Post by resonate on Jan 31, 2012 14:01:06 GMT -5
Vegetables?
They couldn't leave her alone could they?
Three hours of sleep. Just three hours. Rubbing her eyes she pushed herself from the desk, feeling the cool smooth surface for only moment before plucking Gikyo and her arrows from the stand next to her. She slung them on her shoulder, the weight digging into her collar bone much more than it usually did. Perhaps it was the fatigue?
There was no time to change into her outdoor gear as far as she could tell. What she had on now would have to suffice, her sapphire blue dress and legging boots could be washed and were comfortable enough. Plus she was rather snazzy looking, a welcome bonus.
Slipping the shop keys from the shelf next to the door she stepped out into the open air, revelling in it's warmth for a moment before closing the florist door, locking it with the loud click of a mechanism not used in quite a while. The metal bar almost seemed joyful to be serving it's purpose after the amount of time Maria had spent in her shop, rather than in her nice comfortable bed. Her mouth salivated just thinking about sleep right now.
Pushing away from the door, several steps down the western-most road and she encountered a mental block, one that she was determined to shovel out of the way. What had he asked her to do again? Geez, she didn't forget things very often like this but it would be nice if her brain cooperated, however dead it currently was. A loud sigh and a vague idea popped into her head about what Oly-jii had asked her to do. Those damned kids that called themselves the 'Usopp Pirate Crew' seemed to have disappeared. Good riddance as she assured herself, but nonetheless, a little extra money for very little effort was always good, right? Finding a couple of kids. Heh, how...
Wait...
If it was just 'finding' these kids then there would be no need to send her out fully armed and battle-ready. Unless these kids were up to something and her suspicions were correct of course, but even then to injure those kids would cause quite the mess, in more ways than one. So then, why would Oly-jii send her of all people? The tang of excitement flitted on the end of her tongue for a second, before she got a hold of herself and pounded hard once on the wooden door of Oly-jii's house.
No response huh...?