First Meeting [Fraha]

[Astraea]

Astraea giggled and clapped her hands together too, grinning enthusiastically. Luckily she had found someone so nice, and she hadn't even been here long. A good omen? Hopefully, but she did not let herself believe that right now in case she 'jinxed' it.

"I literally have no idea either, so I'm no good!" She replied and shrugged her shoulders, glancing around again at where to go when Fraha talked about going down a certain street.

"Yeah sure." She replied and began walking next to Fraha, keeping the peace and looking around with a wide-eyed expression at the colourful and fragrant stalls. There weren't normally things like this in Wind Reach, at least she did not think so, but then again she was used to everything back home so nothing really seemed new and fresh to her.

As they walked past one particular stall selling fruit a middle-aged man called out to her and held out an apple, grinning, and urging her to try a sample. Astraea walked to him and took the apple with a smile on her face. "Thank you." She replied sweetly which made the man blush, and as she hurried back to Fraha taking a bite out of the apple as she did, and her mouth filled with the sweet juice and texture of the apple, making her smile inwardly.
"I haven't tasted fresh fruit in a while either." She told Fraha.

When Fraha asked her the question she considered it for a moment before replying "Something about me? Oh I'm not too interesting....I guess to start off with, I'm Inarta from Wind Reach. What would you like to know about me? Where are you from?"

[Fraha]

As they were walking Fraha was looking forward, her elbows would cover her side sight since the were a bit forward. Inatra huh? She didn't heard of them and surely she never visited Wind Reach. But that was not the priority to her. So she kept silent for a second thinking of what to ask. Then she realized that she didn't know how old she was. Looking at Fraha one could think from 16 to 18 maximum, judging by her behavior, walk and manners. But this woman, it wasn't easy to guess but she surely looked older. So Fraha decided to ask her her age. In that exact moment she didn't notice that Astraea stopped to get the apple and simply talked, sure that her new friend was there. "hmm...well you have great manners in talking and moving, plus your clothes are stylish so my main question is about your age." He smiled still looking forward, but didn't recieve and answer. *she's picking the right words?* suddenly Astraea answered "something about me? Oh I'm not too interesting..." Fraha didn't understand and looked at her noticing the apple. She turned around and saw the Fruitman looking at her butt. Her eyes widened as she glared the man which turned around back to work. "Haaam, that fruitsman was looking at you indiscreetly" she whispered confused at Astraea. "Did you steal the apple?" A bit of adrenalyne popped in her, but it only exited her more. Fraha wasn't a moral person, she was to do what fits right to her manily.

[Astraea]

"What?!" Astraea spluttered as Fraha told her that the fruit-seller had been looking at her wrongly, and she snapped her head round at him. He was too slow to turn away and she caught the look he was giving her, making Astraea blush with anger and embarrassment.

Why can't anyone just be genuinely nice these days? She thought heatedly. She had only known a few of those genuinely nice people at home, and since she left she had not found many people who were the same - they always had alternative motives, whether it be money, humiliation or sex. She tried to stay away from those people most of the time but when an apple had been offered to her she did not think it would be for that kind of reason! It was just an apple. Her eyebrows creased together and her mouth opened in disgust as she took one last bite of the apple as a taunt and threw it back at the man. The apple soared through the air in an upwards arc, and hit the man hard on his nose, right between the eyes!

The fruit-seller stumbled back with a stupefied look on his unshaven face and he blinked several times before clutching at his nose and shouting out in pain. Had it taken him that long to even register his body was in pain?
Astraea could only think wow to that.
But then he quickly recovered and now glared at the two of them, looking like he was going to run straight at them in a fury.

To Astraea's surprise, he did! He stumbled out from behind his stall and shouted obscene words at her, ones she did not even recognise, making Astraea shriek a little in fright and excitement as she spun back round and tired to grab Fraha's hand. "Let's go!" She almost shouted as she took off in a run down the street, the fruit-seller doing his best to run behind them and shaking his fists like a madman.

[Fraha]

*maybe, just maybe I shouldn't have tell her...* Thought Fraha as she saw the inatra's anger printed on the face. She looked, eyes spread, like the apple hit the nose of the fruitsman. "Ahm...Astraea maybe that was a bit overreacted?" said she with a tiny voice, almost whispering. But as he shouted in a retarded way Fraha exploded in a laugh. She bent forward, eyes closed and hands on her lap. "Oh my god, i'm sorry, excuse me sir" she said just before a stronger laugh came out from her. But it all ended and positive emotions were replaced with adrenalyne as the fruitsman called Astraea whore and other stuff. He was publicly offending a person, that was not good. She raised full height and made a pair of steps forward to the fruitsmen, standing before Astraea. "Hey, don't you dare to talk like that to a woman!" said she looking at him furiously. "First you act like a pig and the.." she stopped as she saw him getting out of his workplace and charging them. Panic occured, she automatically leaned her balance backwards keeping her hands slightly spread and made a few steps backwards. She probably would crouch and guard herself but she felt someone grabbing her hand, it was Astraea! "Let's go!" Sounded like a fresh air that cleared her mind. "Sounds good" answered she as she regained her inner balance. "to the tavern?" asked she at soon as they made their first step.

