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[center] Alleyway of Eldra, Shalador [/center]

Dareen had almost lost the kid. He must have caught onto them. He had dropped his hat on the and ground and was scaling a wall. She just caught a glimpse of his nearly white hair vanishing over the side. She could pursue him...but she didn't want to get farther from the others than she already was. Plus, he probably knew these alleys like the back of his hand. She knew she did, back in her youth. Dareen picked up the hat, dusted it off, and then tossed it over the wall behind the kid so he could pick it up, guiding it over with the craft and then letting it fall. Have your damn hat.

[color=c4df9b]"Fuck it,"[/color] she swore, smacking the frills of her dress. The powerful jeweled felt like it was droning on in her ear. Dareen was flustered and frustrated and like a true noblewoman she indignantly stomped back to the outside of the bookstore. Shoving past people she stood outside and crossed her arms, wiping the sweat off her brow. She wasn't going to go on a fucking goose chase all across town while this prick with the jewel, whoever they were, kept scaring her. All while she was in the fucking dress- she looked like an idiot. Ooh, it's me, the nobleman's wife, la de [i]fucking[/i] da. Unbeknownst to her, Mikhail was already in side and the encounter had already ended. Dareen hadn't felt so out of control of her life in a really long time and it had ground on her nerves. Stuffy dress, stuffy alleyway, and she couldn't even escape into her own thoughts because of this jewel that made her feel insignificant and worried.

Dareen inhaled and stood up straight, recovering her persona. Ranina. Ra-[i]neee[/i]-na. She crossed her hands across her and put on a neutral, apathetic face. Like nothing had happened. Even though her dress had already been dirtied up by this alleyway and the running she had been doing. To outsiders she probably appeared like a spoiled aristocrat on the verge of losing her patience.