Sharing is Caring [Mana]

[Buse]

Irkalla hadn't yet gotten the hang of capitalism, but she was getting there. And as much as robberies were fun and action-filled, sometimes she just wanted to eat something without having to punch out half a dozen people. Thankfully, she had a lot of money to spare thanks to other previous... investments. And it was good that she had, because oh boy, did the girl eat. She picked at least five of every single sweet available on the bakery, from donuts to chocolate bars to cakes. Not only that, but she grabbed every single filled donut available, before checking out and paying for everything with cash.

She ignored the looks she got from everyone. Or at least pretended to, but it was pretty obvious that some people were angry that she had taken all filled donuts, some people were intrigued that she was buying so much, and some were impressed that she was able to pay for all that, considering that was a pretty high-class bakery, and her visible clothes didn't amount to more than a zipped up black hoodie, jeans and black converse, not to count that her physical appearance was... weird in every way. The facial tattoos and horns were also the cause of many suspicious stares, but she had gotten used to those by now. On that moment specifically, she wasn't in a mood to fight anyone, just to eat.

She checked out everything, paying in cash without really paying attention to the value. Money wasn't really a problem for her, she had plenty, and if she ran out of it, she was strong enough to get more easily. Life on that planet was fairly easy, all things considered... her musings were interrupted by the cashier asking if she wanted help carrying it to her car, which Irkalla, of course, refused. First because she didn't have a car, second because while it would probably take roughly four adult men to carry all that, her advanced strength and dexterity allowed her to pile it all up and carry it all by herself without too much trouble. She could probably carry it in only one arm if she wanted, but there really was no need for that. Without any other word, she left the bakery, beginning the long walk home.

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Sarah felt starved, it had been over a day since she last ate and she was hungry, like REALLY hungry, this lead to her wandering the shopping district looking for something, really anything to fill her tummy.

Her gaze evenually fell upon one indavidual, carrying quite a large load themselves, all of which seemed to be sweets! this peeked Sarah's sweet tooth in an instant and she coudn't help but wonder, could the person part with a few? maybe even one? She really didn't want to hurt more people for her next meal... she hated that. So Sarah walked behind the person towered high with sweets, and tapped the only part of the body she could see, the person's shoulder.

"Umm exuse me... I know this is probaly sudden but.. could you maybe spare a sweet or two? its just... you have so many there..."

Sarah muttered, rubbing her belly out of instict.

Geez this was a longshot.

[Buse]

All things considered, the amount of things Irkalla was carrying, she probably was a comic sight, a number of grocery bags filled with sweets hiding her face. Of course, she'd be even funnier if she waddled like a cartoon character who was carrying too much weight, but she walked at a perfectly normal pace, creating the vision of a bunch of paper bags with legs walking around.

And then someone tapped on her shoulder, talking to her. A girl. Irkalla heard it, she had heard every single word too well. She wanted a sweet, not any sweet, but one of HER sweets. Of course, it had been incredibly easy to get them, since money wasn't a problem and even getting money in this world was incredibly simple, but still, the sweets were hers. If anyone wanted a sweet, that person should buy it themselves, not ask for hers! That was an outrage. She would have to give the person a good scare for that, at least.

"Excuse me?"

She turned her towards the girl that tapped her shoulder, finding... well, a girl. She was about her height, which was a welcome change from the crazy amount of people taller than her. Her eyes and hair had similar colors, both being pretty shades of red. Wait, pretty? No, no. She meant "inferior" shades of red. There was no beauty to humans, she had to keep reminding herself of that. Weak, lesser creatures. Aside from that, she looked... hungry. Not that "hungry" was a thing that changed your appearance radically, but it was pretty clear that she was hungry, judging by her... no, no, no! Focus. Irkalla reminded herself of her original intentions, and reassured her own plan of giving the person a scare. With a curt tone and a severe glare, she formed a question.

"What you said?"

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Intresting

That was the only word that came to mind when gazing upon this.. woman? appeared femine anyway but... she didn't appear to be of the human species so how was she to tell?

In any case he or she or whatever was glaring was that a no? she could just say so! but with words like 'Exuse me' and 'what you said' she ether didn't understand, or didn't want to hear.

Sarah decided to hope for the former, how else was she to nurture her sweet tooth?


