It's been around a month since Caleb and Cole went missing. Hilt and I searched everywhere for them, but Hilt gave up after just a week. They'll come back eventually! I'll bet my life on it. But, we've been doing fine without them, it's not like they were the only things keeping us alive.

  "Pyra! Come on, we're supposed to go shopping today!" Teir compins.

  I did promise to take her shopping. I stand up from my bed and walk over to the door. Hilt sits on the ground, she's still sleeping, I won't bother her. Teir grips onto my wrist and gives me a hard tug. For a little girl, she's pretty strong. I wave to the receptionist as we leave the inn, she's the only monster that's actually somewhat decent in this pce. The sun's bright out today, but the air's not too warm, it's quite nice if I'm being honest. Teir leads me to a small shopping district, she has quite a liking towards small trinkets, a result of being royalty. I'd prefer to spend our money on weapons or foods, but it's also nice to see Teir happy every once in a while.

  "This one's perfect!" Teir excims.

  Teir's pointing towards a neckce, it's quite pretty. I grab the price tag and flip it around. Twenty gold!

  "This is way too expensive! There's no way we can get this." I tell Teir.

  "You sure?" Teir says, her pupils dite slightly.

  "Just look for another one, preferably less expensive." I say.

  "Fine!" Teir pouts.

  I walk around a few stands, most pces sell food or weapons. There is one that looks quite interesting! The person that runs the stand is a lizard man, I haven't had good experiences with lizard men. I step over to the stand, there's bounty posters all over a rge table. What kind of business even is this? He sells bounty posters?

  "Why hello, cusstomer! My names Ronny." The lizard tells me.

  "Hi." I say.

  "What may I'ss help you with?" He asks me.

  "What even is the business here?" I ask him.

  The man stands still for a second, chuckling to himself.

  "I'm a bounty poster! Wealthy mensss come to me, and pay me to sssend out bountiesss." He says.

  "Is that even profitable?" I mutter.

  "It's actually quite profitable! They don't jussst give me the reward money, I also get paid pretty handsssomely."

  I take a good look at some of the bounties. There's a surprising amount of revolutionaries with bounties. Maybe I'll even get one soon, also, didn't Caleb have a bounty? I wonder if it's still posted? Being a bounty hunter could make us a lot of money... I'm not super sure on killing for money though. Most of the people I've killed were considered "bad."

  "Anything ssstand out to you?" Ronny asks me.

  "Do you have any others? Most of these rewards seem pretty low." I tell him.

  "I'll sssee if I have anything rger!" He says.

  Ronny bends down below the table. He digs around a few baskets before standing back up with a piece of paper in his hand.

  "Does this one ssseem high enough?" He hands me the paper.

  The reward amount's real high... Maybe this one could be worth it? The person in the picture is a pretty young women, and kind of pretty. She has bck hair, and wears a lot of makeup. Name's Maria. Honestly looks a lot like me... Teir comes running up to me.

  "Pyra! I found the perfect one!" She excims.

  "Perfect what?" I stutter.

  "Just follow me!" She says.

  "Alright!" I say, "Mind if I keep this?"

  "No problemsss!" Ronny giggles.

  Teir grabs me by the arm and drags me over to a bcksmith. It smells like smoke and ash. A rge man covered in armor stands over an anvil, smming his hammer into an unfinished sword. Teir takes me up a flight of stairs behind the man. It's a whole room of weapons and accessories. We get to a shelf full of magic neckces. Teir points at one, practically shaking from excitement.

  "This one's perfect!" She says.

  I grab it off of the small rack it sits on. There's a small tag on it with some information. There's the price on one side, only three silver, and a small description on the other side. The description reads,

  "Large dragon scale, neckce.Forged from a dragons scales, this neckce gives the wearer instant beauty. It improves one's face and body exponentially."

  This seems like kind of a scam... A neckce that improves a persons looks? It is pretty cheap, even if it is a scam, the neckce itself is quite pretty.

  "Can I get it?" Teir asks.

  "Fine! But just this once." I tell her.

  "Thanks!" Teir yells.

  She grabs the neckce and practically runs towards the front counter. The dy there puts down her book, revealing her face. She's quite old and resembles our inn keeper. Both of them have dark red skin and small horns. Must be the same race. I walk over to the dy and put three silver coins on the counter. She takes the coins and shoos us out. We head back down the stairs, the man at the anvil took his helmet off. He's a rge boar man, his tusks are rger than any others I've seen.

  We reach our inn and go straight to our room. Hilt's awake and sits at the room's desk, writing something down.

  "Welcome back." She says.

  "Hey, how's it going?" I ask her.

  "Good." She says.

  I wonder what she does when we're gone. Every time we're here, she's either at the desk or sleeping. Has her life always been this boring?

  "Do you guys want to go out to eat ter?" I ask the two of them.

  "I guess." Hilt says.

  Teir doesn't answer, she's staring at the mirror, waiting for the neckce to take affect. Hilt still said yes at least, there's a real good soup pce nearby, maybe we could go there!