((For EmperialTeal and botticelliangel! heart Ignore the extremely random title. I'm good at random.))
Emperial and Third walked along the streets of Gaia, strolling with seemingly no purpose when in fact they had a very good one. They were wasting time. Emperial, in her zeal to avoid being late, had "accidentally" arrived forty-five minutes early for their appointment at the Clinic and the other half of the appointment, her longtime friend and general nuisance to society Rikard Prowley, was as usual running late. Probably as late as Emperial was early.
So, to kill time, they wandered around the streets of Gaia looking at random pet shops and picking up trash and gold. There seemed to be a lot more gold floating around nowadays, but one had to be careful. Apparently a lot of the gold was dirty, the product of unsavory off-Gaia transactions, and even touching the stuff could see a person banned.
Constant nosed around some ten feet ahead of Third and Emperial, looking for small animals to chase. She never chased them far, since she could not leave Third's side for long, but the hunt was more than enough to keep her occupied.
Emperial was fairly interesting company, often making seemingly random comments such as, "I think bananas are best when they're a little green" and "I wonder if cat tastes anything like chicken?" or even "It isn't fair the way people trample the grass, but at the same time, it makes pathways, like animals tracks through the forest. Deer tracks. And gradually they expand into roads over time."
Third suddenly began to feel something from his Crystal, a faint impression of a direction. He swiveled his head around towards it.
((And enter another Crystal? smile ))
