Leah's Cottage
| Leah's Cottage | |
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| Type | Location |
| Open Hours | 10am to 6pm |
| Residents | Leah |
Leah's Cottage is a one-room cabin in Cindersap Forest, sitting below Marnie's Ranch with the river running past it. Leah lives there alone and works there: most mornings start with her sculpting, and by the afternoon she has moved to the easel to paint. The door is shut to strangers for most of the year, and two hearts of friendship are needed before she will let anyone in during Spring, Summer or Fall. Winter is the exception, when the latch is off for everyone during the day. Several of her scenes happen inside these four walls, including the early one where the farmer helps her decide whether to sell her work online or put on a show in town, a choice that shapes a later event.
Area
The cottage stands south of Marnie's Ranch on the Cindersap Forest map, close enough to the water that Leah says plainly she likes living next to the river. Outside is forest on three sides, which suits the way she spends her days.
Inside is a single room doing three jobs. A workbench holds whatever she is carving, an easel stands ready for painting, and a bookcase along one wall is where she tends to stop and stand when she has finished for the day. Visiting hours run from the middle of the morning to the early evening, and outside that window the door simply will not open. Marriage makes no difference to this: the cottage keeps its hours even after she has moved out to the farm.
Residents
Leah is the valley's artist and the only person who lives here. Her week has a rhythm worth knowing for anyone courting her. Sculpting fills the morning, and on the days she stays in she shifts to the easel around midday and finishes in front of the bookcase. Rainy days keep her indoors and working, which makes bad weather the most reliable time to find her at home. On Fridays and Saturdays she works through the morning and then walks down to The Stardrop Saloon for the evening.
Fine weather pulls her outside instead. She draws at the pier on the forest pond and at the tide pools on the beach, and she spends a good part of her time simply out in the woods, which is also where the foraged food she likes best comes from.
After marriage she leaves the cottage for the farmhouse and takes her working habits with her. A small room to the right of the house becomes her painting studio, and a patch of ground just behind it becomes the place she sculpts. On rainy mornings she brings mushrooms back and says she has been out hunting for them, and now and then she hands over something foraged while claiming to have grown it.
Notes
The cottage is where her story gets told. At two hearts a visit catches her at work, and she asks what she should do with her art: put it on the internet or hold a show in Pelican Town. Either answer is accepted, and the eight-heart scene follows from it. Choose the website and the eight-heart scene happens here in the cottage; choose the show and it moves into town instead.
One reply in that two-heart scene is worth avoiding. Asking her for a kiss there costs a great deal of friendship and shuts the eight-heart scene down permanently, so the clumsy option is not merely rude, it closes off part of her story for good.
At four hearts another visit lands in the middle of a row. Leah is on the phone to her former partner, arguing, and the farmer walks in on the end of it. Several of the replies offered afterwards cost friendship, so a kind answer is the safe one. Her ten-heart scene finally takes the story outdoors, into Cindersap Forest in the middle of the day, where the ex turns up in person.
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