"Look, I offered you a fair price for this. If you won't take it, it's not because of my greed but your stingy actions! It took me over a week to even find something this good anyways." The man in front of Aera's "shop", which consisted of a dingy rug with trinkets spread out on it within the marketplace, grumbled as he fingered the silver ring. She was asking a decent price, but he wanted nearly half of what she thought it was worth. With a few more minutes of grumbling, the man fished out two cans of chili from his bag and an apple and tossed it before the red-haired woman. "I'll offer you this and that's as high as I'll go." 

Aera gave a smirk in response. "I don't want the apple, I want the tomatoes. You give me three of those tomatoes and I'll throw in a ring box for free. Hard to find those intact anywhere." The man threw down a burlap sack, and one of the roma tomatoes within rolled out. Aera tossed the ring box up at the man, who swiftly caught it before walking away. Well, dinner was always nice to have after a long day spent diving in trash piles. She managed to find a small dagger along with a beat up katana she was restoring while digging in the far outskirts, but not without running into a few of the Invokers. She had no problem killing them like she would any shadow, though it was difficult to hide their bodies. She even managed to loot her 9mm pistol and some ammo off of them, and it was a good day for her.

As the hours passed and afternoon approached, she rolled up the little amount of trinkets she had left in her shop mat and tucked it away within her rucksack before heading into the housing district of the rag-tag town she "lived" in. She lived in the bottom floor of an abandoned apartment complex with the other women, and it was set up much like a dorm--each floor was reserved to a specific gender, and every night the younger residents who were armed took up guard duty for the night. As she turned the corner out of the marketplace, a strange dog-thing floated past her. 'A persona?' she wondered to herself before absentmindedly readjusting the bandage on her upper arm. It was odd to see a persona wandering without its master, and she could feel her own become restless as she watched the dog twirl in the sky. Aera couldn't help her curiosity, and she decided to wait and see who exactly this little guy belonged to.