p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Amity spent the next few days in the dark after the noodle shop trip with her friends and shopping with her siblings. The greenette hadn't left the apartment since… she had no drive to, but today she had to go on a date. Today she was to meet the man she would spend eternity with… in all reality the Blight was seriously considering lying, claiming she's sick. 'For the company' she could almost hear her father say, while her mother stood behind smirking. Amity knew she couldn't just keep living in her room in hibernation; no desire to eat. She couldn't continue calling into the work… she couldn't let em style="box-sizing: border-box;"her/em put her life on hold. Again./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Sighing, the woman had gotten into the shower. "Stop it Amity. You're being a baby. Suck it up…" She told herself, hot water cleaning not only her body but her mind as well. Ever since the businesswoman has been back she hasn't even been able to tolerate looking at herself. Where the self-hatred uprooted from was a mystery. Now she stood in front of the mirror with the outfit her sister talked her into buying, she groaned in displeasure./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Luz, you can't keep this up. I mean fuck, it's only 5:30!"/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Luz looked up, glass still firmly in hand, voice dripping with venom; "And there's a problem with that Juan?" the brunette's eyes radiated her unreasonable pained anger./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""It's been, what, four days since she left? You haven't been sober one night since!"/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Juan and Luz sat in a corner booth of a darkened quiet pub at the very back. Most would say 5:30 at night was way too early to start drinking, but the Latina hadn't really cared. Time didn't mean anything, as she hadn't slept but the first night since her departure. She couldn't… her dreams were haunted by the greenette./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Hn, why should you care." Sneered the criminal, lifting the mug to her face./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Because Luz, you're my friend." Said the white-haired man./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Luz furrowed her brows. "Friend… I don't have friends. They only get in the way of my revenge... You're just a traveling acquaintance." The brunette laughed wickedly. Juan hadn't taken Noceada's words to heart though./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Well, too bad I care about your wellbeing huh?"/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Luz then retaliated, "Well you shouldn't. I don't care for you, or anyone for that matter. So just stop!" Her words may have been empty, but stung something fierce. Antonio sat nearby at the booth, a worried silence visible. Maria had been asking the bartender once more for directions./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"The Criminal team had just made it to a neighboring region yesterday, all disapproving of their leader spending every night at a different bar. They could all see she was hurt, all but herself. Luz insisted nothing was wrong the whole time and drank until furious or passed out./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"By eight that night the club was packed. The criminals had yet to leave, though Luz's state of mind has passed the point of rationality. The group watched the crowds and loners like a predator stalking its prey on the verge of pouncing. All four members were cloaked: their hoods up./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Antonio, go get me another beer." demanded the Noceada, and the orange-haired man hadn't put up an argument as he grabbed the glass./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Antonio approached the server, " Another beer please." the man gave Antonio a disapproving look but gave him the beer nonetheless./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Thank you… Why's this place so packed tonight? is it always this way?" asked the tall man as the bartender filled Luz's glass./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Magnolia and the Boiling Isles have come to a treaty. Two high-end business people are to marry in a week and a half, making this whole area more economically stable."/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""High-end business people?"/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Robert Bump and a Blight I think. Neither liked by the people but they were born into greatness I guess" the man shook his head./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"'Blight, that sounds familiar…'/em thought Antonio as he walked away with a drink in his hand./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""What took you so long?" questioned the drunk Latina, the taller man sat down Luz's drink and took a seat./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""I was just curious why everyone's here…" he explained quietly./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Luz cackled, "Why's that? amuse me."/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""I guess two wealthy people are marrying, Robert and a Blight, for some treaty and economic stabilizer." Luz was mid-motion, bringing the cup to her mouth when her grip shattered the glass. now wide-eyed, pissed, and wearing her liquor, Luz stood abruptly./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Hey, lady! You're gonna have to pay for that!" shouted a regular at the joint, only 15 feet away, playing pool. Luz pulled back her hood and everyone suddenly gasped, whispers heard everywhere. the criminal wandered over and picked up a cue stick./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""What was that?" Asked Luz, too wasted to care what trouble she attracted , Luz was looking for trouble. This was no surprise, before the month's journey Luz Noceada gained quite the reputation around these parts./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""I… uhh... N-nothing!" explained the much larger man in leather apparel that had called her out./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"The sinister Noceada smirked incredulously. "Wrong answer," she said just before breaking the cue stick against the guy's head; and a full bar fight broke loose./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Amity sighed as she stared in the mirror. " I look ridiculous," she said out loud, studying her features. The greenette wore a pair of pink stilettos and a knee-length mint green dress. the material wrapped around her chest. Her hair was curly with very little make-up done. Primarily just her eyes and lips like her sister suggested. "Well, I guess there's no time to waste."