Nefi went off to travel up north and in places I shall not be returning to so I got bored. I explored the borderlands, and worked in sweatshops. I crafted myslf some armor, and ended up going broke because these DIY stores really don't pay anything. Well there was that and the fact that my gathering tools had been used to the point of unusability and I needed new ones.
I placed my last 2 silver on the table.
"I need a pickaxe and an axe"
"And and axe?" the shopkeep asked have in a daze.
"Yes and an axe" I was annoyed because I already said that.
The keep had a twinkle in their eye "Heres your sickle and three axes," he took my silver off the table and roughly shoved the four tools in my bag, "no takebacks"
So here I was near penniless and bored in Lions Arch. I found some Gems in the gutter, Nefi liked gems I mailed them to her.
"I found these and thought you would appriciate them.
Be forever free like the wind
- Luptree"
I recieved a reply moments later from Nefi thanking me for the gems, it had a few rings in it and I was broke and hungry. So I pawned one and wore the rest. The pawned ring must have been valuable because it was enough to start a party in the middle of town. There was laughter and merriment, and I even managed to get a yellow dye off a bartender who mistook it for alcohol. I sent it in a letter to Nefi as I remembered her saying she was looking for dyes. I woke up a few hours later in the first tier of the Lion's Arch fountain. My shoes were wet, the water was clear crisp and tasty. I got to my feet and stood there drinking it in.
"Ahhh... Refreshing" I must have muttered out loud.
"Don't tell me you drink though your feet" came a response. I recognised the voice immediatly, it was Nefi.
"Only when I need to, often times it's involuntary, makes it really akward whenever I step in something." I said, "How was the grove?"
"It was..." I kinda tuned out the rest of this sentence, but picked up on the last part where Nefi asked me why I wouldn't go there.
"I came from the mind of the Pale tree, the Grove is where the mental link is the strongest and I really would like to keep my mind as my own for the time being, it's bad enough sharing a telepathic link with the other plants."
"other plants?"
"Yeah, near all plants share a telepathic link thanks to the Pale Tree, do you know what I hear every time we run though a field?"
"What do you hear?" she asked her eyes starting to glaze with what was either annoyance or curiosity, still for the life of me can't figure out which.
"Ow, Ow, Ow OW... From the grass. Do you know how many blades of grass our feet touch when we are walking on it?" She didnt answer but the look on her face told me she understood it to be a lot.
"Ok, well how about Hoelbra? Surely you have no family there"
"No but I went there briefly and almost froze to death"
"I'm sure it's not that bad"
"If you started rotting like celery in an icebox everytime you went to a place you wouldn't want to go either."
At this point I started to notice something else from the people around us, laughter. I think they noticed how broke and ragged I was as a few started throwing coppers at me and saying "keep it up," I suddenly felt akward unsure what needed to be kept up, Nefi broke the silence.
"So what have you been up to while I was traveling?"
"Nothing much, also that dye i sent you, don't try drinking it." Nefi suddenly looked at me like I killed a puppy.
"You didn't try drinking it did you?"
"only to prove it wasn't alcoholic."
"That doesn't make it good for you, who knows what is in that stuff, it could have lead or something in it."
"It's distilled plant fibers, how can that be alcoholic?" I paused reaching into my pack, "By the way need an ah..." I stopped mid word, "Why do I have 2 axes superglued to the inside of my pack?"
They were really stuck there, the only thing I could guess was the shopkeep must have put it on them so I couldn't give them back.
Nefi looked odd for a moment, like she wasn't sure how to answer, after letting out a sigh like I've never seen here sigh before she asked, "So where are you planning on going?"
"I'm heading to the Black Citadel, I hear it's filled to the brim with kitties and I want to scruff them and nuzzle them and give them cool cups of milk" laughter was getting so loud around us that I was beginning to have trouble hearing the conversation, or seeing what everyone thought was so funny.
Nefi started going into a tyrade about me getting myself killed and something about following me for my own protection, but long story short I'm going to see kitties, and I must state in the utmost dignity, SQUEE!
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