oliver's costumers filter in and out of the store. Some trading goat cheese for carrots and others looking for a bag of flour in exchange of a dozen eggs. He always accepts their offers wordlessly with an incline of his head and a battered smile.
Dinner Time: Oliver skips dinner and heads to the farmhouse. Ingrid has decided that meeting at her apartment is too obvious. She refuses to be seen with him except very rarely. This does not prevent them from seeing each other quite often.
Early Evening: Oliver has cleared space in the cellar for multiple people. He has greeted said people and started the meeting when it became apparent Ingrid was not going to show. He has done this many times before, but still he worries that she has been found out. That tonight is more than spilled ink and late work days.
Bed Time: Oliver ventures to Reed's. He slips in the back door, sinks tiredly into the rocking chair on the screened-in porch, and waits. He sees Reed and then leaves, quietly slipping into the dark. On his way home, he encounters both a troop of marching soldiers and a string of fairy tinsel. [Nasty stuff, fairy tinsel.] He's lucky that the fairy tinsel distracted the soldiers and not him.
Midnight: Oliver crashes.
2 a.m. : Oliver sleeps.
Notes: Three cups of tea, a cup of trail mix, and my computer is dying. I will never sleep. Oliver, you're impossible. Get over her. Okay? Okay.
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