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The half half jumped off the beast carcass, “Yuck! We aren’t keeping any of this gross Shit, Caldrins are nasty as hell, we are just gonna sell it all, i mean about half a ton of Caldrin meat and the bones and shell will give us mad Alis alone, but being as I am so good at what we do I got us like 10 malrins as well and those pelts are highly sought after right now. Genji you skinned the malrins already right, because the old man at the docks always buys the pelt right off the boat, and thanks to us his clothing shop has thriving.” The large man nodded his head with a smile, as his boss walked away.
“Man Ecko is sure excited about something, well I can’t really say there is no reason to, beating a Caldrin is a feat to be proud of alone and he got it done with a broken sword and three arrows with his cracked bow.” The man slowly began to skin the large beast cutting at the meat from the bone, “ Man i wish he didn’t hate Caldrin so much i would have loved to have some of this.”
Ecko walked into the ship’s cockpit where he saw the ship’s pilot sitting in his chair with his feet up relaxing, Ecko walked up next to him smiling, “ The view is beautiful isn’t it?” Ecko said as he looked through the the display on the screen meant for the pilot to see all angles around him, “ I see why you enjoy this so much, everything seems calm from in here but we are docking soon should you really be relaxing right now,?” Ecko asked he placed his hand on his pilot’s shoulders and began to squeeze, “ I mean I don’t what would happen to someone who crashed my beautiful Charlotte.”
The Pilot pushed Ecko’s hand off, his shoulder and smiled, “Calm yourself Ecko I would never do such a thing.” the pilot began to look at the surrounding screens as the pulled into the docking area and looked for an open dock. “ It seems we are stuck waiting all the docks are taken up right now. So Ecko what made you think I would crash this it means as much to me as it does to you, and i bet the big oaf thinks the same, I mean we didn’t leave Telkur’s Ship with you to be a 3 man crew because we thought we were that great, we did because we wanted freedom and we trusted your skill, the two us have been on a team for almost 6 years now, you should trust me you know.”
Ecko smiled as a ship began to pull out, “There’s a dock, but you are right this is all three of ours home after all. Well we gotta cash everything in quickly it has been awhile since we have been able to rest and hit the pubs.”
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The best Marisha could speak of was killing a wild bore that had been terrorizing a local's garden. She scoffed at that and coming to the pub she swung the door open and stepped inside. As she moved inside her nose was assault by the stale smell of ale, faded wisp of tobacco and the faded singing of the owner Kragen, a long ago retired Hunter who'd opened up his pub to see off future generations of Hunters as they traveled the wastelands. She eased herself past the sleeping mungrel and into the back room where Kragen was preparing his Ralas famous mudduggin soup. When asked what a mudduggin was Kragen was all too happy to inform her it was a type of slimy insect,much like a worm, only found on Ralas that somehow made the soup taste better. Stepping up behind him she jabbed a finger into his back and altering her tone a little to give it a more huskier sound she chided,
"Don't ye be movin' or I'll be a putting a hole through your spine." Kragen froze, his back stiffening before he eased the spoon out and spun quickly to swat his would be attacker.
Marisha was quicker as she stepped back and leaned to avoid the spoon and grabbing his arm gave a slight tug before she jerked it down and upwards to lock it behind his back. He gave a yelp and leaning slightly remained restrained. She couldn't help but chuckle in amusement. "Kragen my old man your getting too slow," she mocked. Releasing him he shook his head with a growl.
"You merely caught me off my guard child, had I not been humming i'd have taken your sweet little bum down without even breaking a sweat." Raising a brow she smirked and picking up his spoon which had fallen in the tussle and cleaned it before handing it to him.
"Oh I've no doubt." her tone dripping with mockery once more.
"I'll go finish setting up the pub while you make your," her lip curled slightly, "soup and other foods."
With that she exited the back and proceeded to turn down each chair and pull the wooden covers from the windows to shed some light on the musky room. After a short time the place was ready to recieve visitors. Marisha took this time to slide the keyboard cover from the piano back and ready it for when Sybil arrived to play. The rest of the small city would also be coming alive and preparing their day.
It took away from her studies and practice.
She sighed, it didn't help that the gun she was working on needed everything in the right place or it would blow up in her face on the first attempt to shoot.
Just... One more piece... She thought to herself, as an attempt to calm her already overworked mind. She watched as she painstakingly placed the gear in the mid section and pushed it slightly until Eli heard a faint click.
Sighing with relief, she stood up as she easily snapped the other half of the weapon together, and turned to the counter behind her, which was already full with various parts of guns, arrows, and a small bin full of bullets and arrowheads. Frowning, Eli carelessly shoved the parts to one side and grabbed a display, placing it next to the pile. The damage was done already to the workshop it seemed, as the small room was full of junk that included small brass parts and tools for fixing weapons. The only places clear of the mess was a large wooden desk, the only things that would be considered clutter surrounding it were various blueprints and and Eliese's best tools for upgrading, fixing, and breaking the weapons she either bought, or found discarded.
As she mused about her activities of late, she shrugged and flipped the sign to display an "Out Back, follow the path on your left" sign. True to her word, she brought out a small plethora of weapons she had fixed and upgraded. None of them were what she would really be proud of, but she wanted to test them out nonetheless.
The "back" contained a few indestructible targets and a few mechanisms that caused the targets themselves to move.
"First up, a magic amplifier~" She quietly sang out as she felt a burst of energy enter her body as she gripped the gun shaped amplifier. Placing her palm on the gun, vines intertwined with her fingers and soon covered her forearm altogether she pushed the energy through her palm and into the object, watching as the vines followed the flow and attacked the target, which was now covered from the bottom to top with roots and vines, snaking in and out of openings and forming slight dents in the steel.
Waving her hand, the vines fell to the ground, immediately lifeless and slowly disappeared into a pile of ash.
She continued testing the weapons as she waited for customers to visit, and perhaps she would actually make some money today...
"Curse you..." she muttered under her breath, remembering why she was there. Her owner had sent her to Ralfar, far away from her home, in order to get some new slaves off the market. Apperantly there was a "bigger selection" here than back in Aria. Of course, her owner didn't want to be viewed badly, which is why he sent her there instead.
Who in their right mind would send a half-demon to buy other demons? No one would take her seriously, she could get kidnapped (apperantly half-demons were more 'desirable' than full demons), and the fact that she had to buy those of her own kind... it didn't make sense!
Well, at least her owner couldn't see what she was doing here. If she was lucky, she could find someone of higher status here to remove the electric collar around her neck. Of course, she would need to come up with a good reason to why they should remove a stranger's collar just like that and hide the fact that her owner would be able to track them down...
She ran a little more, spotting a dark bar at a street corner. Maybe here? If people were drunk, maybe they would do it more easily?
She quietly entered the bar, looking for someone drunk enough to remove her collar.
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