I awoke to a painful throbbing in my stomach. My first thought was "OH DEAR LORD, THE BABY IS COMING!" my second thought was "how did I get pregnant?" my slightly clearer third thought was, "oh wow the ground is moving."
I looked around as much as I could and realized with embarrassment, that I had been thrown over the shoulder of Braga in nothing but the cloth that had covered me before. I looked around more and saw we were in a town with small buildings and shops lining the streets. People stopped and stared at us but no one seemed to be willing to interact. Essentially I was being carried half naked through a town and no one was lifting a finger to help.
Swell.
"Ahem." I cleared my throat. "Braga, while I certainly don't mind getting a free ride and escort, could you possibly put me down?! I'm mooning half the kingdom here!" I yelled blushing furiously.
"Hey you woke up! Bout time." She slung me gently off her shoulder and I slipped onto the ground, a small gust lifted the cloth and I heard several gasps from the crowd. "Oh take a picture it will last longer!" I felt my cheeks grow even deeper in colour as I wrapped the cloth kilt style around my waist.
Mellie cocked her head and looked at me, "would you mind if I did? I could get someone too sketch it. It's rather nice." Her eyes glazed a bit and I swear I saw her drooling.
"Mellie! Be decent!" Rula's cheeks reddened but she looked like she was trying not to laugh as she covered mellie's eyes and mouth. "Sorry about that lad, been a while since we stopped in a town. Adventuring builds up stress and err….addles the mind. Are ye feeling better?"
"Fine, just peachy." I noticed the crowds starting to take more interest so I leaned in and whispered. "So what happened with the old guy?"
Braga ginned "well after you fainted we left him in his bed and made it look like ha died in his sleep." She shook a large pouch in front of me. "Even got us a refund plus what we found in his safe. We're rich"
"Oh, wow okay umm." I was slightly at a loss for words. "Listen I hate to ask, but could we use some of that money to get me some clothes…maybe just pants?" I gestured to my half naked form in embarrassment.
Mellie smiled as she escaped Rula's hands. "but you look so good in a skirt, maybe we can get you some nice long black boots to match, a leopard loin cloth….mmm" a small drop of drool trailed out from her lips and I felt myself blushing like an idiot.
Rula sighed and laid her forehead in her hand. "Mellie, down girl. Aye lad we could, but we were just gonna drop ye off with the town healer and be on our way. No offense but ye were kinda a mistake. We need to be makin our way out of town before they realize what happened to the wizard." She spread her palms, "Not that yer not a nice lad and all, but not what we're lookin fer and we wanna wash our hands of ye."
"I'd like to wash him with my hands" said Mellie in a slight daze. Braga sighed and lifted her with one hand and threw her over her shoulder with the money bag. "Mellie stop talking…the sooner we get out of here the less chance we have of getting caught."
I stared blankly at them. "Wow, so you guys were just going to dump me here in a strange land, naked by myself. Well thanks a lot!" a smile crept up on my face. "Although, I bet the local authorities would be interested in the names of those responsible for the death of their only wizard…" I raised an eyebrow at them and grinned devilishly. Suddenly they were all ears.
"Oh aye lad?" suddenly there was a rather large axe tucked underneath my chin. "Now ye wouldn't go upsetting us like that would ye? We could have left ye alone up there with the wizard. Let ye take the fall for us."
I looked down and felt a sharp pain in my abdomen and saw Braga tilting a large blade into my stomach. "That's not how friends treat each other, you want to be our friend right?" she grinned and I sucked in my stomach away from the blade.
"Of course I wouldn't do that" I giggled nervously. "Look if you guys just get me some clothes and some spare cash I can manage on my own." A raised my hands in a non-threating manner. "That's fair right."
Braga and Rula looked at each other and nodded simultaneously, drawing their weapons back. Braga smiled, "We give you money and send you to tailors then we go. Safer that way." She pulled Mellie back from her shoulder and looked at her hand confused. "Mellie.…where did the money go?"
She pointed behind us. "That guy walking down the alley in black clothes took it." We turned our heads to see a very sneaky looking character turning a corner out of sight with a large bag of coins on his back.
Rula grabbed her by the shoulders and shook her yelling at the top of her lungs. "Why didn't ye say anything?!"
Mellie pouted her lips angrily before replying. "Braga told me to shut up! You said to always listen to you and Braga so that's what I did. Now can we go get him?"
"Dammit girl I swear ye have no sense in yer head. I'll go round and cut him off." She pointed a finger at the Halfling. "Ye and Braga chase him this way. That okay Brag-." She turned and saw the barbarian charging down the alley. "Err okay come with me. Lad, ye stay out of the way and we'll come back for ye." The two of them took off down the street and around the corner.
I stood there half naked sitting on a bucket near the stables as people walked past giving me strange looks and pointing. "Well this is just fantastic…"
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