They collapsed at the threshold of the building burning with fever of illness. The one being made to pay penance for their arrogance was made to care for this poor, bedraggled, individual, and it was far from easy. But when the fever broke and health began to return, the arrogant one truly understood the benefits of kindness over greed.
https://peakd.com/fiction/@internutter/challenge-04772-m023-read-the-instructions -- BKF
[AN: I read the original and no fever was mentioned. So this has to be something.... interpretive...]
It took four days for Tentarou to remember to make his bed after he rose from it. The Fae who ran this place put his first tasks on the inside of the door to his tiny room. For four weeks, the list said, Turn around. Make your bed. Take out the chamber pot. Clean the chamber pot.
Most of his days were washing dishes, washing and hanging up bedclothes, cleaning privies and chamber pots, and sweeping out the hearth. At least they let him have a bath at the end of the day.
It took him two weeks to remember to clean up his mess in the bathing chamber, too. This morning, after the usual run of chamber pots, his list had one item. Care for the being in bedchamber three.
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