[RP] Dirty and Hungry

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Olive

[RP] Dirty and Hungry

Post by Olive »

Olive ran out into the square, and looked from left to right. The loaf of bread was clutched tightly in her fist and the delicious smell tempted her to devour it on the spot. But first, she needed to be sure she'd ditched the baker and his son. She picked up her pace and began to run, dodging between strangers as artfully as a dancer. Looking over her shoulder, she could no longer see her pursuers, but Olive managed to kick her foot directly into a stone, which sent her sprawling into the the dirt. The young girl swore words under her breath that no ten year old should know. The warm bread was still in her fist, but had come at a cost. She briefly watched the trickle of blood run down her arm, mingling with the dirt.

She scrambled to her feet and darted for the nearest alleyway, hiding in the shadows to cram the meager ration down her throat. Piece by piece, the ripped chunks of bread disappeared as Olive stood and watched the townspeople from the shadows. As she chewed, the pain in her belly slowly started to abate, but her thirst was growing. Carefully, she watched as people went about their way, noting which of the taverns was busiest. With a little bit of luck, she could slip in unnoticed and relieve a patron of their beverage.

With the last bit of bread in her mouth, the girl futilely tried to wipe the dirt off of her hands and onto her dirty trousers. Running her fingers through her hair was of little help, the mats would only be helped by a knife. There was no chance of looking presentable, but she made her way over to her mark nonetheless.
Olive

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Thoroughly disgruntled from such cramped corners, Olive glared at the one who had released her while she stretched her back and took in her surroundings. She wasn't about to make things easy on this new master and took the first opportunity she had to hop through an open window. Terrible thing, to leave a window cracked in such cold weather. Once her feet hit the ground, the little imp grinned at the fresh air. It had been too long, a few hours or a few years, it didn't matter which. She skittered around the building, looking to lose herself in the maze of buildings before the master realized what had happened.

Darting back and forth, she made sure no one had followed her before she made the air crackle a bit with heat. Rags were such an inappropriate thing to wear in the middle of winter. "Now," she pondered, "what to do, what to do?" as a mischievous grin spread across her face. She was back in Fenia, and it was all for the taking.
Olive

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As the imp wandered around the city, she noticed more humans than she recalled from her previous visit to the Viceroyalty and so she slipped into her old disguise of a 10 year old girl, one not likely to be noticed. Hey, it had gotten her a free pair of shoes before. And maybe, just maybe, she could avoid that witch who had bound her for so long. But she noticed a few fae around too, and they had that nasty habit of being able to see her for what she was. "Annoying little pests," Olive grumbled. Wasn't fair that her kind got the bad reputation when they were usually just as nasty.

She was so caught in her own grumbling, that she nearly bumped into someone at the back of a large crowd. Her eyes lit up, potential for mischief surrounding her. Eavesdropping, pick pocketing, or simply poking people, the possibilities were endless. She wiggled her way through the crowd, keeping her ears open for bits of information.

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Rasya

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Post by Rasya »

Ras had grown tired of sitting in the castle. So in the high of the day, she had adorned her riding cloak, finding a hidden passage in her many nights in the castle, she took it and made her way to the town. She kept the cloak around her shoulder and the hood too pulled over her. The cloak was long enough to cover the exquisite designs that were tailored upon her dress. Rasya most likely should have taken a guard, but she was more then certain that no one would even miss if she was gone. Making her way quickly to the town.

It wasn't hard to see that she was rather pleased to be mingling in the crowd of people. Acting as if she was one of them. She was certain her cousins and even Zuan would have a fit that she was out in public with no escort. But honestly she didn't really feel apart of them yet and was still discovering these new found talents she had started to have happen to her.

Ras had been standing and looking over a vendor when a girl came rushing past her. Nearly knocking the vase she had in her hands to the ground below."Hey!" she exclaimed. Watching as the dirty girl may have paused for a second, only to disappear in the crowd.Tilting her head for a second she thought she had seen her before. Thinking she may have been the girl in the tavern from the night before she made herself a mental note to perhaps speak to her when she came around again.
Olive

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Olive froze as a woman called out after being bumped, but only as a moment as her impulse to flee took over. She scurried around a corner and peered back at the potter's stall, looking for the source of the voice. Her heart thumped as she saw the woman, sure she had seen her before. A witch, wasn't she? she wrung her hands together. Is she following me? Olive mumbled to herself, worried that her master had found her. She rubbed her head, think, think, think! But she'd been in such a hurry to escape before, she hadn't seen who had bound her.

