<hr/><strong>Name:</strong>Lilah 'Li-Li' Oliver (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=200832.msg9813377#msg9813377)<br/><strong>Faction:</strong>Whippersnappers<br/><strong>Date:</strong>5 June, 1870<br/><strong>Time of Day:</strong>afternoon<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Soddom<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Jack<br/><hr/>She felt like she was going to burst as they stepped out onto the street and there was a strange little hop to her step that belied her excitement, as if she couldn't be contained just walking. Gomorra felt like a whole new place walking with Jack, everything looked and felt a little different even though the streets had been her home most of her life and there wasn't an inch of them she wasn't familiar with. She hadn't liked admitting she couldn't write even though lots of people couldn't but he even made that ok and didn't laugh at her or look down on her because of it. An image of what would be happening to her right now if Jack hadn't stepped in flashed through her head and she resolved that other than the food and a few buttons, she wouldn't take any of the reward money even if he offered -- she was in his debt already. She frowned slightly at his question.<br/><br/>"I stay lotsa places. Depends on if it's hot or cold or dry or wet.  I got lotsa places 'round town to hole up," she assured him. She didn't have anything of her own to brag on so she felt like she needed to talk up the one thing she had, she her cleverness. "In fact the other whippersnappers are always stealin' my spots 'cause they're the best."<br/><br/>What he said next stopped her in her tracks. Sometimes you could want something so bad that it breaks your heart when you don't get it and just the wanting it felt like it was going make you fall to pieces. That's what this was like -- offered so casually, she recognized his offer for the lifeline it was and maybe the only way out of the future everybody in town was so sure was in store for her. She'd hadn't cried in a very long time and suddenly she knew she just might bust out bawling right now if she tried to speak so she stayed silent not to risk the embarrassment until she realized he might take her silence for disinterest. That had her scurrying for words.<br/><br/>"I'd be right pleased to get outta town and I ain't afraid of no maze dragon! Plenty of scary things right here in Gomorra I say," she said. It was dangling out there now and could easily be snatched back so she kept talking. "I admit, I'm pretty nigh useless right now but I learn fast. I can learn me to cook and even do the sewin' and anythin' else that needs doin'. I ain't afraid to work and I don't eat much. Just think, you'd have somebody lookin' after camp for ya and you can just keep on the minin' and how can you not strike it big?"<br/><br/>It didn't matter to her if she never got a coin. Food in her belly, someone to talk to, a place away from men who had too many looks for her...what he was describing sounded like heaven despite the maze dragons and lean times and all the work hard that would be necessary, and her dark eyes silently pleaded with him not to take it away.<br/>