60 C60 Budding Business

Ameria looked at the woman who had managed to get them the free stay for the cart, quickly bowing as she nodded her head.

"Thank you, Madam."

She sadly got no response as the woman just continued on her way, Ameria not taking it personally as she just got a free service out of something that was going to cost her a few thousand golds.

The dark elf signing a few papers before the grump merchant took the cart inside, locking both inside the shed, as the words before had shaken him to the core.

Her eyes were lighting up as he heard the man was going to be heading to the springs like them. Her smile was growing as she approached the man, holding her hand out.

"Hello, I heard you were heading to the hot springs, maybe we could join you?"

Ameria smiled as she pushed her hand out, the Dark Elf confused as his body turned to the woman, staring at her for a brief moment as he looked her over.

"Well, I am indeed heading to the springs. I've gotten some extra cash saved so I guess I can rest well!"

Denoth gently laughed as he looked over the woman, she was a military type. His eyes were looking at the woman standing next to her as well, including the plant women they appeared similar to Ameria.

"Forgive me; my name is Denoth. I do not care all too much for last names so please call me Den or Denoth. I must say you all are very well armoured and armed, military?"

Ameria stared at him for a moment; this man had pegged them rather quickly even though they only wore light leathers and had a few weapons. She had an eye on this man now as she nodded.

"Ameria, Kaye and Kai"

She pointed to herself, then to Kaye behind her who seemed slightly nervous, apparently needing to say something but holding her tongue as her leader was still talking to someone else, Kai ignored the whole thing as she waited for them to continue onwards.

"We are guards for the leader of this group, shall we walk and talk?"

Ameria started to move before she felt a hand grabbing hers, Kaye staring into her eyes with intent as a sigh escaped her lips. "Please excuse me for one moment Denoth."

The man smiled at them, waving them away as he turned to look at the plant woman, war dancers being a rarity around these parts.

"So, how did you get this kind of job?"

"..."

"What do you do for fun?"

"..."

"Do you speak?"

Kai not only blanked the man, she even turned slightly away from him, merely waiting for the others to come back.

'Damn, I guess I was right about War Dancers being cold to others from the intel I got.'

"Kaye, why did you drag me to this back alley, what is so important that we can't talk while walking to the hot spring."

Kaye rubbed her forehead, pinching the bridge of her nose as she looked to her with worry. "Vampires, they run the hot springs. Nathan and Auryn went inside while I came to tell you."

Ameria rolled her eyes as she looked at the woman, apparently not all that interested in this story.

"Did Nathan appeared all to bothered?"

"Well, not really?"

"That is for good a reason if he is not worried then we should be fine. If the vampires were destroying or hurting then the town here would not exist."

"Yeah, I suppose you are right. I just heard so many things from others about vampires, how they massacre entire army's with only a few hundred of them."

Ameria just laughed as Kaye spoke the last line, shaking her head as she turned to walk out the alley and back into the main street.

"We have one man that can do that job for us, so really we should worry more about Nathan then some vampires. They have a cannon while we have a comet."

Ameria walked back to the two of them, Kai and Denoth in an awkward mood as they just stood together not talking, a strange tension in the air as she came back.

"Ahh, you came back. Excellent shall we head off and continue or conersation?"

Ameria again nodded her head as she followed alongside the man, the two women falling behind as they started to head to the manor.

"So, what are you doing in this town then. I'm assuming you are guarding a trading caravan, though you are too small to be trading anything much. I'm guessing this is a scouting mission?"

Ameria eyes darted to the man as he hit the nail on the head, looking him over as she noted the similar statement from the man.

"I'd say the same roughly for you; one cart only means that you are also here to scout," Ameria said

"You have caught me on that one. I'm from the Sengi underway. I'm currently on a mission to locate new supply options. I'm only staying in this town for a few days while looking for other sources."

"Well, Denoth I can say that I have an amazing deal for you. We were planning on heading to the underway. We are a new town set up, in a valley that has many natural resources. It's untouched by the desert, and we have food, wood, and water in abundance."

Denoth's head snapped to the woman as he stopped walking, his eyes glinting with the hint of a good deal to be made. His smile was growing with each moment as he started to walk again after getting out of his shock.

"Well, I think we can make a good deal. If you have all the natural resources why do you need us then?"

"Oh you are far to smart for me Denoth, we are a new town like I said. Tools, equipment, and metals are not something we have. So we need a partnership. Food, water, and wood for tools, equipment, and materials.

"Ameria, I can already see this becoming the start of a beautiful relationship."