/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"It was already 7 in the evening, and whoever this guy was supposed to meet her at the only real sit-down restaurant in Bonesborough. The youngest Blight walked, enjoying the moment of the dark sky's breeze, as this situation made it feel like where she walked was the last bit of freedom she really had./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Now inside, she looked at all tables in sight, not sure exactly who she had been looking for. The man at the reception stand who seated everyone tried to ask Amity who she was looking for, but the businesswoman paid no attention to him. she was lost in the articulate wall canvases and lights sprung up at the ceiling trim; the heavenly smell radiating from the kitchen./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""I take it your Amity Blight, not many women have green hair exactly." said a soft male voice./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"the woman gasped as she had been caught off guard and spun around. in front of her now stood a man; He had brown hair that flowed just past his shoulders. It was straight and brushed back, his skin was pale white, like the snow, and his eyes were ice-cold pale blue embers. His smile seemed contagious, huge beautiful straight sparkling teeth behind angelic carved light lips. A single small scar between his eyebrows, closer to the beginning of the right one. Robert Bump's build was rather broad-shouldered, arm's well toned. indeed the man was conventionally handsome, but not at all Amity's type, and was no replacement for Luz Noceada.../p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"" , we meet finally." the male laughed light-heartedly, standing a whole four inches taller than she./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Call me Robert please. Come, let's sit."/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"After having spent. The past 20 minutes. Talking and ordering food. Amity was shocked./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""What do you mean you're not even a businessman?" She asked. "I was the son of a wealthy merchant. I had no need to fight. My servants can do such barbaric things for me. I'm all about the brains of Amity Blight and from what I hear, you're one of the smartest women in the boiling Isles." he grinned./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Yea…" Her mind was elsewhere. This was Amity at her most ladylike after spending a month with a bunch of criminals. Every gesture he made was, well, elegant. Never slept outside or cooked his own meals…/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"em style="box-sizing: border-box;"'At least I don't have to worry about this man reminding me of Luz, the/em comically sneered with a bitter look./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Soon the meals were delivered, and sitting in front of Robert had been a tofu patty of sorts, three neat rice balls as its side./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""I'm watching my carb intake for the wedding," he explained, as the server sat a heaping large stake with some type of dressing on top, fritty lettuce for decoration. The gentleman stared at Amity's meal as if it were a monster of sorts, almost fearful./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Uh… You're not actually going to eat that are you?" He asked without once looking away from the monstrosity. The greenette was so ready for the dinner to be done, so she might as well make the most of it./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Amity Blight stuck her fork in the center of the 32-ounce steak, flipping it up suspended in the air held up only by the utensil, and took a mouth full size bite straight out of it. Barbecue drenching the Blights face./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Mouth stuffed, she managed to mumble out "Of course I am, it's delicious." /p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Sighing, the woman had gotten into the shower. "Stop it Amity. You're being a baby. Suck it up…" She told herself, hot water cleaning not only her body but her mind as well. Ever since the businesswoman has been back she hasn't even been able to tolerate looking at herself. Where the self-hatred uprooted from was a mystery. Now she stood in front of the mirror with the outfit her sister talked her into buying, she groaned in displeasure./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Luz, you can't keep this up. I mean fuck, it's only 5:30!"/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Luz looked up, glass still firmly in hand, voice dripping with venom; "And there's a problem with that Juan?" the brunette's eyes radiated her unreasonable pained anger./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""It's been, what, four days since she left? You haven't been sober one night since!"/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Juan and Luz sat in a corner booth of a darkened quiet pub at the very back. Most would say 5:30 at night was way too early to start drinking, but the Latina hadn't really cared. Time didn't mean anything, as she hadn't slept but the first night since her departure. She couldn't… her dreams were haunted by the greenette./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Hn, why should you care." Sneered the criminal, lifting the mug to her face./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Because Luz, you're my friend." Said the white-haired man./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Luz furrowed her brows. "Friend… I don't have friends. They only get in the way of my revenge... You're just a traveling acquaintance." The brunette laughed wickedly. Juan hadn't taken Noceada's words to heart though./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Well, too bad I care about your wellbeing huh?"