[center][h1][color=gold] Vashti [/color][/h1][/center]

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Vashti had almost been about to respond to the curt white haired butler, but the Automata's response and pout to being called "crazy" left the half-Alv turning around to face her. 

[color=gold]"You literally said you were going to explode me while chasing after me, remember? That is not exactly an 'un-crazy' thing to say to someone over a matter of petty theft. And i didn't know if you were serious about that or not, really,"[/color] the half-Alv said to her now former pursuer, crossing her arms with the broken mirror in one hand, [color=gold]"Besides, i left the stuff i grabbed from that perverted shopkeeper back in that other shop i just came out of. In return, that gave me a couple broken things they had in the back to bribe me to leave the premises."[/gold]

Letting out a sigh to herself, Vashti wondered how the situation had gone so wrong. Or at least, how she had run into a random Automata who'd threaten to explode her and then got into this mess with a princess whom she thought was just some noble's kid running about. That and the knives. Yes, many knives looming in front of her like the dangerous pointy objects that they were. To be fair, she was not used to every way in which Felbar worked in matters like this, nor had she expected to see a princess. 

[color=gold]"Still, running into an actual princess like this is new for me,"[/color] Vashti said, after turning around back towards the butler and the small teenage princess who had demanded Vashti not be allowed to run, her trademark grin returning just as fast as it had formerly disappeared, even as she pondered the unique nature of the situation, [color=gold]"And hey, your butler has some cool-looking time-freezing magic! Ooh! I wonder if that could be applied somehow to an Altered Machine....mmm, maybe something that fires homing projectiles, which are frozen in time for a moment before tracking a target? Oh! That could work well for a sniper's enchanted bullet, actually! So cool..."

For a moment after addressing the princess, the half-Alv seemed to fall back into her more eccentric side, the tinkerer from Grandia who loved to ponder on these thing and tinker with machines. It also seemed to appeal to her other side, though, that of the woman from some nation called "Russia" who had worked on robotics and similar things throughout her life. To even accentuate her curiosity, she reached out and touched one of the knives floating in the air, prodding it and looking at it like a curious specimen had come before her eyes. 

[color=gold]"To be honest, though, that perverted shopkeeper owed me for what he tried to do,"[/color] the half-Alv continued after a few moments of silence, looking back up at the princess and butler as she stood back up from inspecting the knife, [color=gold]"Eh, but at least you two didn't shoot first and ask questions later. Felbar must be nicer here, since Granadian police tend to shoot if you run too much."[/color]

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