_As almost always these days, Cherry has her children witih her. While still a handful, they are old enough to behave themselves in public. Arel'in, the eldest of the three and Cherry and Aramuil's only daughter, is a big help to her mother today, keeping her twin little brothers in line when Cherry is busy gathering the foodstuffs they willl need for tonights dinner and food for the nest few days.
After Cherry pays the storekeeper a small bag of gold, she heards her children back to the Grapevine to get things ready for dinner and finish their studies for the day before Aramuil got home.
If he wasn'tgoing to be late again, Cherry half-mumbled to herself on the way out._