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After Charlotte and Yuna's little dance number they stood side by side to give a quick bow before beginning Yuna's magic act. The audience continued to cheer and applaud at the girl's stellar performance.


People began throwing their drinks into the air, whistling and throwing money onto the stage causing Charlotte to step back so she wouldn't get hit with gold. Yuna quickly picked up the extra change while thanking the audience for their generosity.

Charlotte instinctively lowered her head as she waited for her friend to give the ok to leave the stage before she got pelted with more money.

"Hey, maybe you can give me a private dance, sweetings!" A patron called from back making Charlotte's face turn completely red.

Yuna quickly stopped grabbing the money to respond to the patron's lewd request, "sorry but we do not provide that kind of services." Yuna gave the audience a stern look to let them know the girls were not that kind of entertainers.

The air got a little tense for a moment but Yuna put on her usual smile to lift the mood. "Besides, she is not the only one who can entrance an audience!" Yuna walked in front of Charlotte and pulled out a wand the illuminated a blue glow from the tip. She turned to look at Charlotte and jerked her head to the stairs of the stairs giving her the signal to leave.

Charlotte grabbed her cloak from the floor, folded into a ball and scurried off the stage while the crowd was focused on Yuna's next act.

Dancing in front of people was embarrassing but it was worse when they started making strange requests afterward. Charlotte has met many lustful patrons during her travels but she still hasn't gotten used their comments.

Charlotte walked over to what she thought was her room, she had her mind set on packing her belongings so she could finally leave this filthy in.

However, no matter how many times she pulled on the doorknob it wouldn't budge. Charlotte came to the realization that Yuna must have locked the door so their belongings wouldn't be stolen.

Charlotte let out a disappointed sigh and squatted in front of the door. Hopefully, Yuna's act would be over soon.

Charlotte would actually find the door to be completely sealed an unopenable, as if cemented shut, which is itself suspicious. If she has any way of sensing magic, there is an impressive spellform running through the walls of that room. ((Mentioned very shortly after they got into the room))

"You mean the one I should drive through your abdomen?" she replies to Drake, hopefully not seriously, though the eyes that meet his aren't the most reassuring, "Yeah, I can do various echantm-- you just used that as another innuendo, didn't you?"

She glares for a moment.... before he feels a tug on the cord around his neck, Victi's hand having moved freakishly quickly to bring the shard into more full view. She let out a mischievous giggle as she stared at it, a hum of magic filling the room as her large fluffy tails wave weirdly behind her. It almost seems like she's looking through the shard more than at it....

It had been a few minutes since Charlotte sat in front of the locked door waiting for Yuna's return. After the sound of loud applause, Charlotte excitedly stood up from where she was sitting assuming the noise of cheering meant Yuna was done.

Charlotte went back to the bar of the inn to go find her friend who was still soaking up all the spotlight.

Some customers had noticed that Charlotte had returned from behind the stage and began whistling and waving at the girl.

"Back for another dance?" One patron asked.

"I am sorry but I believe this is the end of our show." Charlotte declined as politely as she could.

"What if I pay extra for another dance or buy you a drink, sweetings?" The customer persisted.

"My apologies, sir, but I need to speak to my partner about another dance. Again I apologize." It was clear that this stranger wasn't going to let it go so Charlotte began walking faster towards Yuna.

Charlotte was by the stairs of the stage waving her hands and whispering to Yuna to get her attention. Yuna eventually noticed Charlotte's arm movement's that gave the impression that something was wrong or she needed something.

Yuna smiled at the crowd and waved goodbye as she stepped off stage.

"Sheesh...you could have waited for me to finish." Yuna groaned.

"I'm sorry but the door to our room was locked and I needed the key." Charlotte made an apologetic smile.

Yuna rolled her eyes and started looking Through her satchel for the room key. "Alright, but I gotta get back to the innkeeper so we can get paid."

Charlotte led Yuna to the same room with the locked door and turned the doorknob to confirm that the door was still locked.

Yuna placed the key into the keyhole but the door wouldn't budge.

"Are You sure this is our room?" Yuna gave Charlotte a suspicious look, it wouldn't be the first time they accidentally walked into the wrong room.

Charlotte took a moment to think that maybe she did walk towards the wrong room.

Yuna turned to the door once more and sighed, "you could always just knock if you do not know..." Yuna said with a hint of annoyance.

"Sorry..." Charlotte lowered her head because she felt guilty for having possibly wasted their time.

"Hey, is anyone in here!?" Yuna shouted as she pounded on the door.

Neo would sit on the floor and start eating.Even though he wouldn't admit it,the food was pretty good.As he chew,he would close his eyes,going back to a certain memory with his family.With the uncle cooking,while everyone else was talking.After he finished,he would say,"Ok,time to chose your weapon"

The sound wouldn't reach Drake's ears, Victi's privacy spell would see to that, but that same spell would let her know about commotion, or knocks at the door.

