[centre][h2]Sera[/h2][/centre]

Chewing on her last slice of bread Sera checked her leather bag one more time. Yup, everything in there. This was it, her last straw. If she didn't get enough money from the artifact she was carrying in her bag right now to finance another artifact recovery operation, she was done for. It'd be back to collecting food scraps for her, something she didn't need to have to do since her 12th birthday. It seemed like all the close ruins had been picked dry by somebody else.
She knew of Tivo more or less hanging around the ruins all the time, but as far as Sera knew, he wasn't in it for the money. 
In her time as scavenger, she had run into him from time to time, but mostly ignoring his presence as much as possible. To disturb Sera's work was to disturb her income. 
Now, though, it seemed dire. With a long, drawn out sigh, Sera stared at the trinket in the bag. It was a golden goblet, engraved with a depiction of some event. Sera was no specialist, but she assumed it described a coronation, so she hoped it was worth at least a little. Maybe even to the royal family.
[color=ed145b]"Well, then... Let's go and meet fate..."[/color], she muttered as she shouldered the leather bag.
Sera exited her small house, which she bought a few years ago to stay off the street, lying at the border of Heron. She adored the swung roof and the slightly isolated location on top of a little hill with a perfect view to the marketplace.

Slowly Sera strolled down the dirt pathway down the hill until it became cobblestone, she bee-lined for her favourite trader.
"Good morning, Sera. Got something for me?", he yelled as soon as he saw her. More or less, he owed Sera most of his fortune, so he was quite thankful to her and always excited to see her.
[color=ed145b]"Yeah. Can you give me a good estimate for this?"[/color]
Sera took out the trinket and placed it on the trader's table.
Said trader aaahhh'd and ooohhh'd at the sight of the trinket. "This is really good. Have you kept that in a hidden stash until now?"
Sera shook her head. [color=ed145b]"I'm out of money, so this is my last one."[/color], she confessed.

A bit later, Sera, now a lot more happy than in the morning sat down on a bench munching a sweet pie she had bought with the money she had just gotten. This seemed to have been the best loot she had ever sold, so she was quite eager to celebrate, but after this, it was back to shopping for food to equip her next scavenging trip. But for now, she chewed happily on the pie.