[IC] The merchants

[BK201]

The sun ws rising in, it was around 6 am in the Cronnax continent and farmers were already awake, children used to sleep until noon, a rooster could be heard crowing nearby. The group of merchants was camping in the fields of the owner of the rooster, they paid a small fee to stay there for a few days until one of the carts was repaired, as the group lacked the materials to repair it.

Laxar woke up annoyed by the rooster but soon his anger dissapeared when he saw his wife, Nadia, sleeping next to her, a "good morning kiss" would have been great but he didn't want to wake her up, she seemed to be having a nice dream.
Laxar moved away from her slowly trying to not make any noise, when he was far enough he sighed in relief and looked around stretching his amrs, he noticed some of his fellow merchants were already awake and walked to them,

[Dark Elsa]

Rulu groaned. Why did it have to be morning? Last night she had barely survived a attack from the members of her former bandit group. She stretched and began to prepare the cart with her assortment of weopons eating a apple as breakfast. She added the weopons of those she beat up to her wares. She was in a secluded area but she moved her cart away once she was ready and headed for the other merchants meeting place.

[Nuttynad]

Nadia woke up after awhile, only to find that Laxar was already up and gone. She looked around, but did not see him so she stayed where she was. Stretching, Nadia wondered how long Laxar would be away this time.

[manapool1]

Cain looked around there camp, a small girl wrapping her arms around his neck and her legs across his chest. She let out a yawn and rubbed her eye as cain walked over to his mule, feeding it an apple as he looked around. Everyone seemed so tired, as if waking up early was an unusual thing to do. Cain was raised on a farm, the roosters were simply nostolgia for him. Aofie wasn't from there but she was used to cain waking her up so early thanks to the old days. Quickly packing up there blankets and setting there things into there bags, cain let aofie down as she mumbled something about a dream. Quickly pushed his mule forward, starting there move towards the others.

[BK201]

Laxar was behind Cain and Aofuie, he notices the little girl was too asleep to keep herslef on her feet so Laxar piked her up and carried Aofie as if she was a baby.
"Waking up so early is not your thing, Aofi" Laxar said to the little girl and then looked at Cain with a smile.
"That cart should be repaired by noon, so will be out of here as soon as it is repaired. If we hurry we ould arrive at Valencia city before the bber festval starts"

[a00000000000]

Mr. Mustachio awoke, so he got up and stretched. He put on his top hat, monocle, and grabbed his cane. Then walked over to where the other merchants were. "Good morning, my fellow merchants. Besides selling our assorted goods, what shall we do today? I feel in the mood for a good cup of tea." and with that, he grabbed a tea packet and made himself some tea. He slurped it. "Quite delicious, if I do say so myself."

[Dark Elsa]

Rulu approached the group with a nod. "Good morning. " She said tossing her apple core away smiling at everyone. She was glad despite her past she was accepted as one of the group.

[xiledx]

Alexander woke up. He stretched a bit, before checking in his cart to make sure everything was still there. It was, so he walked over to where most people of their group were. "Hello" he said.

[manapool1]

Cain sat aofie on there mule as he was ready to talk business with laxar. Laxar was a bit of a leader to them really, well to him. He was always ready to take action and had a plan, so Cain always came to him with questions. "so how much of a profit will our cargo be getting us, and I mean subtracting the taxes and expences we have used for the trip. As he spoke he noticed the little girl out of her spot, and hearing here voice he realize she was back at were they had set up.

"cain, cain, you forgot one of your lady books" she said flipping to a picture of a nearly naked woman. Cain muttered a swear under his voice and jumped towards her and snatched the book away, putting it in his backpack. "I told you we don't touch brother's books, remember?" he said clearly shwing this was not the first time this had happened.

"but I just want to look at them, you can't even read why do you ne-" he said being cut off by cain
"you can't read either why do you need them! look just get back on the donkey we'll be going in a bit" he said looking around hopping he had not made a scene.

[BK201]

(aawww i wanted to hold her!)

