Rina walked around the capital with amazement, she had never experienced so many people compacted into such a small place, everything was different, from the smells to the sights. All around there was the loud chatter of passers-by and the horrid stench of animal...leavings, were both rather noticeable. However there was an upside, every now and then she'd hear something rather interesting about 'so and so' or catch a whiff of a freshly made edible. If forced to describe such a scene as this she would chose the words "Organised madness." But would mean them in the fondest of ways possible, for the capital was supposed to be booming at practically all hours of the day. All around Elves and Humans roaming the streets, though the former were wearing far nicer clothes than the latter, as it should be.<br/><br/>Everything was amazing. She didn't live that far away from this place, and her small Mini-Elf town had always rather busy, but never to this scale and degree. Surely a place like this simply couldn't function without the guards, though these guards were not likely to be nearly as friendly as the ones in her town, they seemed rather arrogant...and rather angry, at all times.  Taking her mind off of that, she spotted a large group of particularly poor-looking children running down the street, it wasn't uncommon, just that so many children seemed out of place in a place so, centred, around commerce and trade.<br/><br/>"Wow." She muttered, looking at one of the far larger and grander buildings, though she assured herself that only the very rich would own something so grand and lustrous. It was at that moment when an aged Elf woman walked over to her and said. "My, what's a child like you doing in a place like this? Surely your parents must be around here somewhere." Judging by her face, the woman was very old, though she wasn't showing any sign of ill intent. Rina answered her with a sweet and child-like voice. "Mommy and daddy are buying food." Now, while Rina herself was a mature Mini-Elf, she still took great delight in fooling people with her looks and lack of height, though her put-on voices tended to help.<br/><br/>Unknown to the mischievous Elf, the old Woman's child had taken the rather small bag of coins she kept in one of her belt's pouches, and run off. Likely to wait for the woman and give the coins to her. Luckily he hadn't grabbed all her coins, and she still had enough for a day or two's rent at an inn. Now with a happier tone, the Elder answered. "Well, you take care now." Before wandering off. Rina had felt rather odd about the whole ordeal, while she was mistaken for a child every single day, there was something...off putting about the way the woman spoke, and how she stood. So strange was the feeling that Rina checked the pouches upon her belt...<br/><br/>A rather loud, if high pitched, "No!" could be heard a few moments after when she discovered what she had lost. Though, there was the redeeming factor that she had enough for a room. She saw a man on the bustling square, who was just staring at the kids she had seen earlier, she hadn't realised it, but she was staring...not out of 'true love' mind you, more just thinking about how stupid she had been just then. Perhaps the capital wasn't all it was made out to be...<br/><br/>-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Lierin has been exploring the captial with mixed emotions. On the one hand she quite liked the grand sights of these buildings the land-walkers built, but on the other she hated to thin how much water the city corrupted every day. Making it worse was that near on everyone was giving her rather odd looks, some frightened, some curious. She didn't understand it really, so she just counted it as a land-walker way of saying 'you're odd.' Why, she had even tried to smile at one of the younger land-walkers...an event which had ended with the child running off sobbing screaming something akin to "The monster is going to get me!" Amidst it's tears.<br/><br/>She really didn't understand it all, and she wasn't interested in learning most of it. She was here to see the sights of this land-walker 'capital.' So far, she didn't exactly like it all too much, especially compared to her own people's cities. Sighing, she noted that she probably should have brought a flask of water, or perhaps a whole bucket. For the dryness of the air was something that she wasn't exactly accustomed to, at least, not yet. And an act such as hydrating herself would probably be seen as 'weird' by the land-walkers.<br/><br/>Walking to one of the busier parts, a square, she heard a rather loud shout sounding like. "And stay out!" It was clearly a land-Elf's voice, and he appeared to be adressing a Human male, that was dressed in a rag-tag mix of robes, mixed with metal and leather armoured plates. He looked rather odd, to say the least about him, though she reckoned that the man has caused trouble of some sorts, and the Elf man was just stopping him from causing any more in his tavern. She briefly thought about walking up to him and asking what was wrong, but she really didn't want a re-enactment of the child calling her a monster and running off. But he was older than the child.<br/><br/>"No." She chided herself, she needed to remember that these people were not as accustomed to seeing aquatic Elves as she would have liked. Though, she did also spot a small female Land-Elf child staring a man, who in turn was staring at a band of Land-walker children. She was almost lost in thought when a land walker child walked up to her, and asked. "Please...miss? We're starving, can we have single iron piece, please?" The apparent leader, was a Human child, he seemed fairly confident that Lierin wasn't going to maul him, or otherwise murder him. Something that made Lierin herself feel fairly happy. Taking out a small hide bag of iron coins-what she had gotten for a rather large crab she had hunted and killed. She picked on out and went to hand it to the child. He lashed out, grabbing the bag from her scaled hands, before he and his group of two ran. But not before yelling. "Freak!" At the top of their lungs.<br/><br/>Lierin was now completely without money, and rather pissed off. She found a spot of ground in the square and sat down. She really wanted to scream something rather horrid at the children and their land-walker kin, but she assumed that it would cause quite some panic. So instead she merely sat and looked at the two people who were staring at different things.<br/><br/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><br/>Jonathan sat inside a tavern, squandering his hard-earned money upon booze, but he was happy for the most part. Even if the establishment was run by an Elf, and a rather irritating one at that. He had gotten especially hostile when Jonathan had commented that a different kind of drink "Tasted like watered down crap." As to be expected the Elf got rather annoyed, and had warned him that he would have the Human thrown out if he did something like that again. So what did Jonathan do? He did it again. And even laughed in the Elf's face, to prove just how happy he was at defying him... Oh course he got kicked out for it.<br/><br/>"And stay out!" The Elf had yelled, his face having gone redder than a tomato. Jonathan had obliged and left, for, he was far taller and stronger than the Elf, but he wasn't one to get himself sent to jail...at least not without good reason. Though he had been certain to swipe his bottle of whisky he had been drinking before being kicked out. He most certainly wasn't going to lose that amount of money due to an Elf.<br/><br/>Outside was bustling to say the very least, but he was midly accustomed to it, his town had forever been locked in a state of high activity, yet still, never to a degree such as this. People were everywhere, as were their animals and goods, all of them waiting for that crucial sale that would mean they could buy food for that night. But still, John merely didn't care. He was a working man, and had worked all his life, he was used to seeing such high levels of activity...but never quite the stench of it, for animal refuse lay quite heavily in some areas. Looking towards the square, he noticed a woman with...blue skin?! When did that happen?! Needless to say he was intrigued and curious, but by the looks of it, she was giving some beggars some money, though he assumed the kids were fairly scared of her...something that came apparent when they ran off with her money and called her something.<br/><br/>"Well, another victim of the beggars." He said with slight humour, while being robbed was never fun, he always took note to laugh a little when it happened. Taking a sip of his drink, he was tapped on the shoulder by a Human man of similar age. Who said to John. "Eh, crazy blue cow walked into that one, didn't she!" He has a rather large smile upon his face, apparently he had also found the beggars to be rather amusing at times. Though John himself wasn't bothered about being robbed, currently he had very little in the way of money on him, and he certainly wasn't working for a few days, this was his time off...And he was indeed being robbed...<br/><br/>He hadn't noticed, but a small scrawny beggar had completely cut a pouch off his belt! ...And taken the money from it, before running off. John may have not even noticed were it not for the man next to him, pointing at the beggar and saying. "Fate's rather cruel, ain't it?" This warranted nothing from john...other than a punch to the jaw, before walking off towards the main area of the square.