She suddenly tilted her head and quirked an ear as the knock reached the magical part of her hearing. "One moment please, we have company," she says to Drake, annoyed.

She doesn't let go of the shard as she supresses the privacy spell, and shouts, "What d'you want?" toward the door.

Drake first snickers at the threat but freezes when Victi snatches the shard dangling around his neck. He halfway reaches for his sword, the fear that she’s changed her mind about killing him crossing his mind.

Then a flicker of irritation crosses her face as she flicks her ears at at a sound he, for some god-forsaken reason, can’t hear.

When Victi turns to address this issue, he pulls back, trying to rescue the shard and himself from her grip.

She sighs and lets go. A brief, nauseating wave of loose mana washes over Drake. "I was in the middle of using that to sense for the other shards, but fine, have fun with your panic and mild backlash," she mutters.

Both Yuna and Charlotte flinched when they heard a response from the other side of the door. Well, at least they could confirm that Charlotte was just the wrong room which was no big deal.

"Sorry, wrong door!" Yuna nervously chuckled, from the tone of the stranger's voice they might have been interrupting something important.

"We are so sorry if we disturbed you", Charlotte replied.

Yuna stepped away from the door, making a hand gesture to Charlotte to signal her to follow so they could look for the right room.

"No problem!" Victi calls back 'cheerfully', her lips tensed in irritation to make her mouth run the entire length of her jaws. She sighs and reactivates the privacy spell before asking Drake, "Could I get back to scrying now?"

She eventually stopped dancing and puts the cloak back on. She quickly got serious again and began just walking again. She touched her snowflake hairpiece and sighed. "Just need to walk." Evelyn hated her newfound paranoia from her shard. She decided to just walk and watch the world around her.

There was a handsome young man who was just leaning against the wall, arms crossed. He had his eyes closed, tapping his left finger against his right arm He looks like he could be of assistance. Maybe

Yuna walked over to the door across from the occupied room they were investigating before. Charlotte noticed from the corner of her eye that there was a young man leaned up against the wall. She averted her eyes away from the man to avoid having to make eye contact and watched Yuna try to open the door.

Yuna had placed the key into the hole and turned it a quarter of the way clockwise to see if it would click. The door made an unlocking noise that made Yuna's lips curl into a smile, but when she tried to move the door it wouldn't budge.

She let out an aggressive groan that even startled Charlotte.

"What's wrong, Yuna?"

"The damn door is jammed, again! Stupid low-quality inn!" Yuna kicked the door to release her frustration but immediately winced in pain as she kicked a little too hard.

"Ow ow ow ow ow..." Yuna grabbed her injured foot while hopping on one leg.

"I will go get the innkeeper", Charlotte muttered.

The young man laughed. "Looks like you could use a little assistance" he had his eyes still closed, but he heard Yuna repeated "Ow" a couple times. He opened his eyes and looked around, his eyes were light green

Yuna turned to the stranger and glared, the man's unwarranted comment was not helping the situation.

"Alright spooky...how about you wake and help a girl put like a true gentleman!" She retorted.

"Y-Yuna!" Charlotte cried her friends name as a way of scolding her for being rude, but honestly, maybe he didn't mean what he said or at least in the manner he said it she thought.

Charlotte turned to the man with a pleading look in her eyes, "could you help us open the door?" She asked shyly.

He nodded and smile. "Maybe after an apology," he said as he walked to the door. He observed it, before banging it with his fist a couple of times in different areas, before pushing the door open. "There, all done" he looked at Yuna "Spooky opened the door for you"

Luna crossed her arms in a defensive manner and spun on her heel so she wasn't facing the cocky stranger. She puffed her cheeks and raised her nose in the air like a bratty child that was just told 'no'.

"You started it...!" She muttered her face turning incredibly red.

Charlotte placed her shoulder on her friend's hand to soothe her bruised ego and turned to the stranger to thank him.

"We appreciate your assistance, kind sir. This is the third time the door had jammed on us..." Charlotte looked the stranger in the eyes for quick a moment to show her sincerity but instinctively turned her face away soon after.

She then turned to Yuna who was still pouting, she was suddenly reminded that there was something that they were supposed to be doing.

"The payment!" Charlotte cried.

"What payment?" Yuna looked confused.

"Our money for the show!" Charlotte exclaimed.

"God's I forgot!" Yuna put her hands on her head in a panic and ran off to the bar where the innkeeper was serving drinks. Charlotte turned to the stranger to bow her head as a way of thanking him again. She entered their room, closing the door behind her and begun to pack their things.