Shopping Blindly (closed)

[Valeria]

Rima

It started out innocently enough. Today was Valeria's day off, and a friend approached her saying it was an emergency. He had some ingredients that he that he needed for something he was planning to cook, but something had just come up that required him to leave for a few hours. Apparently, he wouldn't have enough time to buy everything and cook the food, so he was understandably stuck. Were it not for the fact that he needed these things by the end of the day, he'd simply do the shopping later. So instead, he had no choice but to ask someone to get them for him.

So why did Valeria look like she wanted to choke someone? Because he handed her a rather long list of somewhat exotic ingredients, then took off without another word. Aside the fact that Valeria had never even heard of half the things on this list, there was also the minor issue that she doesn't know how to read. She knew some basic words. But that alone wasn't enough to get her through this. She recognized the word "milk", but the item on the list was goat milk, and she wasn't familiar with the first word. She tried asking someone to read the list for her, but all they did was laugh at the fact that she was illiterate. Real charming.

Thus, here she was. After a bit more asking around, she found a market that apparently had all of the items she was looking for, but she still had no idea what she was looking for, and she was already sick of getting laughed at for not being able to read. With no other options, she tried using what very little she knew about how to read to try and figure out what the items on the list were. "...okay...let's see...d...duu...ck...duck?...I think that's what that says...but...what's this other word?...li...crap, I forget what sound that letter makes..." Welp, so much for that. Not even two words in, and she was already completely stumped. Maybe she really should swallow her pride and ask someone else. As much as she hated this, she still didn't want to let her friend down.

It would take a miracle to convince her not to try and murder said friend in his sleep, but that was a bridge she'd cross when she came to it. For now, she just wanted to get this over with before the urge to break everything within her line of sight became even stronger than it already was.

[Rima]

Rima was in a bouncy mood today. She had managed to convince Balthazar to take her to a market, and that meant that she was in a good mood, running ahead a few times in her eagerness to get to the market before the taguel huffed and took her hand in his own to tether her to him. The mage was still excited, of course, but at least now she was more manageable, pointing out things in the market even as she stayed close to his side. If anyone thought anything of the pair - one a large man with a frightening mask and a sword strapped to his back and the other a small woman who almost seemed more like a child tucked up in her cloak - they didn't say a word.

She let out a soft squeal at his side, tugging on his arm. "Balthy, Balthy look," she cried, already making use of the nickname she'd given him as she tried to hurry him along. "They have honeycomb! I wanna try some!" She huffed when she reached the end of her metaphorical leash, turning with her most fetching pout on her face. "Please Balthy?" she asked, her cerulean eyes big since she knew that she wasn't nearly strong enough to yank herself free from the taguel; not that she wanted to, of course, she was quite happy to stay with him, but she wanted the treat badly enough to have to concentrate on not practically vibrating in place with her eagerness. "I really do like honey. It's really sweet and I've not had any in a really long time."

Right as she was about to continue arguing her point, she heard someone nearby struggling, and if she'd been a taguel like her companion, her ears would have pricked right up with interest. That sounded like... "Reading!" the woman squealed, wheeling around and somehow managing to tug the unsuspecting taguel with her over to the person who was needing help. "Ooooh, do you need me to help read that for you?" she asked innocently, not seeming to realize that she was probably insulting the person who held the list. "I'm a really good reader! I'm a mage, so I have to be!"

Words. -- Tags. Balthazar, Valeria Notes. Rima has the attention span of a goldfish. Silly girl. This is why she needs Balthy to keep her in line