A young woman ran through the market staring at a golden pocket-watch as she ran weaving through the crowd of people as she rushed to her destination. A small satchel was attached to her waist and her brown ponytail fluttered in the wind as she tried to speed up. Her legs were burning and she almost crashed into a few people but she continued moving forward her attention staying on the watch as she watched the seconds tick by.
Unfortunately she didn't see one particular gentleman and ended up slamming into him stumbling as she did so, she placed her foot down and with what dexterity she had kept her balance and avoided falling. 
She turned to the gentleman she had crashed into only to see a young woman with him, the girl seemed covered in tattoo's and she notice the gentleman had a scarf on and had a long blond ponytail. 
She had crashed into Ray in her rush and promptly bowed realizing her mistake.
"I'm very sorry sir please excuse me!" the woman said before lifting herself up. "I'm sorry for interrupting your outing together."
She bowed once more before turning and running off again, she turned once more and waved to the two still in a rush but not wanting to seem rude.
"You look very cute together! Sorry again!"
With that she faded into the distance looking back at her pocket-watch.

Luro stopped patting himself realizing he didn't have any kind of food on him, he was tempted to ask Nolan if he carried any food but he figured that would be silly, just because Nolan was a cook didn't mean he always had food on him...did it?
Luro shook his head realizing he could pursue that thought later, he started to speak again but stopped as a young woman came running his way carrying a pocket-watch on her person, he arched his brow as she slowed to a stop a few feet from them and closing her pocket-watch put it back into her shirt pocket.
Her gaze met Luro's as he stood up, her eyes widening as she stared at him her mouth slightly agape as she watched scratch the side of his head.
"Lily?" Luro questioned.
"Luro...is that really you?"
"It is you Lily! How are you?"
Luro walked over and the two shared a brief hug before he backed away, her gaze went over to Nolan and she offered a nod to him before looking back at Luro.
"I've been fine but what about you...well I've seen your wanted poster so I have an idea but I mean aside from that what have you been up to?"
"Oh you know, got into trouble, got stranded, got found by the StarDusk pirates became a StarDusk pirate just regular things. Oh this is Nolan by the way he's a StarDusk pirate too. They call him the Crimson Monarch oh and the Puppy Killing maniac I'll tell you why later."
Luro grinned and watched as the young girl hid behind Lily gripping her skirt as she peered around her and stared at the two.
"Mary there's no need to be shy, he's a good person I'm sure Nolan...is too....I think."
"....really..." Mary said looking back over at Luro. "He's a pirate...pirates are bad people and he kills puppies."
She wasn't positive Nolan wasn't a good person and didn't fully believe Luro was so she stayed behind Lily who just smiled and handed her a piece of fruit from her satchel.
"Remember how I told you that I lived in the streets with a bunch of other children when I was a kid, Luro was our leader back then, he was the oldest one among us so he helped us survive. He was the first one of us to discard his name and begin anew, though he threw away his entire name while most of us just got rid of our first. Still not sure where this Makachi part came from honestly as we just called him Luro."
Mary took the piece of fruit and stared at Luro, her eyes moved to the symbol on his chest as did Lily's and for a brief moment she felt as if she had seen that symbol somewhere, looking over at Nolan she noticed he had a similar one on his pin which meant it was probably their pirate symbol.
"Well I didn't want to be the leader, I was more than willing to give it so someone else," Luro said shrugging.
"You always said that, but you never stepped down either."
"I didn't have much of a choice anyway Lily I'd love to talk more about back then, but I'm in a hurry do you know where the tournament is being held?"
"You're entering Luro? Well I suppose that's not too surprising it's that way just keep going straight."
Lily pointed in the direction and Luro nodded and thanked her before he reached for Nolan and started to run.
"Hey hold on a second," Lily said holding her hand out. "If you're entering the tournament you'll be trying to get the cash prize right? I know this is a bit much to ask, especially after we just met again but...if you win would you mind sharing the money with me? I'll do the same for you if I win of course."
"You...want me to share the prize money?"
"Yes...Mary lost her parents some time ago and I've been caring for her but there's only so much I can do with what I have. I figured that if I could earn that money, or even a quarter of it I could create a life for us, or at least a start of one."
A small smile formed on Lily's lips and Luro's eyebrows narrowed slightly as he watched her, he smile seemed to shrink at little as he watched her.
"If we both aimed for it our chances would be better, you can even keep a majority of it 20,000 would be enough to at least do something, so what do you say?"
"No."
Luro's answers blunt and without a moments hesitation Lily's eyes widened and she felt her stomach knot as she stared at Luro who looked back at her with a small smile on his face, for a moment she wasn't sure if she heard him correctly but as he continued speaking she could feel her heart slowly sinking.
"I don't really need the money, we just got a bunch of treasure from Waterdeep and I still have some gold left over from when we took out that ship. I'd only spend it on rum and spare wood anyway. That being said if I win it I won't share any of it with you, and if you get in the way of me acquiring it I will kill you."
Mary's face even paled at Luro's harsh words, especially since he said it all with the kindest smile on his face.
"Luro...you...you don't mean that...you wouldn't kill a friend...you're not that kind of person?."
"I've killed plenty of my friends before this is no different, I'd kill you right now just to avoid the slim chance of having to bother with you later if there weren't guards around."
Lily's gripped her skirt her eyes narrowing at Luro who just tilted his head at her, eyebrows arching slightly seeing she had something she wanted to say. 
"Did becoming a pirate change you....Luro you were nothing like this. You were a good person who helped others."
"Hahaha that's a silly notion Lily."
"Is it?! You weren't like this before you were a pirate-"
"Oh no not the pirate part," Luro said interrupting her. "What made you think I was a good person in the first place? I did what I had to nothing more."
Lily entire being almost seemed to shut down at those words, she could feel her eyes watering and something grip her heart as Luro casually walked past her a small smirk on his face and a low chuckle escaping from him, her words caught in her throat and all she could was stand there and wait for him to walk away.
"I'm going on ahead Nolan oh and Lily you won't win the tournament so I'd recommend withdrawing, if I don't reach you someone else will no need to throw your life away, that'd be unfortunate especially for Mary....hahahahahahaha!"
Lily kept her gaze to the ground as her fingernails dug into her skin as she listened to Luro's laughter until it eventually faded in the distance.
Feeling a tug on her dress Lily looked over to see Mary looking at her clearly concerned about what just transpired, Lily closed her eyes regaining her composure and looked over at Nolan.
"If this is the company Luro keeps we want nothing to do with you or any of the StarDusk pirates," Lily spat at Nolan before grabbing Mary's hand and walking off.
"I won't let him take away our only chance."
"Lily...you don't have to enter the tournament...we can find another way...I don't want anything to happen to you and that guy-"
"I won't run away," Lily said her grip tightening a little. "Not from this...and I promised you didn't I, I'd never abandon you. I'll get that money and we'll be fine."

Luro reached the tournament just in time and ended up joining group C, he was a bit of a late entry but according to the man he wasn't the only one. Luro couldn't help but smile as he had a feeling Lily was the other person, after a few questions the man confirmed her appearance and Luro tried to find out what group she was in but the man didn't share it with him, it was a guess but he assumed she wasn't in his which he thought was a shame.
Lily would come Luro was aware of that and he wanted to see Lily in front of him in the arena, he was curious what her facial expression would be when he pointed his gun at her, though he was told killing wasn't necessary. He tried to inquire what would happen if he accidentally killed someone but he was just moved along.
Luro went to what he believed was a waiting room and sat down, taking his rifle off his back he took a small cloth out of his pocket and started cleaning it, a small smile rested on his face as he couldn't wait for his name to be called.