Kire returned the sword to its scabbard, but she still held it tight. She could have sworn she had sensed Gemini magic, but there was no longer any trace she could follow, as if she had imagined it all. That didn't reassure her. Months ago she had been like that, overly sensitive to the presence of Gemini blood-magic, to the point of sensing in everywhere. Kire rubbed her face. She didn't like that she wasn't sure. 

Ruli seemed to have spotted something else, though. Running around the city like a madwoman chasing after phantoms wasn't going to be productive. She would have to look into it later. Huffing, Kire walked after him, still visibly on edge even as they entered a rather dank establishment. Pawnshop, it looked like. 

Confused, she didn't immediately catch onto why Ruli was buying her jewelry, then remembered him mentioning that he needed this for the enchantment. She put on a smile as a front, and went over to pick. "Isn't he just thoughtful?" she said to the man rolling her eyes. She found a band, silver with no stone, and she made a show of admiring it. The man raised an eyebrow at her. "Does he look like he'll spend anymore for me? He's too miserly; look at his boots," she 'complained' with a sigh. Then, something occured to her.

"Do you sell gems like rubies, quartzes, carnelians?" She smiled. "Not that we can purchase now. But for the future. Take them to a nice jeweler and all that when we could. finally afford it."
The man, who looked like he found the two customers a tad too strange, shrugged. "Not of late, but there should be soon; the Lord's mines usually are a good source. The work had halted for a time, some mishap or other, but they've gone back to work recently."
"Ah. I'll keep that it mind." It wasn't particularly conclusive; she knew many lords and ladies who had mines that supplied a large part of their wealth. She still couldn't shake the feeling she had earlier. 

She was silent even after they had left. "I thought I felt-- something familiar," she said after a long pause. "Similar to the traces of Ikegai's magic. But I didn't get a good enough sense of it to know whether or not it was just me being paranoid." She sighed, frowning.