Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-8162277-20131203024817

Elysia strolled through a small store. They sold books, which she hadn't read much of in her life. Once she had run away, she had been able to read books regularly, but found herself perplexed by them. There were many cases in which Elysia couldn't understand why the hero was the hero. Sometimes they had little strength, and in her mind, all heroes were brutish (commonly attractive) men and women with a gift for battling. Nevertheless, Elysia still felt the oddest desire to come back to this store. Maybe because of how few people crossed its threshold. She always felt most comfortable alone.

Elysia felt a tap at her shoulder. She looked over, having not noticed anyone other than herself and some boy enter. There were three people in front of her, all of them unruly-looking men with hardened faces, a few years older than she was, the one standing before the others (clearly their leader) smirking with... Some emotion that she normally saw when the Hunters from her earlier life had planned to give her a more humiliating or treacherous duty. She addressed them quickly, as they clearly requested an audience of some kind. She didn't even notice that they were all armed. "Oh, h-hello." She sad meekly.

"Hey." The one in front said to her. "That's a nice dress. Must have cost a big bit of cash, huh?" He moved closer to Elysia as he spoke, almost uncomfortably close. "There must be more where that came from, right?" Ok, he was definitely too close.

"No, not exactly. This dress was a gift. I don't have much myself." Elysia blushed. She didn't receive compliments like this often.

"Oh, well, maybe you could just, uh, show us exactly how much you have, and then we can decide how much we want."

Elysia removed some Lien from her pocket, puzzled as to why they wanted to see her money. Surely it was clear she had little of it, so she didn't see what pleasures awaited them if she showed them. Nevertheless, she took out the small amount she had and showed it to them.

"Hmm, disappointing." The man said to her. "We'll just have to ask for it all then. And remember, we only ask nicely once."

Comprehension (or so she thought) dawned on her. They needed money from her. That was why they wanted to know how much she had. Elysia was in no position to decline, and though she needed her money, she knew that she should give it to him. He was clearly much stronger than she was, and therefore more deserving of wealth than she.

"Here, you can have it." She said, holding it out to him.

The three men stood, dumbfounded, staring at her blankly. Then the one in front began to laugh, followed by chuckles from the two behind him. "Thank you very much for your, uh... Generosity." He chuckled and left, his two friends following after him quickly. Elysia turned away from them and looked around at all the books. Well, now she couldn't buy any. Still, she could look at some, maybe even read the first chapter of one, so long as no one spotted her. She began looking through them again, completely unaware of what she had actually done. 