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located in Valdonia, a part of Dragon Riders of Valdonia, one of the many universes on RPG.

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Character Portrait: Talon Shaw Character Portrait: Tia "Phecda" Alcor
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Tia had spent from dawn to mid-morning searching for Lizard's Tail and had found a good deal of it, luckily enough. She and Alioth had to hurry back to the city-- She needed to open up shop for the morning. Alioth held her in his shell and floated along and she changed out of her baggy, dirty clothes to her normal, expensive ones.

Phecda, I believe we're at the gate.

"Perfect." Tia said, straightening out her clothes. "How do I look?"

Is that a joke?

"No."

...I guess... beautiful? Alioth responded, turning his head to face her. He seemed to be thinking about something else, though Tia couldn't blame him since she asked him a question he couldn't actually answer. But we do need to meet with the guard.

Tia hopped out of the shell, dusting herself off. "Roger." She said, smiling lightly. Alioth's shell rotated a few times until the opening was facing forward. Tia always though he was cute when he peered out from inside--all anyone could see were his teeny yellow eyes.

"Ah. It's just you, Miss Alcor." The young man said, smiling at her. She scowled slightly. She wasn't sure if she liked the guards. Some of them ignored her except to tell her she couldn't do things. The others knew her name. She assumed they bought from her store when she was open, but all the same she didn't like the guards much. "How was your search this morning?"

She tipped her head to one side and then the other as she thought of a response. "...Fine." She said, finally.

The guard chuckled. "Alright. Go on in." He said.

What's with Chuckles over here? Alioth asked. Tia almost smiled.

"I dunno. Should I like the guards?" She responded to Alioth without speaking. Aloud, she said, "Thank you."

"Enjoy your time in the city," He said, like they all did. Tia rolled her eyes, which made him laugh, and passed him.

...Anyway, should I be manning the store front while you work? Alioth asked.

"Might as well." She said. "I'll just use a voice throwing potion to make my voice come from nearby you. You just relay their words to me if you need me. Then I think this'll be all set."

That potion came in handy, didn't it? Alioth marveled.

"...Yeah, for such a huge failure in the beautiful voice draught..." She sighed. "...Well, that's how failing is."

...right. Alioth responded. He seemed to be thinking. Finally he said, Odd that it came from a draught, though.

"I guess you can't permanently change your voice to come from far away." She said with a shrug. "But permanently changing your voice to sounding beautiful? Possible, maybe." Tia sighed. "Considering how much work going into draughts, though..." She shook her head. "In any case, I'm happy that potions are temporary because that means my ability failures won't give me side effects for life."

Maybe if they were draughts...?

"I can't test most draughts on the Rune Dolls." She reminded Alioth. "I have tons of untested draughts... but no prisoners to test them on. Lost cause." Tia sighed. She'd learned to make Rune Dolls in school. They were just giant dolls charmed to work like humans did. She always carried one on her, just in case. The only thing that she could test on them were potions, though. "...It's hard to make people buy untested things."

We're close. Alioth's shell rotated wildly. Tia sighed. Alioth liked dealing anything but dragons and the closer they got to society, the more Alioth would rotate his shell. He did it to block against any attacks towards him. Tia used him as a centrifuge because of that, but right now rotating was a bad idea.

"Calm down, Alioth." She said, which made the rotating slow. "I'm here, right? None of the dragons will bother you. If they do, we just won't sell their partners anything."

You don't get business that way.

"Screw business." Tia said resolutely, heading past a bunch of small stores that were already bugging her to buy things from them. She hated that a lot-- she usually just let people wander towards her store. Alioth had said she wouldn't get business that way either. It made her think she ought to give up on a store, but how else was she going to pay for her life's work?

She passed by a stand where a man was lounging around, seeming to be people watching. Her defenses had gone up the moment she saw his ears-- an elf. It was diluted-- he was an elf and something else, but an elf alone made her defensive. She didn't realize she'd stopped moving and was glaring at the man until Alioth pointed this out.

You know you can just move if you're upset with the fact that elves exist. Or are you just thinking you can take him if he decides to start teasing you about your height?

"Sort of. He doesn't have a partner here."

Sure, but maybe his partner's too big. Maybe he's a racer and his partner's resting up. Maybe his partner is teeny and is in his pocket? Maybe his partner can bend light to be invisible? Maybe his partner is actually a threstral? Maybe--

"Whatever." She said aloud, tossing her hair over her shoulder. She wasn't planning on fighting him, he'd just surprised her...not that Tia was able to fight in the first place. She marched off to where she normally set up shop. Alioth's shell landed lightly and he floated out, landing on the top of the shell.

Phecda. He said as she crawled into the shell. Make sure you drink the voice throwing potion.

Tia looked around inside the shell-- her ingredients and creations sat in pockets she'd molded into the walls, so she only had to search for a few seconds before she found what she needed. Swallowing the potion and grimacing at the bitter taste, she said to Alioth, "Done. I don't mind if you interrupt me, but I'll be in the middle of work. But make sure you ask the dragons you run across about flying us somewhere to get Mandragoras or we'll have to go to the races today and ask a bunch of losers to do it." She picked up a lab coat that she always kept tucked into a pocket in the shell and put that on, depositing her jewelry into the pocket at the same time.

Pleasant as always, Phecda. Understood. Alioth responded with a chuckle. With that, Tia blocked out the rest of the world and began her work for the day.