Her eyes grew large at the vase in the woman's hands. Was that what she'd been kept in? If she could break it, maybe she'd be free. Pulling a walnut out of her pocket, her nimble fingers worked the edge of the shell as continued to watch. Once the nut gave way to her nails and cracked open, she popped the morsel into her mouth and took careful aim.

One after the other, walnut shells hurled towards the woman.
Rasya

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Ras had been looking over some pottery when all of a sudden she felt something hit her. Looking around she let it go, and then when they started to pelt her, she nearly dropped the vase she was holding. "What in the..." she said looking towards the direction of the where they were coming from. Ras would bat them away the best she could as they came at her. People around her too were looking for the direction of them. Then she caught sight of the girl.. "You!"exclaiming, as she pointed at her... "Come here!" she said making her way through the crowds in attempts to get to the girl.
Olive

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It had seemed like such a lovely plan until the woman turned and discovered her. Olive's eyes went wide and she spun around into the alleyway, dodging women washing their threadbare clothes in buckets of dirty water. Her bare feet splashed through the muck and mud and soiled snow as she zigged and zagged deeper and deeper into the slums. She kept checking over her shoulder to see if the woman still followed her, not daring to slow her stride.

She had no time to change her appearance and on one such peering back, Olive lost track of her path and smacked square into a rather large man in the process of emptying a waste pot into the street. The swearing could be heard for miles around with both the man and Olive covered in some undescribed filth. The man grabbed her by the collar and she squirmed against his fat paw, squealing and legs flailing.

"You good for nothing! King outta take you lot and keep you in pens for cannon fodder!" Drops of spittle flew into Olive's face along with the man's curses. As his grip tightened, her legs flailed more frantically, desperate to hit a sensitive target. Now, facing a witch didn't sound so bad, even if they kept her locked up safe in a vase.
Kira_Thra

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Post by Kira_Thra »

The market square was busy and the many feet had trampled what snow had fallen into a mucky slush. Kira had made a pocket out of the fullness of her cloak which served a twice-fold purpose. It kept the hem of her cloak from the muck and gave her a place to stash her purchases. The silver thread of the embroidered wolf's head which adorned the shoulder of the cloak glinted and winked in the weak winter sunlight.

She was frugal with her expenditures and was weighing the advantages of two cooking pots when a sharp "Hey" cause her look around in the direction of the voice. It had been a female's voice and Kira scanned the faces in the square. One woman stood out amongst the rest for her eyes were also scanning the area as if looking for something or someone, however she returned her attention to the vendor and the vase she was inspecting.

Kira was about to return to her own shopping when her sharp eyes caught movement. Something was being hurled at the woman. Her eyes followed the movement back and discovered it was a small child hiding around a corner throwing something at the woman. Now the woman had discovered the child and was calling after her as she began to thread her way through the square.

The child moved and in that moment Kira briefly saw something that was not a child. Was the child a shape-shifter, Kira wondered? Intrigued, Kira forgot the cooking pots and began to follow the pair.
Rasya

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Ras made her way through the square finding that finding the small girl was harder then expected, but then when she about gave up a man came out of no where and scoped the girl up. She could tell the girl didn't want to be anywhere near the man, nor did she wish to be man handled as well. She cold tell the girl was struggling and shouting at him. But over the shouts of the square she couldn't make it out.

Ras looked around a moment, as she then took a step into a nearby door well, out of the sight of the crowd.Her hood would fall down around her shoulders as she did so, revealing her face, as she closed her eyes, and opened her hand. She was still attempting to figure out the full force of her powers. She had yet to find someone that perhaps would help her, train her, though she was grasping at it a bit. Closing her eyes, she would focus on her hand, and when she did a small ball of light would appear. Looking then to where the girl and the burly man was the ball of light shot across to the pair, knocking the man flat on his back, allowing the small girl to fall from his grasp. Raysa eyes would widen a bit, as she couldn't believe what she had just accomplished. Quickly looking around, she threw her hood back over her head and stepped from the darkened doorway, and made her way to blend in with the crowd, just in case it had been seen
Kira_Thra

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Post by Kira_Thra »

A bright flash flew through the air causing Kira to blink. When she opened her eyes, a man and the changeling was down. In the brief moment before the flash all Kira had seen was the man holding onto the child, if such she was, and the child struggling to free herself. From a deep-set doorway, the same direction from which it had seemed the light emanated, the woman appeared but immediately tried to lose herself in the crowd.

For an indecisive moment, Kira wondered which to follow. Just before the woman completely disappeared, Kira darted after her.
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