@Tenma TendoThe dove winged girl waited as patiently as she could for some kind of response to come from the brown haired woman clearly in distress over something. Heck, it seemed like she even left her comrades behind in the process too… However before she had a chance to speak up again in case she wasn’t heard in the first place, Eiko was slightly startled by the sound of a female voice coming from behind her. Turning around a bit too quickly for her liking, Eiko was greeted by a splash of pink brightening up the dreary browns around them and on herself. The scared voiced was definitely coming from this rather…familiar girl but that didn’t stop her from shaking her head vigorously at her.
"No, I really don’t think that would be...necessary.” Aki nodded in scared motion as the light of broad daylight still shone upon her face. Aki softly took a step forward into the darkened alleyway as her entire being trembled as if she had seen a ghost army, the dim light slowly enveloping over her body. As she was a few steps into the alley the sudden guard appearing behind her definitely caught her off guard. So much off guard that she hadn’t noticed the Demi-Human’s words slow down to a halt as the one thing she wanted not to come was right in front of them; asking if they had seen any cultist running around or not. The reactions were like night and day, Eiko remained mostly calm while Aki let out an audible shriek as she heard the booming voice of the guard right behind her. The later quickly turned towards the guard and stepped back against the wall, flashing a terrified look towards the guard but as soon as she noticed that it was a person she quickly calmed down to her usual scared self. That was a bit unexpected for a guard to show up when she just requested to get one for them. In Eiko’s case, her first instinct was to say ‘no’, but before there was a chance for either of the girls to say anything, the brown haired woman from earlier bounded off, taking the soldier with her and leaving the two younger girls together. Aki was somewhat tempted to see what Hilda was up too but was deeply terrified to move at all in the alley right now, while Eiko didn’t want to get involved in anymore silly business tat didn’t involve her. Nothing they could do about it now...
A confused smile graced Eiko’s lips as she brought her attention to Aki, walking up to the frozen in place girl slowly.
"Sorry if this sounds weird, but have I seen you somewhere before? Are you a worshipper of Od Laguna? Or maybe we’ve met somewhere else before?” She questioned with a tilted head as she left her staff rest at her side. Aki turned her blank eyed gaze towards the priestess. As she replied with a trembling voice.
“N-no I-I'm not a w-worshipper. W-we might h-have met before t-though. W-what makes y-you think t-that though?” Eiko arched her eyebrows slightly before halting in place. Anyone with common sense could see that the other was in some form for distress, so Eiko kept her distance and put her free hand up innocently, an action that was appreciated by Aki despite her not really caring so long as she could get back into the warm daylight again..
"Oh i see, well you aren’t exactly dressed for the part.” She joked before continuing.
"I’m not quite sure myself honestly...maybe...hmmm…” The brunette trailed off as Aki gave a short nod before the former suddenly perking up, a rather loud ‘oh’ escaping her lips.
"You’re that street performer! I’ve walked past some of your performances to get back home! Yeah that has to be you! Oh, what’s your name... Aiko? Akari? Aoi? Something like that? Right? Or does it sound like I’m just speaking straight gibberish?”At last she did guess that Aki was a street performer. Was it from pure guessing or from the sign on the side of her knapsack? Nobody knew but at least Aki was somewhat amazed she did get recognized from her shows. Aki softly blushed from the way she got recognized and started to clear up from the terrified thoughts a little. However the name guessing was proving to be more difficult however as numerous tries passed almost getting it right each time.
“A-Aki.”"Oh, right right! Aki! That’s what it was!”Aki tugged the knapsack towards the front of her body slowly undoing it from one shoulder to show Eiko the sign of the show she held everyday. It was a wooden sign that was decorated with cute drawings of her own face and flowers and rainbows. In the middle of the sign was the grand name of ‘Aki the great’ written quite terribly. No wonder Eiko couldn’t get her name right if she wrote the I almost like an O. Aki shyly let go of the sign again putting the knapsack properly on her back again as Eiko let out a faint laugh at how adorable the whole sign was.
“T-thank you f-for knowing a-about my p-performance.” Despites Aki’s irrational fear of the dark she still tried her hardest to appreciate her ‘supporters?’ Eiko only knew lightly of her shows but at least she had seen them once or twice which made her quite happy.
“C-can I know your name a-as well.” The question didn’t surprise her at all, as Aki had given her own name it was time for her to do the same.
"Oh, I’m Eiko Tachibana! I work down the street from this alley. It’s a pleasure to meet you!” She grinned, walking a bit closer before holding out her free hand in the process.
"Hey, mind if we get out of this place? It’d definitely be a lot better if we could talk somewhere else... I even got some spare change on me, maybe we could go somewhere else to try and forget whatever the heck we just bumped into...what do you say?”Eiko Tachibananna, Aki should remember that. Eiko worked somewhere in the busy shopping street as well as Aki did her shows. It was a given she would have seen one of her shows, it was the same street after all. Aki wondered what kind of work she would be doing then, she did look modestly dressed so maybe a somewhat small store that she set up on her own or a bigger store with an owner and everything. Aki shyly bowed towards the girl as she introduced herself.
”Y-yes, nice to m-meet you as well.”She eagerly said as she got hold of Eiko her hand. The priestess mentioned getting out of the alley since they had nothing to do here anymore. Aki hastily shook her head up and down as she already began tugging on the girl her hand to move back to the street again.
”Y-yes, I don’t like dark places a lot. Oh, where do you work Eiko? Can you show me? I’d like to see.”Getting out on the street immediately brightened the pink head her attitude drastically. It was way more cheery and hyperactive then the shy angsty girl in the alley.
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