[Tirñea]
Veronica's enthusiasm to join her had taken Tirñea by surprise, though she quickly warmed up to the idea while the knight spoke with her mentor. Once they had waved each other goodbye, Veronica went off listing places worth visiting. Her voice was a little rushed in her excitement, and Tirñea failed to understand any of the names of these places. A few were explained well enough that what they were called didn't mater, so she at least had an idea for where she may want to start.
"I am wanting, two things," Tirñea began to explain as Veronica started leading her off somewhere. "The first, I need- a um... tent! Yes, a tent. Second, maybe a warm clothing. For my arms," she listed, looking at her exposed limbs and shuddering a little. The air was still cold, not near frozen like at dawn, but still not warmed by the sun's rays. Here in the city it was better, but to Tirñea there was still a noticeable chill in the air.
Veronica navigated the streets quickly and confidently, Tirñea trailing just behind her and casually bringing her staff down on the ground harder than she needed to. There was plenty of movement in the streets, more than enough to confuse Sierpe, but thankfully her staff had been designed with it's purpose in mind of communicating with a creature that couldn't see. When striking the ground, especially on stone, the sound of the steel resonates clearer than most things. This plus their shared link always gave a vague sense of how close they were to one another.
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The shopping trip had been fairly nice, and with Veronica there to help her Tirñea managed to find what she needed and at what she could assume were fair prices. She'd had about 45 gold pieces, but now with a tent, bed roll, new bag to help carry them, and a cozy brown sweater, she was left with three gold and two silver. The need for a new backpack had been unexpected, but her little drawstring bag simply wouldn't be comfortable to wear holding her new gear so she'd had to trade it in. It wasn't that she was unhappy with her purchases, quite the opposite in fact, but she hadn't expected to spend so much on the first leg of her journey. The currency here was different, and she'd assumed she had more than what she actually had.
"I can't thinking of anything else I need," Tirñea announced as they left the clothing store, adjusting her bracers over her new sweater. It was a similar colour to the leather vest and bracers she wore, and was fairly warm which made her happy. In fact besides the haggling, most of the short shopping trip had been quite fun as Veronica's enthusiasm for the city made her good company. "What should we doing now?" Tirñea asked the knight eagerly, feeling more prepared than earlier which had her looking to do something.
[Calieo]
Now being on the move, Calieo's mood was already improving as they drew closer to the boundaries of the settlement. The fur clad woman started talking to her about a river, the river, which did hold the knight's interest. Two days was a lot of time, and she wasn't even sure if it was possible to go that way which made her opinion less valid in the knight's eyes. Calieo thought about what had been said for a moment, long enough for Chambala to drop back and begin talking with Rebecca. As the structures of the settlement became fewer and started giving way to fenced land where animals roamed, Calieo was brought out of her thoughts by Rebecca's disrespectful address. Calieo shot a look over her shoulder that could melt steel at the use of such a ridiculous way to gain her attention. She was prepared to yell, but thought better of it and bit her tongue to keep from shouting.
"My name is Calieo," she hissed, letting the hostility evaporate from her voice before she continued speaking. "And what 'brings me out here' is a missing thing, shaped like this," she paused to frantically outline the object she'd already tried describing countless times before, "and I don't know anything else about it because it's missing! But it's very important, and the beast that guards the pillars said it was stolen and the thief SMELT OF ASHES AND DIRT!" She was screaming now, her irritation from earlier having built on itself as she spoke into aimless anger. She finished her rant with a roar of frustration, kicking at the ground and swinging her shielded arm to stab at the air. She needed a moment to calm down after that, having stopped walking and was just left staring at the sky. The weather was better today, patchy clouds but most of the sky was blue if only a little grey. Her temper cooled just as quickly as it had flared, and when she spoke again her voice was calm and even.
"Then so I thought, ashes and dirt? Well ashes are what civilizations turn to, and dirt is where the green emerges, so I left the mountains in search of dirt." When she'd finished talking her attention was once again on the road, and she offered Rebecca a sneer before beginning to walk again, "Now here I am, surrounded by dirt! But I much prefer dirt to water, speaking of which, fur woman, after thinking about what you said I do not want to cross the river. I've seen where that water comes from and I do not want it to see me."
