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"Would you like to buy a flower?"
Her soft voice had called out to him, and then he had gazed upon her beautiful features. He walking over to her, the girl who always stood across from the Bar, just in time to see her knocked down by a big burly man in armor. Her basket of flowers, such a bright color in these dark times, tumbled from her hands and onto the dirt street. She let out an annoyed huff and proceeded to arrange the flowers back in the basket. As if sensing his eyes on her, she looked up and he immediately felt his cheeks heat at her intense gaze.
'Urgh, what's the matter with me!' he cried in the back of his mind. He was tough, cool, not supposed to melt at the sight of a pretty young flower girl; a very pretty flower girl, whose green and white dress made her green eyes, big and expressive, stand out.
"Excuse me?" she said, approaching him slowly, snapping him out of his...well, goggling at this young lady.
"Nothing," he snapped, and immediately felt guilty upon the dejected look on her face. "Hey, listen," he began, his eyes falling to the basket in her arms, "you... don't see such carefully grown flowers around here."
She smiled lovingly down at the plants. "These? I grow them. Would you like to buy one? They're only one gold!"
If it had been any other woman, he would have told them to a stern no. He wasn't supposed to care. But for some reason he felt himself digging in his pouch for 10 gold, telling her to keep the change. Her eyes went eyes and started to protect but he insisted, still a bit confused as why he was acting so nice. Thinking he'd like to marry a girl like this, one that was older. Such a kind heart, there was something about this girl he liked.
Soon he walked away, back on his track to the Bar; but this time to the stairs. He went on the patio, and, hidden by the shadows, observed the girl; gently using a life erg crystal to preserve that one little flower.
And if people who proposed the young gal mysteriously disappeared, no one thought too much about it.