/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Luz then retaliated, "Well you shouldn't. I don't care for you, or anyone for that matter. So just stop!" Her words may have been empty, but stung something fierce. Antonio sat nearby at the booth, a worried silence visible. Maria had been asking the bartender once more for directions./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"The Criminal team had just made it to a neighboring region yesterday, all disapproving of their leader spending every night at a different bar. They could all see she was hurt, all but herself. Luz insisted nothing was wrong the whole time and drank until furious or passed out./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"By eight that night the club was packed. The criminals had yet to leave, though Luz's state of mind has passed the point of rationality. The group watched the crowds and loners like a predator stalking its prey on the verge of pouncing. All four members were cloaked: their hoods up./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Antonio, go get me another beer." demanded the Noceada, and the orange-haired man hadn't put up an argument as he grabbed the glass./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Antonio approached the server, " Another beer please." the man gave Antonio a disapproving look but gave him the beer nonetheless./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Thank you… Why's this place so packed tonight? is it always this way?" asked the tall man as the bartender filled Luz's glass./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Magnolia and the Boiling Isles have come to a treaty. Two high-end business people are to marry in a week and a half, making this whole area more economically stable."/p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""High-end business people?"/p
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p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Hey, lady! You're gonna have to pay for that!" shouted a regular at the joint, only 15 feet away, playing pool. Luz pulled back her hood and everyone suddenly gasped, whispers heard everywhere. the criminal wandered over and picked up a cue stick./p
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p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""I… uhh... N-nothing!" explained the much larger man in leather apparel that had called her out./p
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p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Amity sighed as she stared in the mirror. " I look ridiculous," she said out loud, studying her features. The greenette wore a pair of pink stilettos and a knee-length mint green dress. the material wrapped around her chest. Her hair was curly with very little make-up done. Primarily just her eyes and lips like her sister suggested. "Well, I guess there's no time to waste."/p
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p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Now inside, she looked at all tables in sight, not sure exactly who she had been looking for. The man at the reception stand who seated everyone tried to ask Amity who she was looking for, but the businesswoman paid no attention to him. she was lost in the articulate wall canvases and lights sprung up at the ceiling trim; the heavenly smell radiating from the kitchen./p
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p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"the woman gasped as she had been caught off guard and spun around. in front of her now stood a man; He had brown hair that flowed just past his shoulders. It was straight and brushed back, his skin was pale white, like the snow, and his eyes were ice-cold pale blue embers. His smile seemed contagious, huge beautiful straight sparkling teeth behind angelic carved light lips. A single small scar between his eyebrows, closer to the beginning of the right one. Robert Bump's build was rather broad-shouldered, arm's well toned. indeed the man was conventionally handsome, but not at all Amity's type, and was no replacement for Luz Noceada.../p
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p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"After having spent. The past 20 minutes. Talking and ordering food. Amity was shocked./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""What do you mean you're not even a businessman?" She asked. "I was the son of a wealthy merchant. I had no need to fight. My servants can do such barbaric things for me. I'm all about the brains of Amity Blight and from what I hear, you're one of the smartest women in the boiling Isles." he grinned./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Yea…" Her mind was elsewhere. This was Amity at her most ladylike after spending a month with a bunch of criminals. Every gesture he made was, well, elegant. Never slept outside or cooked his own meals…/p
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p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""I'm watching my carb intake for the wedding," he explained, as the server sat a heaping large stake with some type of dressing on top, fritty lettuce for decoration. The gentleman stared at Amity's meal as if it were a monster of sorts, almost fearful./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;""Uh… You're not actually going to eat that are you?" He asked without once looking away from the monstrosity. The greenette was so ready for the dinner to be done, so she might as well make the most of it./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Amity Blight stuck her fork in the center of the 32-ounce steak, flipping it up suspended in the air held up only by the utensil, and took a mouth full size bite straight out of it. Barbecue drenching the Blights face./p
p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px; color: #222222;"Mouth stuffed, she managed to mumble out "Of course I am, it's delicious." /p