[Astraea]

Astraea was only a step in front of Fraha as she began to run, and she could hear Fraha ask her if she wanted to go to the Tavern.

"That sounds great!" She replied as she glanced back and urged herself to keep running. She had an excited grin on her face, revealing her playful nature.
Astraea was quite childlike in some ways - she liked to act spontaneously, and put herself in exciting situations. Sometimes it turned out to be dangerous, and she hardly ever intended it to be that way, but that was the gamble she took, and she loved it.
She wanted to live in the most fun way possible. She could be serious when the situation calls for it, but would rather not be; she had met too many people who lived life without a taste for fun and it bored her, made her feel sorry for them.

She had heard Fraha's reaction at how she might have been overreacting but hadn't had time to respond to that, and she didn't think she would have at the time, but made a mental note to bring it up to her later. Maybe in the tavern. She wanted to explain how she lived, fun and fierce, without planning too far ahead in the future. Even Astraea admits that she can overreact, but sometimes it is better to do that than take no notice at all.

So here she was, running down a street dodging people as best as she could, the wind blowing the hair out of her eyes so it streamed behind her in red waves, exhilaration and laughter coursing through her. Her hand was still clasped round Fraha's and she dare not let go in case they got separated and unable to find each other again.

They came to the end of the street to be met by three more - one to the left, to the right and straight ahead.
"Where to now?" Astraea asked as she came to a stop and found she was gasping a little as she looked to Fraha.

[Fraha]

*Now this is a good warm up* thought Fraha As, step by step, hand to hand, they were running in the crowd followed by the fruits vendor. *I know this girl less than five minutes and look what happened, we will get along!* Fraha shortly peeked at her behind her shoulder and saw her smiling. It made her smile as well and run a bit faster. The street was straight and the fruits man not young enough to match with them so she felt easy about it but after a while they found themselves in a cross road she rounded her mouth as she released her breath controlling it. *where to? I don't know* Fraha was about to choose random direction when her eyes caught the wall coming from afar. It was the gate she came from! It was on the right side of them so the tavern was on the left. "Over here" Fraha said as she started to run left, still holding Astraea. She pointed her finger in the left street direction but accidentally at a man who surprised, dropped a bag of goods "Please no, I didn't mean to steal it he shouted as he raised his hands in sign of defence. It was a grown man around 30 years old, he wore long brawn pants and a black robe. He had leather sandals and an afro haircut separater from the face with a red headband. From his words those good were stolen. Fraha was already running when in surprise the man shouted and some people turned around, someone screaming "hey that's my braclet!" and someone "call the knights!" "Ops, sorry sir I didn't mean to" She said as she ran by him making her way in the crowd a bit faster since the fruits man was still after them.

[Astraea]

Astraea and Fraha had only paused for a few seconds, enough for Astraea to regain steady breathing. She was physically fit and had impressive stamina but was weak from not eating and drinking much lately.
She was just beginning to lose weight, which was not her plan at all and she looked forward to putting it all back on in the Tavern! She had curves, especially round her waist and breasts and had powerful arms and legs. Her shoulders were quite muscular for a woman due to her years of making and using bows, and she was happy with that figure.
There was no doubt she had an appetite, but knew when to stop and stay healthy - thankfully.

Now Fraha was pointing left, and suddenly a man threw up his arms and shouted a confession to theft!
What a day this is turning out to be, she thought amusedly to herself. But we better get moving if they are calling the Knights.
She did not want them to get cornered and interrogated about what she did to that fruit-seller.
The next second Fraha had taken off at a run again and Astraea followed right by her side, glancing at the thief as they passed with an intrigued yet disappointed look on her face which the man noticed, causing Astraea to look away and pay attention to where they were now going.

"So how far to the Tavern?" She asked Fraha. These streets looked awfully similar, and hoped that they would not get lost - that would be a disaster.
At least there is food around here, she contemplated, and it did not seem so awful any more. Think of it as an adventure...

