her light blonde hair bounced behind her, even as the girl adjusted the basket in her right arm. she's humming a song that nobody seems to recognize - and why would they, it's a song from her birth family. a song that nobody knows apart from them, and if they knew she was humming it out in public, the assassination attempts might get fiercer. then again, they are pretty fierce as it is... oups. - and she doesn't seem to mind it at all. the weird looks when she stops at a kiosk and browses the wares, her smaller frame making her look surprisingly child like.
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but evidently, most of the merchants here were used to seeing this weird girl. she was the owner of the pawn shop just down the road, and it stood to make sense that a weird person owned such a weird shop. but they never seemed to begrudge her it. and for that, she is thankful. but she knows that strangers don't seem to understand that she's just naturally this way, and tend to harangue her. or tell her she's too young to do things, when she's an adult thank you very much!
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so when she feels the shivers up her neck, the girl turns herself into an alleyway, away from everyone else. she already knew there was going to be an attempt on her life, and that's when she saw a figure already standing in the alleyway. "um... excuse me, I need to pass." she says gently, softly. and that's when the sound of drawn steel fills the area, and suddenly a cloaked form dives for the blonde. Lyme is already moving back, knowing better then to stand still.
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now, is that other person someone that was going to help, or a partner to the one trying to kill her? she has to decide and figure out how to get out of this fast. because this was one of the days that Rune wasn't here, and it showed. she had grown a smidge careless again. and that means she's gonna get scolded.
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again.
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sometimes, she wonders if it's worth surviving these...