Not A Purchase I Was Expecting To Make [Luca]

So... this was something new even for Surai.

After her discussion with Irilys though, she understood why she had to do this. Though she'd ask questions out of pure curiosity and not disrespect, she'd still go along with whatever the God would say. He had her loyalty, and that wasn't something she gave out very easily.

Still, having to go out and buy another person was still a very strange thing for her to do.

Yet she'd done it. She'd gone out and bought another living being. It was strange but a necessity. Plus it was undoubtably better that she but this individual rather than anyone else. The very fact she could buy a person... her skin crawled and her visage darkened at the thought. The entire idea of buying and selling people as slaves appalled her. But she'd have to play by those rules for now to get the one her God had sent her to retrieve. So she had.

But she could still despise the fact she could buy another person in the first place anyways.

For now, though, she probably shouldn't show any anger. She hardly thought that was going to be a good emotion to show around someone who probably thought she was going to be some evil person anyways. Hopefully she could dispel that thought fairly quickly. Because, yes, Surai had every intention of getting this poor Magi out of there as soon as humanly possible. Though that didn't mean she wasn't going to help clean him up first.

Once Luca arrived at her home in Camlorn, the woman welcomed him with what she hoped would be received as a warm smile. The whole "buying" (gods she hated that term) process had been a rather odd one, but here he was. Followed by someone to make sure he didn't run during the transfer, but to them Surai offered a more polite than warm smile. "Ah, yes. Thank you very much for escorting him all this way. I can take it from here." Soon after that Surai was pulling Luca into the house, taking care of any other "official" business she had to, and then shutting the door with the other figure staying on the outside.

Oh thank the gods that part was over.

A heavy, relieved sigh left her as she shut and locked the door. Then she turned towards the Magi she'd recently... acquired. "Well... welcome to my home then I suppose." She said. The house Surai lived in was a fairly modest one. Two stories with a little basement, she didn't share it with anyone else so it was decorated mainly to reflect her homeland of Suraja. It was comforting to her, but probably not at all to the man now standing before her. Oh heavens this was going to be interesting alright. For a few moments Surai merely observed her guest and the current state he was in. Her features softened.

"I...Suppose I should introduce myself then. I'm not to sure if anyone's done that already because, well, to be honest I've never done this sort of thing before." She shrugged but gave him a little kind smile. "But my name is Surai. I'd love to talk some more with you but I have a feeling getting you some hot food and a shower would probably be the best thing to do first. Would you be ok with that? I think it would be best to wait some time before letting you go home so that one," There was a gesture made towards her door to indicate the one Luca had come there with. "Doesn't try to snatch you up again." The woman was hoping to take everything slow just not to frighten the man and to see the extent of damage having gone through all... that had done to him. So she was speaking softly and kindly to hopefully not come across as someone who wanted to hurt him. Because she wanted anything but that.

by sixsmith.