[Fraha]

[OOC/Please put this in your first post :

Timestamp: Season of Spring, Day 1, 510 AV Location: The main gates Daytime: 11:00 AM

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Fraha was thinking, she looked up to the sky, which meant they were still in the main gate area. She knew behind her standed the gate and at her left now was the Dyred district which they came out from. Her tavern, that was also an Inn was called the Golden Dragon. Which standed right somewhere futher, but where? She didn't turn back to speak to Astraea and just asnwered [color=#40BF00]"it's near, we have to get rid of that guy first." She wasn't sure about where to go so she looked around in search of some lock point to find a reference. It was then that she remembered her previous and first night in Syliras. Before entering the tower she would watch around to the sky. She remembered that she saw a curious window on the the wall that separated the main gates area from the Dyres district. That window or hole or whatever it was standed right in axis with the street of the tavern. She smiled and mentally high fived her self for it. She immediatly looked up searching for that window again, luckily it was in sight, a bit on the right but in sight, which meant that the tavern was close. "I got it, we go straight then right then left then straight and we're ther..." Fraha turned her head to say that when she saw not only the fruitsmen chasing them, but also the theif, angry as hell teaming up with the first one and chasing them "oh crap, Thei're in pair now!!" This wasn't good, but still very fun to her. She kept running until the right turn where she saw a heavy crowded street. There were a lot of people of all ages but luckily no knight, the street, on the right was covered by the wall of a building long 30 meters and having 2 floors height, on the left had two market tables with a little wooden roof covered woth a tend to keep away from the sun. The two market tables were in front of another wall this one, instead of the first, wasn't long but was shorter and had a little alley, placed between two rock maiden buildings.[/color]

[Astraea]

Astraea had heard the thief too and she also turned round, letting a small groan escape her lips. Two fully grown men after them? Her mind started to conjure up the worst possibility of what would happen if they caught them, especially if they had managed to find a quiet place first. Mentally shaking herself out of it she thought That won't happen again, calm down.

Taking in a deep breath she looked in the direction that Fraha had pointed and was not going to wait here a second longer so took off at a run with their hands still clasped together. It was more difficult this time as the streets seemed more crowded, and she almost had to wade through. Feeling their speed slowing she kept glancing back at the two men still after them. She still found it exciting, but after the memories of her past had squirmed into her mind when they were standing still, she was also getting slightly nervous. Astraea could fight well, and if worst came to worst she would drive one of her arrows right into their hearts if that was what it took. Every time she saw their furious faces she quickly looked forward again, not wanting to look at them for too long.

She wondered what would happen to the fruit-seller's stall while he was away from it, and almost laughed out loud at the thought of it being robbed of every piece of fruit by people taking their chances. It would not surprise her. Maybe the other people owning neighbouring stalls would look after it?

Snapping out of her thoughts again she looked around the streets as they ran, or tried to run at least. Everyone seemed busy like they had something to do, some place to go. Mother's shouted at their children and tried to herd them along, slapping their wrists if they misbehaved too badly. Little girls skipped happily in between parents, clasping both their hands. People behind stalls were shouting and singing trying to lure people in to buy some thing.

Astraea made a mental note to visit another market soon, maybe tomorrow, but most likely not this one for a while - to let the dust settle, she did not want to run into the men chasing her again.
She easily kept up with Fraha and their grip on each other had not broken yet but her hands were starting to sweat from the heat of the crowded bodies and of the run. She hoped they would lose these two men soon and find the Tavern.

[Fraha]

The situation was degenerating, too much people even as they turned left. [color=#40FF00]"olmost there!" Fraha shouted. She was already thinking of how they would run safe in the tavern protected by the big redhaired barkeeper. But first they would have to reach it. As she saw the bunch of people a bit of panic came on her. *Fraha run like dogs like dogs* she thought as she remembered her father telling her about it. *when a dog is escaping it never stops, but jumps left and right untill it finds the direction to go forward, use this when you have to* It looked like the perfect chance so Fraha lowed her eyebrows as she did when she had to concentrate and left Astraea's hand "Behind me!" shouted she as she turned sideways and her legs started to move in different order. She would use every single inch of space between peopleto jump inside it. She dashed left then right again to surpass a family of three the right again to evade a woman with a box of fruits then again she stopped on her toes to let a little child run accross her. It was not a running, it looked more like a dance of making it through. Fraha then crouched to surround a guy with a pack of branches "Astraea!" she wanted to check if she was there since a lookback would result in a fall probably. She was now a few meters from the taverns door, a small on her face appeared and she dashed, raiing her speed, sure that they already made it when a man instead of walking forward, leaving her the space to pass dropped a miza. So he crouched to take it back right in front of Fraha, which couldn't stop in time nor jump it away. She then did the only thing she could come up with. She tried to evade him pulling with all her strenght on the foot that was down, but this action resulted just in a drammatic loss of balance. fraha was literally falling on the man. "Waaah!" she screamed shortly, a fall now would represent a catch from the two men or a separation from Astraea, which would be reasonable since at least not both get caught. With the last inch of hope Fraha turned her waist around as much as she could and extended a hand hoping that someone would hold her.[/color]