the cat and the fish [Neo]

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Ylisstol, not the kind of place one would expect to find an outcast like Dart. But if one thought more about it, about her chosen vocation and the path she walked, why wouldn't it be the ideal place for her to coexist with the rest of the world? The hustle and bustle of the big city meant she could come and go practically unnoticed from anywhere she wanted, remaining anonymous with the crowd. And there was something about the isolation one could find a crowd of nameless faces, an occupied loneliness that appealed to Dart. She wasn't overly fond of being alone, but she wasn't much for socializing either. And then there were the potential scores. Leagues of shops full of goods she could make away with, it was easy money for a good burglar. Houses galore and the fact that a single robbery wouldn't immediately put everyone up in arms as it would in a small village where when anything outside of the routine changed the whole place got uppity about it. On this particular day, however, Dart had no need to seek out a score nor blend into a crowd. No, instead she was merely relaxing in the waning sun of the passing summer, enjoying the calming sea breeze. The ocean lay before her, framed by the coasts on either side of the harbor, yet they did nothing to dampen the vast openness that was the horizon, blue disappearing into darker blue without so much as a seam. It was beautifully intimidating, and Dart admired it from a distance. She sat quietly with her back against a pile of crates stacked behind a market booth, just outside the fisher's market that was buzzing with activity, a new catch just arriving. She enjoyed the constant noise, the rumble of conversation she didn't need to listen to, and turned her golden predatory eyes back down to the paperback novel on her lap, the cover folded back over itself for easy while she read. Neo

侘寂

BE A BODY I close my eyes until I see, I don't need hands to touch me

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[Neo]

VOICES WON'T GO AWAY

they stay for days and days

They say some awful things, ways to make you fade away
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@quill

Neo wasn't sure why he had come to Ylisse in the first place. So he was sitting on the seabed trying to figure it out. But even the ocean floor got boring after a while, all the same fish swimming in circles and the occasional shark that thought it could get the better of a lone Zora. Looking up at the water's surface, Neo could see the color change that came from the sun settling beneath the horizon.

It became too much. The darkening depths of the bay was depressing and Neo was overcome with the desire to get to the surface. Breaking through the surf the Zora looked towards the shoreline and began to make his way to the beach.

The sand gave way to his drenched steps as he walked towards the city that had grown fat from it's industry of fishing exports. Each shop would be closed for the night by the time he arrived but he was fine with that. Perhaps a tavern would be open and moderately filled enough to entertain for the night before returning to Zora's Domain in the morning.

In Ylisstol itself something caught his eye. Amongst the hustle and bustle of the city there sat a girl wearing a black bow and reading. "Is that a good book?" Neo asked the odd young woman.

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The waning sun meant it would grow more and more difficult to read her book. Dart's Laguz eyes certainly helped to prolong the process, allowing her to read the text even after normal Beorc eyes would have faltered, but that would only do for so long. Eventually there wouldn't be enough light to decipher text regardless of how well your night vision was. But it didn't look like the burglar was going to have to worry about straining her eyes or continuing with the novel. Her ears, hidden beneath the ribbon atop her head, twitched against the sound of wet footsteps, and her nose wriggled. The smell of the sea was powerful, even more so when it clung to someone. Golden eyes turned upward as she heard the voice of the stranger once she was approached. They glanced back down at the paperback that was folded over on lap, and the woman simply shrugged her shoulders. "Not really," she said simply, with a dry, matter-of-fact tone. Her fingers slipped beneath the page she was on, doubling the corner back over itself to dog ear the page before closing the book over. Eyes once again flickered away, toward the sun as she realized how much it had set since she had settled in there. She groaned, legs stiff from sitting, and pulled herself to her feet, finally taking the time to examine the stranger who was talking to her. He was an odd one, moisture clinging to his form as if he had been swimming, though people rarely swam in the harbor directly off of Ylisstol. The answer was more obvious, however, in the fins that adorned his body. A Zora? She'd heard of his kind before, from a land across the sea, but Dart had never actually seen one up close. Granted her life had been surprisingly sheltered, but she knew enough to identify him immediately. "Can I help you?" she inquired, her tone not particularly hostile but not polite either.

侘寂

BE A BODY I close my eyes until I see, I don't need hands to touch me

⌔

[Neo]

VOICES WON'T GO AWAY

they stay for days and days

They say some awful things, ways to make you fade away
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@dart

"If it's not a good book sweet, then why are you straining yourself to read it?" Neo asked the girl. "You'll go blind that way, and your eyes are much too pretty to get clouded over." The flirt flitted casually over his lips without thought of how the Laguz would react. That's when she looked at him, the anticipation of what would inevitably happen next.

He waited a bit longer and he saw the realization dawn on her face. She knew who he was now. She seemed less amazed than most people but he assumed it was because of the way he looked right now, still slightly damp and all. "Yes it's me Neo, the drummer for the great Indigo-gos." He gave a small bow. "I don't usually give autographs but I suppose I could make an exception in the case of such a lovely young woman." He flashed a million rupee smile at her.

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