Laxar couldn't hold his laugh, after a few seconds he calmed down and carresed Aofie's head "i will read it for you later" he said knowing what the book was about.
Then he looked at Cain and crossed his arms "we will get a good profit, dont worry about that. I have done this several times. The beer festival takes a lot of resources, so people from Valencia will buy anything they are offered. They not only need food, they also need iron for the floats they will make for the festival"

[Dark Elsa]

Rulu nodded as she listened to the others talk. "Festivals always bring good profit. I don't think I will sell many weopons but people could need protection from threats like bandits who may plan to sabotage the event."

[manapool1]

Cain's eye twitched a bit as he heard him promise to read to her. He was taken back by the need of iron. "aofie I guess you were right, that iron will go to use, maybe your already a better caravaner than I am" he said patting her head. That truthly his plan all along, to teach her an honorable trade that would keep her away from the military, something he wished he had been able to do when he was young. He could see it was hard on her, she was very dirty and had scabs on her knees, but he new it would toughen her up. Aofie nodded and laughed a bit, clearly proud of her success.

(sorry now is your chance)

[Gareth]

Lawrence woke up late in the day. He looked at where the sun was in the sky and silently cursed himself. It was quite rare for him to oversleep and he really wished that he had not done so today.

Even so he simply stretched the reins on his kart and had the horses moving quickly-it was only a matter of a few minutes before he arrived to where the other merchants had congregated. Reigning in the horses, he addressed them as a group, "Hello one and all", he called-waving politely as he dismounted. He then apologized as he walked up to them, "Sorry I'm late. Did I miss anything?" he really hoped he hadn't, because even with seemingly honest merchants, sometimes it seemed that even they would keep secrets from one another if they thought it would benefit them.

[Nuttynad]

Nadia stood up and walked around with her hood on. She soon saw Laxar and went to him, tugging at his sleeve when she caught up to him.

[Dark Elsa]

Rulu shook her head at Laurence. "No we were just discussing the beer festival and what we feel our clients would want and need..nothing too important." She told him.

[anonyMOUSE]

Drake was sitting on his bed sheet beside the burned logs of wood they used as their campfire, while sharpening his scimitar using a knife. Drake was still drowsy, you can see it in his eyes, he stayed up all night to prepare for provisions the group will be needing. Drake paid no attention to other merchants, he wasn't in a mood to socialize. After sharpening, he sheathed the scimitar back to its scabbard which was hanging on his hip. He rose up from his bed and went to the carts to check their conditions.

[manapool1]

cain smiled at nadia as she came to the man he was speaking with. Suddenly tensing up and he made sure his books were well hidden as he began to disband the conversation, leave the two to there business. "well as long as we make a profit we should be fine, the amount it will cost for food after the festival will be over exaggerated. Anywho I need to finish packing the mule, and make sure aofie doesn't read anymo- aofie?" he said looking around until finding rulu and the girl. Aofie walked away from what seemed like a boring conversation to one of her favorite caravaners. Rulu always made aofie happy for an odd reason. She scared her at first but not like the mustache man.

[Vortex]

Kolzan had been observing the group from afar, sitting in his tent smoking some herbs in his pipe. He decided it was time to go see what they where talking about, more importantly his herbs had diminished and was now bored. He got up and walked over "Hello friends. What are we talking about this fine morning?"

[a00000000000]

Mr. Mustachio looked up from his tea. "Good morow, my fellow merchant! We have been talking about the possibilities of our profits of the trade, and I do believe that we will make a good profit. Would you like some tea?"

[BK201]

Nuttynad said
Nadia stood up and walked around with her hood on. She soon saw Laxar and went to him, tugging at his sleeve when she caught up to him.

Laxar felt his sleeve being tugged and looked at back at Nadia, he smiles and hugged her hiding her face in his chest "Did you sleep well?" he asked softly and after a kiss in her forehead he turned at the others and finished greeting everyone one by one.

The boy who was paid to repair the cart arrived soon after and inmediatly started to work