"I asked if I could have a sweet mam"

Oh sure Sarah, go for the lady-like answer, that would help, not
It was just sweets thiugh, she had plenty enough that she shoudn't uppity about it, to Sarah she was rather lucky to have such forturne to afford that amount of food.

"Just one..... bellies pretty empty is all.... I didn't mean to be of offense or anything"

The redhead continued to rub her belly as she stood before this being, she wasn't bothered by apperence, mostly cause she was to concerned with hunger.

[Buse]

Irkalla frowned as the girl decided to stand her ground, though she was surprised at the same time. Ma'am... the girl was polite. Irkalla didn't know too much about human social norms, but she could tell at least that that was the most polite anyone had ever been to her. Not that it wasn't called for, after all, she was in an inferior position, asking for favors, but still, technically everyone else was in an inferior position to her. The girl just recognized that fact.

"Hm. You are polite, at least."

She kept glaring at the girl, though with a bit less severity now. Meanwhile, she subtly studied her surroundings at the corner of her eyes. The street was fairly empty, with one or other passerby, but none of them seemed to pay too much attention to the two girls. Or at least, that was what she could see while not making it obvious she was looking around. The girl continued to talk, asking for only one sweet, excusing herself once again. Once again, Irkalla couldn't help but remember that, until that moment, that was the politest anyone had been to her. Her frown got smaller as she answered the girl.

"You were not off... I mean, you were... no, no, I mean..." She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, looking back at the girl to continue. "Nothing coming from a human like you could offend me no matter how hard you tried."

Irkalla continued to look the girl straight in the eyes, studying her. She didn't seem to mind the fact that the alien had horns, a tattooed face and a scar over her eye, which was... also something new. Her memories quickly reminded her of what happened the last time she lowered her guard to someone polite, though, and the plan of intimidating the girl to the other side of town went back in motion. She glared at the girl again, though still achieving a lot less severity than she had few seconds ago.

"Why do you think I should give you a sweet?"

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"Oh! its nice to know I can't offend you then, that's good"

She said with a smal smile, the girl was still glaring at her, but it seemed of a weaker effect, ir to be more specific, her glare didn't have ad much of a presense as before.

Hmmm.... then Sarah was right, by the way the other woman spoke to her it was clear she wasn't a human, though what did that make her? the thoughts swam on Sarah's head, it intriged her, and if she wasn't so needing of the food right now, she might have asked her of her race.

But she did pose a good question
why should the woman have to feed her? she knew it was a far off chance but... she had hoped the horned one would have been able spare one.... but she should have known better really, there was no need for this woman to spare food for her, a complete stranger.

"Yeah your right... sorry I asked"

She muttered with a small frown, before turning her gaze back upon her, she was really intresting, intriging and well.... what was it? Sarah coudn't really place the feeling, she just looked nice to her.

"I don't mean to sound rude but... ummm.... I like your horns"

[Buse]

The girl was smiling back at her. What was going on in her mind? Couldn't she see Irkalla wasn't pleased with her interruption? Or... was she? The warrior honestly didn't know anymore, though she couldn't admit that. It couldn't take just a lowly human to shake her like that! She was a proud Aesir warrior! A force to be reckoned with, able to strike fear in the heart of her foes! Except... in that girl. She could, but in a quick backup plan, she decided not to, instead she'd take the first chance she got to walk away and forget all that. And voilá, the girl gave her just that, recognizing she shouldn't get any candy and apologizing for asking.

"See? There you go."

She turned to walk away, and was about to take her first step when the girl said something that made her freeze. Something she never expected that would come from that human... or from any living being in the universe, for that matter. A compliment. She felt the blood rushing to her face, and the warmth told her it stood there. She spent long seconds without moving, part because she had no idea what to do, part because she literally couldn't move, frozen by the words, her mind still trying to process it. What should she do? Dropping everything and running away was an option, but she couldn't do that. She might look like a coward or something else. After realizing she could move again, she turned to the girl, her faced still flushing a bright red.

"Um... I... you're... uh..."

She fumbled with words, with no idea what to say, her grasp of the english language suddenly becoming much weaker. She had been trained to fight many different enemies, to deal with various situations of pressure, but that was something completely new. She looked at the ground, then around her, then at the girl, then around her again, then back at the ground until her eyes stopped at the bags she was carrying. Passing part of the bags to the other arm, and balancing the rest on her lifted leg, she slipped a hand inside one of the bags, giving a blueberry bagel to the girl before grabbing the bags again and starting to walk away, muttering a few rushed words.

