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Clara took her arm around his. She saw a smile on his face. She smiled back

"Here I have a bit of money, why don't I take you shopping? You can replace anything those oafs took from you on me, and please, don't worry about the cost. Treating a woman of your caliber is enough reward for me." Her eyes widened. Derrin was going to pay for the stuff. That made her smile even more. She really did want to get Helen, Rajin, and Tibarn a gift. Though before she got hit with the arrow she really want to make sure she had a gift for Rajin.

Clara and Derrin had walked a bit and something caught her eye. She stopped walking and since her arm was around Derrin's, he was going to stop too.

"Oh look Derrin." She said, "Lets go in here I think there might be something in her that Miss Helen will like." She pulled on his arm and she went into the store.

The Tempest King

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((Is not double post..... shut up your crazy and Isadora.... when I see you in the blast we are going to have a nice chat about scarring people irreversibly))

Just as Joshua felt a pair of arms wrap around him and screw up his jump he knew it was game over, once again finding himself being rolled over by someone twice his mass he wasn’t very surprised when he felt himself falling landing with a soft thump in a wagon. Joshua was surprised though when he found himself on a bed of roses.

"Who the ********, carts roses like this?!" He questioned, Joshua wasn’t one to cuss but he figured swearing wouldn't matter at this point... with all he'd been through he deserved it.

Oh crap, while distracted by the fact that they had just fallen into a bed of roses which was perhaps one of the most unlikely things someone would be carting around " Seriously WHY?" Rajin quickly mounted him, twining his leg around Joshua's to prevent the swordmaster from kicking.

"R-Rajin! Snap out of it!" Joshua had one option left, reaching up he grabbed the tigers neck and pulled himself up with all his might, it didn't really work out. In fact now it looked like he was hugging the man, there was no option left. Hearing that a cat's ears were sensitive Joshua began rubbing them softly, he had a plan now... alls he needed was an opening.

If that meant rubbing a kitty's ears as opposed to what Rajin was planning, then he'd rub a kitty's ears.




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Derrin,
Major Grouch

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"It's nice," Derrin said looking at the charm, “But I think it would look better on you.” Well, Miss Helen didn’t sound like a man’s name so he was clear on that front. But he seemed to have worried her somehow and that startled him as much as the time in Estarcia when his magic failed him.

"No everything’s fine." He answered back as he paid for the small charm. While he was handed back the charm something else caught his eye; in the glass case was a beautiful necklace. It seemed to be made out of gold and had a small sword on the end with a diamond set in its tiny hilt, shining prettily in the light it captivated Derrin with its beauty much like Clara had.

"Diamonds! Derrin! Every girl loves diamonds! This is why we should build a diamond mine! It’s genius!"

If he remembered Jaren had once told him that, and Derrin, who had never bothered to get this close to anyone before decided to take his advice, well not the second half. As strange as it sounded for anyone to take advice from that fool he really had nothing else to go on and he wanted her to feel the same way about him as he did for her.
".... How much is that?" He asked pointing at the necklace, and when the store owner quoted the price he found it just within his range.

"I'll take it." He said simply as he dropped enough gold on the counter and was handed the necklace. Once Clara and the mage had left the store and walked a little bit in some random direction he stopped suddenly and showed her what else he’d bought (As if she hadn’t seen him buy it), "I think you'd look really nice if you wore this." He said while looking away to hide the fact of how red he was. "I won't take no for an answer." With one hand he pressed the charm for Helen into her palm, and then he looked back before leaning down slightly to her eye level.

Reaching both hands around her neck holding an end of the simple gold chain in each, he pushed aside her ponytail and he clasped the necklace around her neck, letting the ponytail fall back onto her neck over top of his hands, his face lingered close to her's as he was stunned for a moment, then without thinking about it the grouchy mage pulled her in close for a kiss. His heart started racing, and seemed to stop at the same time as he leaned towards her.



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Melethia saw the man apologize for what he was doing, after he got up from being rolled over by the barrels. He wasn't doing a good job of keeping eye contact with her. She got quite bored with him. She then saw Roy running like crazy. She blinked for a bit then shoved the man out of her way and ran after Roy.

As she ran she heard Roy's loud no yell. Instincts told her Roy was in trouble, so she ran as fast as she could following Roy's scent. She had made it to the Hostess Club where Roy was standing there looking shocked. What was he so shocked about? She turned her head to where Roy was looking at. She saw Ganon had proposed to a woman. That woman looked familiar. Wait wasn't she Roy's mother. It all came together. That's why Roy yelled so loudly.

"Um, Roy," She said trying to get his attention, "Roy?" She waved a hand in front of his face. "Roy, can you hear me?"

Rei only stared, his eyes getting gradually wider, as Nils had shushed him. If he couldn't think of an actual reply, it had to have been nothing more than spur of the moment pants-controlling-the-mind. And that's just bad, especially for a person who looks like they're maybe 13, but is really over a millennium old.

Or course, the bard going in to kiss him again was absolutely baffling. Rei, in response, only gasped (as well as he could) and shoved Nils away once more. "Jeez, Nils, if your boyfriend wasn't meeting your standards, you could have just said so." Rei sneered, shooting him a dirty glare as his hands turned into clenched fists. "I mean, look where you work. Not like you'd have any trouble replacing him..."

Rei took a small breath, keeping his hands still in fists. If he got any closer, Rei would most likely turn to violence. Nothing too drastic, just a punch, but still. "And I mean, I know I'm smart, and attractive, but I'm not that amazing, Nils. You can do so much better."

While she was waiting for her answer from Derrin, he turned around a coughed quite a bit. Was his sick? If he was, why would he be out here in the cold? Then a faint scent hit her nose. Was it blood? Why would she smell blood? Clara was very confused at this point. When Derrin turned back around she tried to hide the fact that she was confused.

"You'll have to lead, I'm not sure where the Duke's Head is." He told her.

"I know where it is." She said as she took his arm. As she walked she wondered what was with that coughing. "Derrin," She asked, "Are you ok? You were coughing quite a lot back there."

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"Aw maan, this was a bad idea..."

Down the streets of Eyris, Abel walked cautiously. Today was a special day, and he wanted to get something special, for Alihi. He was no good at the romance thing. He could only hope that he had enough coin on him to buy something nice for her. After all, that's what people did on this day, right? They bought something for the one they loved? Abel didn't really understand, but if he didn't get Alihi anything, it might hurt her feelings.

But as the boy got further into the city, he could see people glaring at him. ...They still harbored ill feelings toward him. He couldn't blame them. If one of his loved ones had been killed by some psycho, he would hate the person forever, until justice was served. In fact, he knew all too well what that was like. He would have to come to grips that nobody wanted him around here, anymore.

"Hey! You!" A voice rang out suddenly. Abel looked over and saw that several men were coming over to him. The women followed closely behind, wearing vengeful expressions of their own. "You've got some nerve coming around here, kid! Remember last time?!" Abel thought back to the harvest festival, when he was nearly beat up and had to run all the way to the castle, for the party. The citizens were trying to pummel him. Things were getting a little too uncomfortable now, too. Abel took a step back, as the mob came closer. "We'll make sure you learn your lesson, brat!"

Abel gulped once, knowing that this would probably not end well.