Taliyah stood in a kitchen, with a towel in her hand. "And what now?" She asked.
"You take all the dishes I wash and dry them" A similar-aged girl responded.
"Where do I put them after drying?" Silence. "Elvira?"
"Ah yes, sorry. Just place them all on that table here and we'll sort them afterwards." Elvira pointed to a rather small kitchen table which was made out of stone. Taliyah could feel the stone vibrating a tiny bit through her presence and worried if she could leave the dishes there without any incidents. In the meanwhile, Elvira had already started washing, and when she didn't feel anyone taking the wet silverware she was holding out of her hand, she asked: "Taliyah"
"Oh yes, sorry. I'm here" Taliyah answered and took the silverware to dry it.
They worked for one hour before going to sleep. Taliyah had been given a room right next to Elvira's. Last night, Elvira's father had come to the table where the two girls were sitting after dealing with the other man who didn't have money. The barkeeper, who went by the name Jatt, had agreed to letting Taliyah sleep and eat here after Taliyah told them both a simplified version of her Journey. Of course, she had to work here too, but Taliyah didn't mind. She didn't have anywhere else to go.
"Good morning, Tali..." Elvira said. "Wake up!"
"Mmh..?" Needless to say, Taliyah wasn't very awake.
"Taaliiyaaah..."
"Mmmmh... Yes?"
"Get up! I got a free day from my father to show you around here!"
"Alright... Give me a sec." Taliyah slowly sat up from her lying position and murmured: "But I'm still tired..."
"Come on! I'll get some money from my dad to buy you some decent clothes. At least look awake when I come back!"
Taliyah slowly stood up, wincing as her arm started to sting. She had apparently slept on it. "Dang.." She said and started rubbing it. Her mind switched to her clothes and, wanting to find out how she looked, she started searching for a mirror. She found one and realized that Elviras idea to get her some clothes wasn't such a bad one. Her shirt and pants that were white once turned into a desert-ish yellow. Taliyah sighed and turned around as she heard someone coming up the stairs.
"Taliyah?" She heard Elviras voice calling out her name. "I got some money! Let's go!"
Taliyah genuinely wondered how that girl could be so cheerful that early in the morning. She even managed to get Taliyah kind of presentable in a few minutes time. They left after promising Jatt to be back in a reasonable amount of time.
They went off north, passing by a few bars, but nothing really interesting.
"Where are we going?" Taliyah asked.
"We're going to get you some clothes."
"But where?"
"You'll see in a moment."
Taliyah continued asking, but got no real answer. The two girls started talking about the way Taliyah should behave in Noxus, or, as Elvira said: "How you can get killed here."
Taliyah realized that in Noxus, getting killed was way easier than staying alive. Elvira had been talking for 10 minutes straight about what you shouldn't do in Noxus, starting with being weak to farting in front of the wrong person. After a while, the two girls got to a - for noxian standards - beautiful plaza.
Taliyah stood there, astonished by the sudden beauty in this dark city. The shops were colorful and the people were cheerful and everything was moving and there were magicians doing tricks and you could smell delicious food an-
"Taliyah! For how long do you want to keep standing there?" Elvira laughed.
"Eehm, sorry! It's just so big and happy!"
Ignoring the probably unintended pun Taliyah had said, Elvira chuckled and said: "I know. This is the marketplace where we have to get some food for dad and then we can go and get you some clothes over there" she pointed in a general north direction.
After a while, Taliyah and her friend were loaded with food, and realized that they couldn't go buy any clothes while holding a mountain of food each.
"Elvira?"
"Yes?"
"How about we take the food to Jatt and then go buy clothes?"
"Good idea"
They went home and put the food onto the kitchen. But they didn't leave immediatly. The two girls had spent so much time buying food that it had gotten lunchtime, so they stayed for lunch. After lunch, they had to wash dishes again, and after the dishes they finally left for the clothes.
There weren't as many people in the marketplace then in the morning, but the 'shopping center' as Elvira called it had a lot more people. They still went into a couple of stores, and after a bit of searching, they found some black pants and a yellow-beige-ish shirt. Elvira didn't want to buy it, but Taliyah insisted on it because it reminded her of the desert.
Elvira wanted to search for a lot more, but after a certain comment from Taliyah("Why does the color matter?") she realized she wasn't much the shopping type, so they left the shop and started walking around. Elvira wanted to show Taliyah the city a bit, so they started walking around. As they left the plaza, they started walking to the 'arena', as Elvira said.
"What's the arena?" Taliyah asked.
"You'll see." Was the only answer she got.
"You like keeping secrets, don't you?"
"You'll find out" Elvira said and bursted out in laughter as Taliyah gave her a friendly punch to her back.
"Come on"
"Alright" Elvira said and chuckled "The arena is..."
"..."
"..."
"An arena?" she finished.
"Now that is very helpful, Elvira..." Taliyah sighed, bringing a smile to Elvira's face.
"How should I put it... It's a place where gladiators fight."
"What is a gladiator?"
"Goodness... Look, I'm not good at describing things. How about you wait for two minutes until we're there?"
"Whatever" Taliyah grumbled.
Suddently, a cat walked through her legs and made her fall to the ground. She hit her nose so hard it started bleeding, and she could hear Elvira calling out for her: "Taliyah?! Are you all right?" Her voice was high-pitched and worrysome. Then she felt a hand on her back.
"She's gonna be alright." A deep, male voice said. "Come on, take her to my house."
Taliyah managed to stand up with help from Elvira and the started walking after the man. Elvira gave her an insecure, but also a worrying look. You could see from her face that she would rather not go to that man's house. Taliyah just managed to say: "It's going to be alright" before she had to hold her nose again so it didn't bleed.
They arrived at a building which was rather big to be a house. When they entered, Taliyah and Elvira were relieved. This building was not a house, but a surgery. They walked past by a few empty rooms before arriving at one which had the imprint 'room 08' on the door. Apparently, it was a treatment room. The unknown man led them inside and told Taliyah to lie down on a weird bed. He left the room and came back in an instant with some weird tools. For Taliyah, everything was weird here, specially because the room was neat and clean, something she had not seen in this Noxus.
"Alright. Let me check your nose." The man said and started inspecting her nose. After a while, he stood up from his sitting position and said "Good. I'm glad you proved my assumptions wrong by not breaking your nose. Just make sure you don't fall on your nose again." He led the two girls out and shook hands with Elvira. Taliyah was too busy holding her nose.
"Don't we have to pay you?"
"Take this as a gift" the man said and smiled. "Goodbye"
"Goodbye, mister ..?"
"Durand. Clarke Durand."