"Thanksdon'tfollowme."

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Sarah was confused, the woman's words... seemed clumzy but more than that Sarah was put off by the look on her face, that red tint... was the woman tired? Was that problem? Despite her earlier words the alien girl proceeded... to give ger a bagel? but... why? The red head cradled the bagle on one hand, the confusion kept building... did she or didn't she want to talk... it was weird.

"Wait umm hey... are you ok....?

Sarah tried to say, but the woman was already walking away, it was so odd to her, the woman must dislike talking... that could be it, or maybe she was tired? there was the read tint in her face after all... she should stop her right? that.... seemed like a good thing to do to her but... she asked Sarah not to follow her, But her interference was better than the woman passing out from exaustion right?

Sarah followed after her, despite earlier protest, tapping her shoulder, the bagel still cradled in her other hand.

"Are.... are you ok mrs...?

[Buse]

The girl tried to talk to her, but Irkalla ignored her and just walked. Ok, that had gone completely and incredibly wrong. She'd get home, sit down, stuff her face full of sweets and try to figure out what had just happened. The girl... how? How was it possible that with a few words, a mere human could put her in that state? That was wrong. Her face was flushing red, her hearts were beating fast and she was breathing harder than usual.

Of course, nothing was too bad that it couldn't get worse, and she jumped and screamed, dropping a few bags and letting out a noise she'd never admit to when the girl tapped on her shoulder. She turned quickly, walking backwards answering the girl quickly.

"Oh no no I'm fine reallAH!"

However, her answer was interrupted by her slipping on one of the bags she had dropped and falling on her butt, droping the rest of her bags and ending up covered in donuts. That whole smooth sequence of movements managed to make her even more nervous, flushing an incredibly bright red.

"I-I-I'm good, I mean, no, I-I mean, I'm fine! I, you, I don't um... I'm... I-I'm fine!"

She stuttered, dragging herself back a little. Oh, boy, that was going downhill FAST.

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Oh geez... she hadn't mean't to startle her.... Sarah thought that the alien woman would have at least been alert to her following.... shr must have read to much fiction on aliens... oh well.

"I... I'm so sorry!"

Sarah spouted and, despite her insitence that she was fine made a reach to start take the donuts covering her body, carefully replacing each of the little treasures and replacing them in the bag, had she hurt another person? all... all she wanted was to help... she... was a monster, a weapon.... no matter what she tried to change...

Sarah frowned as she picked the last donut from her body, placing it in her bag, with a sigh she fiddled with her fingers breafly and shaking her head.

"I.... won't bother you anymore, I'm sorry"

[Buse]

Irkalla closed her eyes as she cursed herself. WHY hadn't she paid attention to the girl following her? She had been trained to know when she was being followed, it was almost second nature to her. Then how come she didn't even think about it this time? Had she really been so nervous that someone following her didn't even cross her mind? That was inconceivable. She'd have to figure out a way around this sort of thing later, or she'd end up dead fast. Of course, as previously stated, nothing is so bad that it can't get worse, and however nervous the running warrior was, she was now even more, since the girl started apologizing and picking up the donuts that were on her body. Did the human girl have no sense of decency? The last... ok, the only times anyone's hands had ever been that close to Irkalla, they were trying to punch her, which definitely wasn't the case here.

After the girl bagged the third donut, Irkalla gave up on trying to save the sweet miracles of mankind and maintain her dignity instead, quickly sitting up straight and letting a few donuts roll to the ground, managing to save a couple and place them in the same bag the girl was using. The alien tried to figure out something to say, but no words came out... at least until the girl apologized and said she wouldn't bother her anymore.

"N-no!"

Irkalla interrupted her, reaching out with her hand. Sure, she wasn't known for being the most rational being there was, and often followed her instincts instead of reason, but this time she had no idea why her instincts told her to do that.

"I-it's not a bother, really! I um... I... it's, it's alright! I, I can um... buy more or... it's... um... I, I f-forgive you!"

For some weird reason, her gut told her not to let the girl go. Was that a bad decision? Probably, but Irkalla wasn't thinking about that at the moment.

