Alex looked over South Clock Town from the roof of the Stock Pot Inn. This was an entertainment district containing the town's most famous Inn, the Milk Bar and several different gambling games like the treasure chest. During the year it was usually lively with drunks and street performers and a group of teens that Alex suspiciously had seen around Dusk Row more than once. It was peculiar but not something that she'd devoted a while lot of thought to. Now that the Carnival of Time was fast approaching every inch of South Clock Town had become jammed with performers, musicians, jugglers and fire eaters, all hoping to get the chance to perform at the festival. With so many players and so many different tunes it turned into a throng of what noise but Alex could pick out a few melodies here and there. The loud Goron drums and the heavy Deku Pipes and through it all she could pick up the shrill calming sound of a flute or ocarina of some sort. Alex remembered a sound so much like it from so many years past. When Alex had fled Pirate's Landing with her sister they had no problems calling themselves thieves but in truth they had very little real idea was what they were doing. The twins took to playing on the street for change. Ali had a lovely reed flute that Alex had swiped from a traveling circus. They had a duo act. Ali played music that in another world would have been called Irish while Alex sang. People had often told her that she had a lovely voice but Alex hadn't used it since... the act fell apart. "Isn't it beautiful Iris?" Alex said looking over the see of people. The glowing ball of light that Iris was generating turned to survey the musicians and performers. "It would look better if I wasn't seeing it through half inch glass." She said pointedly. "I'm not letting you out." Alex said watching one of the fire eaters breath flame to the amusement of the crowd. There was several seconds of silence. "Yes," Iris said quietly. "It is beautiful if a bit chaotic. It would be impossible to get this many of my kind together short of the Great Fairy's return." Alex felt like there was more to that story but Iris seemed to be having a moment of deep revelry for something long past and Alex knew well enough not to interrupt that. Alex took another bite of her bread role when she heard a sound from the side of the roof that she had climbed up. A head popped up over the side and latched onto Alex. The thief's hand immediately went to the curved dagger at her side. The scimitar was good for intimidation but she was much better at knife fighting. "Oh, ah..." The sounds came out of the... (Alex thought it was a) girl's mouth. She must have been looking for a quiet spot and didn't expect anyone to be up here. "Sorry." She said meekly before starting to lower herself again. "By the Giants, that's grotesque." said a voice from the bottle beside Alex. "Iris! Play nice." Alex couldn't exactly argue with the fairy, though she wouldn't have been so blunt. The (Alex had decided that it was a) girl appeared as a humanoid fish with green and white scales and a fin on her head but not in a million years would Alex have called her a Zora. She looked off; her scales were green like a trout as opposed to the blue salmon scales of the Zora people. Growing up in Pirate's Landing had given Alex a fairly good knowledge of fish. Could she be one of the aggressive River Zoras. No, Alex had seen River Zoras near the ocean every once in awhile and the girl didn't quite look like one of them either. Besides, everyone knew that River Zoras didn't fare well outside of the water like there saltwater cousins. Their skin required a moist environment or else it would dry out. This girl didn't look like a river Zora, she lacked the red spike like fins and green claws but at the same time she looked unlike a Sea Zora, her coloring was wrong and her head didn't carry the traditional shape of the Sea Zoras. "Wait," Alex's curiosity had gotten the better of her. She wanted to know who and what this creature was. "Sorry 'bout my fairy, she's got no self-restrain. You wan' an apple?"