Challenge #04691-L307: In the Hour of Greatest Need

An apprentice healer saves a mysterious stranger from a fever. The thankful stranger gives the healer a box, promising that when the time comes, the box will open and the debt will be repaid. -- Deathshead419

Devryq never knew the stranger's name. They were just a fellow traveler at the waystation-house. One in need, because they were deep in a fever. Deveryq hadn't thought of rewards, just of the need ze could see to.

It didn't matter that the stranger was a Hellkin. Nor that this was one of the most inhospitable waystation-houses on any given roadway.

What mattered was that one more life had a chance. That might be why the Hellkin pressed the box into hir hands. Their grasp of the Trader's Tongue was weak. "You take. No money, me. You take. When open? Is pay."

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