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...... The womans logic confused her, she wanted Sarah to leave and then she didn't.... coudn't she make up her mind...? Sarah herself didn't mind the company, she found the alien girl throughly intresting but.... but the alien's opion confused her, she wanted to leave but now she wanted her to stay.....?

One statement froze sarah's thoughts, made her heart get all... warm, She wasn't really sure if that was a good or a bad thing, her eyes fell on the girls outstretched hand her words... the alien girl said she had forgiven her... Was that ok for her to do though? really.... was it even possible to forgive a weapon like her...? but maybe... it was worth a try?

Sarah inched her hand towards the other womans slowly, as if awaiting rejection, in the end attemtping to hold there hands together.

"Ok... I guess if you want me around... I can defently stay!"

Sarah let a small smile grace her face, maybe.... this could still end well.... after all, she coudn't be a weapon if she had friends right? weapons coudn't form bonds... right?

[Buse]

Irkalla watched as the girl stopped dead in her tracks, freezing. Had she acted too strangely? All things considered, she hadn's studied human customs too much, maybe she had made a mistake, said something wrong, or anything of the sort. Then again, she had no idea why she was worrying about that at that point... she wasn't meant to reach out to humans like that, in any case. All in all, given time, all of them would be doomed... why was that girl any different? What could she possibly have, how could she get the warrior, the proud, brave warrior, so nervous and confused? It was scary, in a way, not because it felt dangerous, but simply because it was completely unknown.

And it was probably the unease of doubt that made Irkalla flinch as the girl slowly moved her hand closer to hers. Shivers ran down her spine as she looked away and almost brought her arm back by reflex, but stopped herself in time to keep reaching out, waiting patiently for whatever was about to happen. And slowly but surely, their hands intertwined, sending a chill down Irkalla's spine as the alien was once again rendered unable of speech. That was definitely more non-violent physical contact she ever had her entire life. Though the feeling was slightly familiar, and with a short jolt of pain, she remembered from where.

She knew it was the memory that triggered the pain, not the other way around. She also knew the pain was merely an illusion made by her own mind and not exactly real, but none of those things stopped her free hand from going to her left eye, covering it as she felt an uncomfortable burning sensation in her scar. A small, frustrating reminder of what awaited down the path of weakness she once followed and was probably about to follow again. It took her a few seconds to realize she was still holding the girl's hand, with a bit more strength than previously, probably an automatic muscular answer to the pain, or so she told herself. Her grip wasn't strong enough to hurt, but could definitely send the wrong message... or the right one, depending on your point of view. The horned girl reacted quickly, letting go of the girl's hand in an almost startled motion.

"O-oh, I um... I didn't..."

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Weapons are objects Sarah

And the alien girls grip got stronger

Without a use..... your nothing

And then she let go, rejection.....

Without use.. they should be tossed away

Though the other womans words were hesitent , Sarah felt it, her hand went up to a scar and eye.

A weapons use is to destroy daughter

She was causing pain, even when she tried to help, that's what weapons do... what she did? Sarah didn't know anymore...... yet the proof was before her eyes.

With a shivering hand Sarah tried to form words, but what words could help right now?

"I'm sorry..... So sorry......."


OOC:the i coded (can't remeb the words for it) words are memories of her moms words in her head

[Buse]

"No! Don't be sorry!"

Irkalla snapped at the girl, maybe a bit more harshly than planned. She hesitated for a while, but quickly moved her left hand away from the scar to grab the girl's hand with it. She took a deep breath, organizing her ideas before talking again, still holding the girl's hand.

"My wounds, my pains, my past, those are my burden to bear. None of that is your fault, so please, do not a... apollo... apple... do not feel sorry."

The horned girl then got up, still holding the girl's hand, half to help her up as well, half for some other unknown reason. In her eyes, there was a mix of sorrow and regret, and her mouth was formed into a light frown. She waited another few seconds before continuing, calmly.

"My mistakes are mine and mine alone. Do not suffer for others... I've seen many die for doing that."

She lowered her hand a bit, still holding the human's hand. She kept looking at the girl's eyes for a while, silently studying her, while trying to decide her own course of action. The stare lasted a number of seconds, when she finally decided on what to do, calmly asking the girl yet another question.

"Are you... hungry?"