[August 17, 2:27 PM - Random Street Corner]
"Wait! I, I have an ans-"
Before Ami could finish voicing her notion of accepting or declining the man's offer, the vehicle accelerated and sped out of sight.
It seemed waiting for her input had never been on the table.
The tiara(and little else)-clad girl sighed and slowly got to her feet, lightly brushing off her legs with one hand as the other tried to pull the blanket around her.
Then a sharp gasp drew her attention. Ami, blinking, looked over her shoulder, and as a blush swept over her face, she realized a passing woman was staring at her in horror.
Specifically, her exposed rear.
"AHH!" Ami shrieked and turned around to conceal her nudity, frantic to pull the blanket around herself. "I, I can explain...!"
To the woman watching, the deviant attempting to explain herself in Japanese may as well have been a mute. She yelled something in a foreign tongue that didn't sound very complimentary at all. Ami went wide-eyed, and turned to sprint away before her predicament worsened any... and instead backed right into the broad-shouldered frame of a well-dressed man.
As Ami landed unceremoniously on her rear end once again, she tried to blink the stars out of her eyes as she stared upward to the genial face of her supposed attorney, who was offering her a welcome hand.
Despite lacking any real knowledge of what was being said, it was no offer she was about to refuse.
Her hand shakily accepted the warm grip, and Ami slowly got to her feet.
"T, thank you..."
The man gave an awkward smile and looked elsewhere while rubbing at the back of his neck. At least some people had manners. She was not able to make out much... but there was the sound of a name. 'Klavia?'
It sounded disdainful. Was he referring to the slick-talking man in the vehicle?
Ami was sure glad to be away from him. She got quiet as she followed silently in the man's footsteps, once again clutching the blanket around her body to conceal whatever she could. It was enough to keep her nudity from being apparent, but a barefoot girl in a tiara with her legs freely viewable well past the knee still drew more than a few stray glances.
The walk had been awkward at best, but at least her modesty hadn't been compromised further, and the attorney had done a respectable job of helping to conceal her however he could. He did have a pretty broad frame. Were all attorneys that... built?
Ami realized she was staring, and worse, blushing. She shook her head, and quickly pulled the blanket tighter around her lower body. She could not afford distractions of that sort, not in the slightest.
"A, ah... how much... further is it?"
As if realizing he'd been addressed, the man turned and smiled at her, and she could only hope no one would Ami's renewed blush against her.
It sounded reassuring. So it couldn't be much further.
Sure enough, after a mere two minutes of passing through the sparsely occupied sidewalk, they arrived at the small stairs leading up to the office she had been unceremoniously tossed out of less than half-an-hour before.
"Thank you..." Ami smiled up at the man in genuine appreciation, and was met with another one of those awkward grins in response.
Had Ami known what was waiting for her upon entering the building, she might have kept her guard up.
Upon entering, she could only stare and blink at the younger man in the red vest who looked over to her as if she were an alien. He had been about to get up from the leather sofa, though judging from his blush, he wasn't accustomed to seeing girls as lightly dressed as her.
And judging from Ami's swiftly reddened face, she certainly wasn't prepared for yet another handsome face.
