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.Shard 20.
The Mosphoran Highwaste
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The huge Vulture crossed the leaden sky just above Princess Ashe's head, and the violent gust made her wallow on her feet. When she turned to Balthier and Basch, it took her less that one second to notice that something was kind of wrong – more precisely, what was wrong became clearer when Basch pointed a huge gun, hoisting it over his shoulder to the Vulture, while Balthier whispered something in his ear, with Basch's Maragoku in his hands.
Ashe followed the shot whit her eyes: the Vulture disappeared down under the cliff, after a moment of agony and a ghastly lament.
"What are you doing?" she spat harshly, of course looking at Balthier. When she was angry, he was just like a magnet to her.
"Weapon exchange, it was just try. Excellent shot, don't you think?" Balthier replied with satisfied voice, even patting Basch's shoulder.
The knight, on the other hand seemed absorbed by the Ras Algethi. After having shifted the gun a little, to have a better look at it, as soon as he heard the scream of another approaching Vulture, he charged it again, ready for another shot.
But arousing disbelief in the both of them, Ashe removed the gun from his shoulder, an angry and incomprehensibly outraged expression. After that, it was Balthier's turn to get disarmed, even more vehemently.
"Stop with this wrongness! You are you!" she handed the Ras Algethi to Balthier, slightly pushing him backwards, uncaring of the gusts provoked by the flight of the Vulture, and of the first drops of rain. "And you are you" she ended, giving the Maragoku back to Basch, more softly this , she turned and walked away, not wanting to give them any explanation about her actions.
Beside, not that they really were needed.
"That's fine – everyone needs a little bit of comforting cliché, I guess." Balthier said wittingly to Basch, who seemed far more surprised than he was, his gaze following the princess. "I wonder what would she do if I actually acted like a knight, for a time"
"Well - that sounds highly improbable, anyway." Basch smiled.
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Author'sNote: here we arrre. I like this one especially, because it is among the ones which have all the three of them involved and interacting together.. I don't even know how I sould I label it in the summary, I think I will live just Ashe as character ;) Here it's springtime, and I'm bored.. I should go out because it's sunny.. but.. I'm a slacker. someone should kick my ass :D
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