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 Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 8:40 pm
This, is Katrina Amaterasu.
Katrina is running, yes. She was caught.
Not caught as in caught, rather, she was caught in her cheating games.
So yes, Katrina is now running through the village, with plenty of guards at her tail. This young gypsy is quite used to running, if you see her, you can tell she is nimble, jumping over obstacles, and sliding over the counters of diffrent stands. Surely, now was not the time to think of how physically impossible it seemed for a young lady to run up a wall before easing herself over it. Yes, this is how Katrina lived her daily life.
Katrina had been playing a card trick and tricking passbyers out of a few yen, but when someone called shenanigans, and the guards came she just had to run. Anyway, back to Katrina running. After running and throwing herself over the wall, she made a turn, and ran some more. The gypsy was running out of breath, and making a second turn she bumped into one of the many, many residents of Gensokyo, but for her luck, into one of the infamous ones: Kazami Yuuka.
The poor girl fell back, before looking up to Yuuka, and down the street where the sound of guards where comming from. "Gah! Sorry, can you hide me?!" She jumped to her feet, moving to hide in one of the boxes in the alleyway, praying Yuuka would not point her out to the guards!
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:17 pm
It was another day, and another trip to the village for supplies. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary, until Yuuka caught wind of nearby commotion. She stopped to listen, when suddenly a young girl collided into the Flower Youkai. Yuuka barely acknowledged Katrina bumping into her. She looked down with her usual apathetic gaze at the young girl, tapping the handle of her parasol in thought, and perhaps, annoyance. "Just what do you think you-" Before Yuuka could finish, the girl scurried behind some nearby boxes, pleading for safety. In the distance, shouts of men echoed, closing in on where she stood. Yuuka sighed, and awaited to hear whatever the guards had to say...
Humans can be so troublesome.
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:23 pm
The guards made it to Yuuka, sure, but the clueless humans had no idea that the flower youkai was somehow related to the girl they where looking for. Yuuka could probably hear their bickering over which way the trickster had gone, but dismissing all signs of the strange youkai standing there, they split and went diffrent ways.
Now that things quieted down, Katrina peeked from behind the boxes,"Are they gone?"
She came out from her hiding spot, she was dressed in a dark color dressed. It seemed to be a one piece, with a sort of shirt over it with a belt holding it to her waist."...they really are gone?"
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:43 pm
"Your eyes must fail you, human. Surely you can see that for yourself - or perhaps not, since you so blindly ran into me." Yuuka replied with a flat tone, turning to the girl as she reappeared from her refuge.
She twirled the parasol on her shoulder slowly, giving Katrina a cold stare. "So tell me, why were these men after you? Surely they were not simply dogging you for your looks, and from the expression on your face..." she took a step forward, casting her judging gaze ever closer, "...I'd say you were in trouble. Am I correct?
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 9:53 pm
"Ah-Ah....I was just making sure-!" Katrina said, flustered at Yuuka's coldness,"Sorry for bumping into you, I was running an-"
"..."
"Yes, I got caught making a living." The gypsy of sorts sighed shaking her head,"I was running a small card trick stall and I git busted. People around here don't take well to being fooled I guess!"
"i wasn't doing anything illegal!"
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 10:25 pm
"Of course. Cheating people out of their hard-earned money certainly isn't against the law." Yuuka said with a knowing smile. "But, I'm sure those guards are still looking for you."
"Where do you live? I'll take you home, so you can't cause any more trouble today." The human village was small, so returning the girl to her home wouldn't take much time out of Yuuka's journey. And if the men lost their quarry for some time, then perhaps things would quiet down again.
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Posted: Sun May 13, 2012 10:31 pm
"We were playing a game and they lost," Katrina chuckled with a shrug,"At least they lost it to someone who won't use it for wrong things."
"Home?" The girl rubbed the back of her head,"Erm, I don't really have a home, I usually sleep somewhere in the forest of magic..."
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 9:03 am
"Yes, a game where the house always wins..." Wait. Why did Yuuka care about any of this? What this girl did or didn't do should be of no concern to the Flower Youkai. She was about to turn to leave, when the girl mentioned being homeless.
"Oh?" The oddity piqued Yuuka's interest. "So you're the sort of person who doesn't have a home...? Perhaps I should have let those men capture you. I'm sure they would have given a pretty young girl like you a nice place to live." Another smirk creased her face.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 3:24 pm
"Its a game nevertheless,"Katrina smiled, with hands on her hips,"And I won, they fell for it. I know it isn't right but, it's a living!"
"Gaaah, don't do that please!"The gypsy's face twisted into a pout,her eyebrows knitted together into some pitiful look,"Those Nasty guards do bad stuff. They are worse than the folk they catch!"
"I am not homeless, I never had a home...We are nomads,"The girl continued,"And we are peaceful nomads, we don't deserve what people do to us. Actually, not having a house is nice...sleep when and where you want, and not material attachement...We aren't buddhist-"
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:29 pm
"I see." Yuuka replied. "I haven't seen one of your kind in quite some time. Most humans who attempt to live outside the village get eaten by Youkai. I suppose you and your clan must be lucky."
Katrina had made an amusing face, which made Yuuka chuckle. "Well, home or no home, my silence isn't cheap. If you don't want me alerting the authorities, then you'll have to do something for me..."
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 7:39 pm
"We are strong for humans!" Katrina said,"W-we really can withstand lots of awful weather and lots of bad territory!"
"G-gah?" The gypsy falttered," What do you want me to do...? I gained but a few Yen, and I don'y have much more than what I carry on me-"
What did this lady want from her?!
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:07 pm
"You're going to help me buy groceries today." Yuuka said with a smile, unfastening the woven basket from her shoulders and handing it to Katrina. The contents of the basket were somewhat heavy, consisting of vegetables that had been freshly picked that very same morning, ready to be traded off for whatever sundries her garden couldn't provide.
"What is your name, my dear?"
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:13 pm
"Grocer-" The bag was dropped onto her arms, with a soft grunt she quickly regained her balance. The bag was sure heavy for being filled with veggies and the like!
When Yuuka asked for her name, the girl looked up,"I go by the namw Katrina, though not many know of me or anything!" She was quite a silen girl, but seeing as how Yuuka had begun wih questions she had hesitated little to respond.
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:25 pm
"Katrina? What an odd name... I can't say I've ever heard anything like it around here, and I've been around for a long time. You and your clan must have come from far away."
Yuuka turned on her heel, back towards the direction she had been heading in in the first place, before being interrupted by the young Gypsy. She motioned for Katrina to follow her. "Come. We have a few stops to make."
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Posted: Mon May 14, 2012 8:33 pm
"Y-es, we come from be- Eh-?" Katrina blinked, quickly hurrying to keep up with Yuuka's long strides,"I am comming!" The bag was heavy but the girl could carry it just fine, quickly hurrying along to follow after Yuuka.
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