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@missvvave[ Deathless ]

     She’s been traveling on her own for years and she’s learned - through trial and error - how to watch herself and play her odds. But every now and then, she still ends up a target. Perhaps it was the excitement of finally finding a vendor with a single seed of a poisonous plant that was incredibly difficult to grow for sale. She could see it was the real deal even inside the tiny glass vial it was safely stored in. And she wanted it. Badly enough that she handed in the money before, and not while making the exchange.

Alice saw it in the vendor’s eyes, the decision to take an opportunity and run with it regardless of the truth. Suddenly there’s a rough hand wrapped strongly around her wrist, and she feels panic already starting to well up inside her when his lips begin to shape the word that would doom her forever within the market, maybe even in the entire island. “Thi-”

But another, louder voice covered it up, protective hands taking hold of her shoulders and pulling her back. “Pervert!! Take your hands off her, you disgusting pervert!” Commotion rises all around them and Alice finds herself swiftly swept away by the other woman, only stopping when they can’t hear the shouting anymore.

When she turns around to face her, she pulls down the hood obscuring her face, letting down her beautiful sunset colored hair. She’s so beautiful that Alice can’t quite think of why she seems so familiar before she’s handing her the seed and offering a piece of hard-won wisdom. “If you must be clever, then be clever.”

Still a little dazed, she closes her hands around the vial protectively. “T-Thank you so much!” She blurts out as her savior is leaving. “How can I repay you?” The gorgeous woman turns around, looking very much cheerful in stark comparison to how serious she’d been a moment ago.