“I’ll be working for one of the merchants in the marketplace.”

“Well that’s an impressive find, but what are you actually doing?” your mother asks.

“Umm… well I’m going to be an assistant of sorts. I have to move in with him and play housekeeper and otherwise I’ll be helping with running errands and the like.”

“Sounds charming,” you hear [your sister] murmur.

“I don’t know about this sweetie. Moving in with a strange man you’ve only just met what if he has… other intentions. Or if he isn’t quite who he claims to be? You have to be careful this isn’t a provincial village it’s Camelot, and there are all sorts of seedy people here as well as the good.” your mother points out.

Your father merely grunts, you’re uncertain whether it’s in agreement to Ma’s statements or if he’s expressing drunken indifference.

[Your brother] is, to no great surprise, much blunter with his criticisms.

“You need to get more details before agreeing to something like this. Have him write up a contract at least. Most of the vendors I know don’t operate like this when it comes to new help. You need to leave your country child naivety behind if your going to stand a shot of prospering in the city. Living with someone who has complete control over your economics places you totally at their mercy.”

“Yeah well at least it gets me some space from you,” you retort.

“[Your name]! You shouldn’t talk to your brother like that,” Ma scolds.

“Sorry. I just… I need you to trust me to make my own decisions. I am a [sex] now and I’m standing with this decision.”

Your determined gaze locks on your mother’s equally intensive look, and for a moment there is nothing but the two of you communicating a lifetime of struggle, shared and opposed. You know why she’s worried and she knows why it matters to you to do it anyway. The silent conversation is no longer then a few heart beats yet in that time you feel like an understanding has been reached.

“Well then… good luck sweetie,” Mom says finally.

The rest of the meal follows in silence, though no one seems bothered by it. After helping to clean up the family disperses to their own areas for the evening. This would be a good chance to talk to someone in your family before you get bogged down in your new occupation.