((holy crap, sorry for that delay. I guess wedding season is in full swing now, lol. I've had to make so many cakes this week. Let me know if you need anything added or changed!))<br/><br/>This town was like so many others. It had the same inn, the same little teahouse, the same general store and the same frightened townsfolk. In fact, Etsuni was beginning to wonder if the Earth Kingdom actually had any other towns. They all seemed to be this same village, just altered a little and copied from place to place. As always on nice days, the slender young woman bought her breakfast from the innkeeper (His name was Lee, wasn't the last village run by a Lee too?). She walked along the dusty main road for a while before deciding to go eat in the park on the eastern edge of town. There were rarely any people there, so she liked it.<br/>Etsuni wasn't unfriendly, but after leaving home she had noticed that most people didn't trust her. She was taller than most people she met and didn't have nearly their bulk. Her hair was different too, a wavy mass of dark brown instead of the usual straight black. It probably didn't help that she carried her sword with her, too. A stranger with a sword on her hip wasn't exactly welcome these days. So, Etsuni had developed a habit of moving on from towns fairly quickly. She would get whatever work she could, then leave once the job was done. It kept people from asking too many questions that she couldn't answer.<br/>This town had a week or so left, she figured. The farmers were nervous about market days, so she had been acting as a guard for many of them. They seemed grateful and were nice enough to leave her alone.