The woman stood, looking at her reflection in the river. A simple spell had turned it into a more reflective surface, and enable her to study herself. Someone might consider it vanity, using magic like this, but Tori Freestone considered it surviving. Her appearance was quite pointed, refined, and...graceful. Anyone could look at her, and think, she's more then human. Tori liked to be trusted, liked to be over looked. It helped her, enabling her to help others with her magic. Studying her appearance, she changed it to a more human look. Softer features, her eye's just slightly softened, doing so with a quick glamor, that she could maintain for hours. After another minute studying her change appearance-Okay, maybe it was a vanity, a bit-she turned away from the river, and turned towards the camp she had set up. She put the fire out, took down the small tent, and packed it away, carrying it, and her travel pack on her back. She looked about, making sure that there was nothing damaging to the environment, before making her way back to the path she had been following to the city. 

Tori had been traveling for the better part of two years, some time before then spent in her mother's world, the world of Fae, in the summer court, undertaking some basic education in her magic. Before that, she had essentially been ignorant of who she was, living with her father, growing up admiring House Rose, her father having worked for them most of her life. Tori enjoyed traveling, enjoyed the many experience's and places she got to do and see, and the people that she got to help. It was just so...liberating. She knew one day, perhaps soon, she would have to settle down somewhere, where she would create a living. Maybe with a herb and magic shop type thing. .Or maybe somewhere in the Summer Court, she hadn't decided. And she didn't need to for a few years. 

As she walked, she began to sing, softly, her voice quite musical, and she slid into a graceful walk that was almost a dance, that could not be mistaken for anything but. She sang of the warm, soft time of spring, making the words up as she went along, yet stringing them along effectively. She whiled away the hours, as the sun fully rose. She saw the city of Alexandria, she had to stop a minute, simply to take it all in. It was a magnificent city and it just seemed like a picture. The dragons drew her attention, and she took another moment, watching them, their beauty and grace taking her breath away for a moment. They were just such magnificent creatures. Their scales, their colours, glittered in the sun light, glorious and almost like jewels. 

She just had to stop and sketch them. Dragons were perhaps her favorite creature alive, and to be able to experience something like this, it filled Tori with Joy. So she took the time to sketch the dragons. When she was done, she carefully put it away in her travel pack, rising once more, and heading towards Alexandria once more. Being back in a city, with the hustle and bustle of people going about their daily business. It made her feel alive. figuring to secure a place to stay, she checked on how much  money she had. She had enough to stay in a nice place for a few days, and still have enough to live on for a good amount of time. Especially if she could get some work. 

She looked about, searching for an Inn she deemed comfortable enough. She bypassed a shady looking place, deciding that even in the best of cities, there were places that could be considered dangerous. People's nature, especially in a large city, often skewed towards sketchy. traveling, Tori had seen both the best and worst of human nature, and she figured that nothing could surprise her any longer. Fae nature was different. You could never tell what someone of the Summer Court, or the Winter Court were thinking, what their plans were. She realised that she had stopped walking, and was simply looking about. Probably looking quite odd. 

She shook her head, as if shaking out dust. She smiled at herself, and looked about. She looked at a few places, and finally settled on one, booking a room for a few days, smiling and chatting with the owner, asking about their life, how they had come to own the inn, asking if there was anything she could do, and typically being friendly. She asked about meals, and then headed to the room she had paid for. She set her things on the bed, and took a few moments to tie her hair back properly, in a braid, and changed into the better of her traveling clothes, pocketing her money in a hidden pocket. And then she set out once more, simply wondering the city. 

She had some fun, often stopping and talking with people, letting herself make some acquaintances, some connections in the city, and searching out any potential clients. And then she stopped at a few places, purchasing a few things, and continuing to chat. She smiled, and laughed, and carried her purchases as she continued to wander the city. She finally stopped for food, something simple, and tea, reflecting on what she had learned so far. It seemed that the most relevant thing in the city at the moment was the upcoming wedding, as well as things such as the tournament, which connected to the wedding. 

Yet Tori still managed to find a few small jobs that she could do. A lot of people lost things, and this was one of the area's she excelled at. It was a simple matter of connecting one item of the persons with the lost item, yet it could be difficult, especially if there wasn't a strong connection to the item. Yet Tori always periled. Another job or two had to do with creating health potions, or  other things like that. Again, things she liked to work with, and things she could always use the practice on. It pleased her that she was able to get easy jobs, but she did also explore the other option of learning more magic. Se had been having trouble finding good sources of magic, except at the Summer Court, but did not want to rely too much on the Fae. they tended to hold favors for a long time, something she had found out quite early. 

She sat reflecting on that thought, sipping her tea. Her mother's people weren't all that bad, if you knew them, and Tori did enjoy her time there. And she had been offered once or twice the position her mother held. Yet she could not help but think of her mothers words to her father. 

_I'm scared for her_

It was a massive negative to not staying in the Summer Court. Finishing her drink, she rose and continued to wander the city.