"A mage? What's that like?" Aya asked curiously. "I don't think I've ever met one of them,"
The cashier, who at this point had not given her ared at Aya with an expression of incredulity. After all, mages were one of the most popur csses most people chose to py, sed only to knights who were at the top of character creation.
"I find that hard to believe," the cashier said. "What do you py?"
"A summoner,"
Aya was met with a snort in reply, the cashier put down the magazine ready to face the versation.
"Now that's...iing," she said.
"I'm Aya, by the way, you uh...haven't given me your he brue said in a friendly manner, maybe they would be able to exge information and py when Aya eventually left Bloom Haven.
"Nisha," the cashier replied folding her arms. A silence passed between them, Nisha wasn't much of a talker and Aya felt too awkward under her cold gaze.
"It's o meet you, Nisha," Aya said lifting her drink in a pseudo cheer.
Nisha raised an eyebrow at Aya’s cheerfulhen cracked a slight smile. She leaned ba the ter and sighed.
“It's o meet you too, summoner,”
“Summoner? It’s a little weird to call someone by their game css isn’t it?” Aya said rubbing the back of her head sheepishly, the cashier was frankly a little weird but Aya was never oo be rude to someone because of that.
Especially in the enviro, she grew up it. The apartment oskirts of town, Aya guessed she could have decided to find a p the city but the crime in more affordable areas would make that a death wish.
“I’d like to be addressed as Mage,” Nisha said with a serious tone. Her dark brown eyes looked away from Aya and back tazihe lights above them flickered prompting them both to look up at the same time.
Aya didn’t want the other feeling judged, after all maybe Moon Valley helped her with social skills, the area retty isoted and Nisha probably didn’t get to talk to a lot of people often.
Aya khese were a lot of assumptions but it was all she o acquiesbsp;
“Alright Mage, so what’s your favorite part of Moon Valley? I really like potion making and exploration maybe,” Aya said with an awkward ugh, it was all worth it when Nisha’s head perked up at the respoo her request.
The act reminded Aya a lot of Risel, the way the elf’s ears would move and twitch with emotion whenever she said something iing or sad.
“Looting bosses, I’ve beaten a number of them,” Nisha said eagerly. She didn’t get to talk about the game often, that much was clear.
“That’s my least favorite part,” Aya whined.
Nisha gave a small smile before it saying.
“Your party’s probably trash then,”
Aya paused, taking a moment to take in the girl’s words about her beloved Sprite and Rabbit Knight. She opened and closed her mouth, trying to find words of rebuttal, all that came out was a small.
“Huh?”
“Oh was I too blunt, you’re a summoner and I know they be pretty weak but you should try to equip as many summons as you as fast as you ,” Nisha replied all in one breath, Aya couldn’t tell if it was awkward or apologetic the way Nisha looked away from her.
It was the most Aya had heard her speak so far, Nisha clearly liked the game and knew a lot about the css she pyed, but that wasn’t the right way to say things.
“Right...have you met any other summoners in game?”
“Not many people py them,”
“Why?”
“It's tra-I mean the skill floor to get good at pying is pretty high,” Nisha said folding her arms.
At least Aya could say she was making an effort not to be as blunt as she previously was. Nisha rubbed her arms allowing Aya to get a glimpse of the cute nail polish and nail art the girl had on her fingers. It was bck with little skulls scattered over each finger nail
“And they ’t really participate in PVP,”
“Oh yeah, why do people like PVP so much it just seems like a hassle y’know? Pyers jump you and stuff?”
Nisha snorted.
“Only if you’re weak,” she said with utter fidence.
Aya decided she liked this cute but mean girl. Nisha was different and looked about her age, she wasn’t mean the way Viviana was. Haughty and degrading, Nisha was quite endearing.
“Do you want to exge IDs?” Aya asked with a shy smile.
Nisha gasped, eyes widening at the sound of the question. She watched Aya take out her phone and begin opening
“You really want to be friends in game?” she asked leaning over the ter iement.
“Yeah but it’ll be a while before I get to one of the main areas in the game, I’m currently stu a secluded area,”
“Is it a proving ground?” Nisha asked as she entered her game ID into Aya’s phone.
“Something like that,” Aya said, at this point, it would be wiser to keep her mouth shut about Bloom Haven, too many pyers even on the forum were trying to find out her secrets.
“Oh been there, I’m on my way to Alfinheim,” Nisha said.
“That sounds elvish, are you an elf?” Aya asked.
“A human actually, I know elves have the best stats fic but I like how banced humans py,” Nisha said. “And yes Alfinheim is one of the rgest kingdoms of elves, everything about elven lore is in there,”
Aya was gd Nisha ening up a bit.
“I gotta go but let’s meet sometime in game and if you need some potions I’ll brew them, my alchemy is pretty good,” Aya said hopping off the ter she had been sitting on. She made her way towards the exit as she spoke,
“Alchemy, that’s such a rare skill!” Nisha said in a whisper as if someone was waiting to poach Aya from her. Aya stopped to giggle.
“If I e across any summon stones I’ll trade with you first before I au them off,” Nisha ed a finger around her Afro curls shyly as she spoke. She didn’t get off from work for a while so all she could do eak before the checkout line.
“I’m sorry I was mean about your party, other pyers are usually a bit antagonistic,”
“Oh no worries, I uand,” Aya said. The same applied in the real world, sometimes the only thing you could do was anticipate an enemy, evehere was o be found. “The world’s a rough pce,”
“You got that right,” Nisha said sn again. “Hey there’s going to be a tour in town, are you game?”
“What kind? Who’s hosting it,”
“Eos querors,”
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