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He heard someone say his name, faint, almost as if the wind itself had spoken it. Fran had thrown a warning his way that someone had spotted him. Acknowledging with a slight nod he turned and saw a girl. Dressed in strange clothing he had studied her for a brief second before looking into her eyes. Deep and dark they seemed to stare as if she knew him. Slightly unnerved he turned and disappeared back into the wind that carried the sound

After shopping Penelo had run off to go watch Migelo's shop Vaan and me and gone back down to lowtown. There was one place where the sun streamed down and fresh water ran down which had let vibrantly green plants and even a few flowers spring up. I was lying on Vaans lap when he got up. I watched him intent on getting my comfy headrest back. He walked over to a bunch of beautiful purple flowers and plucked a single lush flower. Walking over to me he slid it behind my ear.

"There, the purple looks beautiful with your eyes"

I decided right then that I would follow him to the palace. I might have only known him a day but he was kind and I wanted to protect him the best I could.

"Hey Vaan"

"Yea Ells"

"…I heard you planning a raid on the treasure vault"

I knew it was an abrupt way to break my knowledge of his plans but I figured Vaan is blunt and well kinda stupid too so he would only get the hint if I broke it blunt.

"Ho- how did you know about that?"

"I'm not stupid I heard you talking while I was recovering, don't worry I'm not going to rat you out, I want in on it"

"I'm not sure, it's going to be dangerous and I just don't know"

"If you don't let me I'll give you a nipple cripple then tell Penelo"

"OK OK fine jeez…..I should probably teach you some magic and fighting skills then"

As Vaan muttered away about logistics and skill points I was thinking about how I was going to get past this next plot advancement. Sure I had fired a gun with my daddy and I had attacked things with my fists but I had never wielded a weapon before in my life with the intention of actually killing something. This was going to be a very scary next day.

"No you thrust like this Ellie!" Vaan cried out sounding exasperated

I was currently down in the Garymsyth Waterways killing rats, bats and any other nasties which had the bad luck to cross my path. While Vaan was getting fed up training me, he kept telling me I was improving which I was not to toot my own horn.

"Vaan I have been practising for at least 2 hours can't we continue on? The palace isn't far"

"Ok but if you die don't ask me for help"

I looked over at his smiling face and slapped him gently.

"HEY what was that for" Vaan yelped, rubbing his sore cheek.

"Don't be such a baby I was just reminding you to be nice." I giggled

"Ok well you've pretty much mastered the basic moves so we should be cool for now" Vaan said

In the game I took me about 10 minutes to get to the palace, find the signet and get to the treasure room. With Vaan getting lost and me yelling at him it took over an hour. Finally we reached the entrance and we slipped in inconspicuously. Finally we had located the correct signet and we were crawling into the treasure room.

"Oh yes we found it!" Vaan exclaimed with fist pump in the air

"Oh my god it's so beautiful!" I breathed

The whole room was filled with gold and I mean FILLED statures of golden idols graced the walls while jewellery was enclosed in glass boxes. Precious stones pilled in the corner casting a disco ball array of colours onto my skin. Whilst Vaan was pawing over various objects one tiny silver chain caught my eye. A tiny black pearl with delicate silver embroidering graced the chain. Fascinated I picked it up and clasped it into place. Hearing a click and the gasp of Vaan's awe I turned and saw he was holding the magicite which meant OH MY GOD…..

"Quite a performance."

I turned on my heel and my mouth shot open.