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CHAPTER 1
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Zoe-Okaru had been watching this group long enough. She would never
get what she wanted if she didn't act; watching was getting her nothing
more than heat damaged hair as Lina had fireballed nearby. I think their
lives will shortly become much more interesting, she thought to herself as
she planned how she would get that power.
Lina and Gourry had filled their stomachs enough to relax and lean back on their chairs as they waited to be brought more food. Zelgadiss and Amelia had learned to wait until now to even set food on the table, lest they be attacked in the frenzy. A short woman, with teal hair and seemingly endless ripples of long dark blue cloth draped as a robe around her body, slid up to the table, and in a nervous voice, asked, "Ar...Are you Lina Inverse? I, I.. I was supposed to give this to you." The woman gave Lina a small wooden brown box, that was covered with worn and unreadable words engraved in it. Lina looked at the box, then at the woman. There was something off about her, it was partly just that for all of her stammering and her squeaky voice, ahe didn't she any tension, or any emotion at all. She had no inflection in her eyes and no movement in her face. It seemed there was something else though, but Lina dismissed this. Maybe the box was worth something. "Um, thanks? Who are you, and what's with this stupid box?" The woman forcibly tensed up, and replied, "I'm so sorry ma'am, my name is Zoe Arowe, and the explantion, as well as directions to my current house, are inside the box." She pointed out the latches, and stepped back just as the waiter arrived, and would have collided with her. By then, they were all to distracted to notice, or care, that Zoe was gone.
Zoe-Okaru snickered to herself, this would be easy. All she had to do was keep up the messenger act until she lured them into handing her the orbs. She was still laughing as she climbed up the stairs of her tower.
Lina and Gourry had filled their stomachs enough to relax and lean back on their chairs as they waited to be brought more food. Zelgadiss and Amelia had learned to wait until now to even set food on the table, lest they be attacked in the frenzy. A short woman, with teal hair and seemingly endless ripples of long dark blue cloth draped as a robe around her body, slid up to the table, and in a nervous voice, asked, "Ar...Are you Lina Inverse? I, I.. I was supposed to give this to you." The woman gave Lina a small wooden brown box, that was covered with worn and unreadable words engraved in it. Lina looked at the box, then at the woman. There was something off about her, it was partly just that for all of her stammering and her squeaky voice, ahe didn't she any tension, or any emotion at all. She had no inflection in her eyes and no movement in her face. It seemed there was something else though, but Lina dismissed this. Maybe the box was worth something. "Um, thanks? Who are you, and what's with this stupid box?" The woman forcibly tensed up, and replied, "I'm so sorry ma'am, my name is Zoe Arowe, and the explantion, as well as directions to my current house, are inside the box." She pointed out the latches, and stepped back just as the waiter arrived, and would have collided with her. By then, they were all to distracted to notice, or care, that Zoe was gone.
Zoe-Okaru snickered to herself, this would be easy. All she had to do was keep up the messenger act until she lured them into handing her the orbs. She was still laughing as she climbed up the stairs of her tower.