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Jasmine and Giulia
Jasmine doesn't look at the guards. SHe looks down being protective. "I know." She whispered back to her sister wondering why it's like this.
Asha looks up around them as they move into the poorer part of the city, with thin homes and empty streets.
Jasmine keeps walking not really looking up.
"Focus on the knock." Lucas tells them, tapping three times on a door, then another two before it opens up and he slips in. Asha follows unsurely.
Jasmine tries to memorize the pattern of the knock. She goes in with her sister.
The house is dark and small. Lucas then begins to climb stairs. Asha trails him, watching the uneven steps carefully. "Watch out." she warns Jasmine.
Jasmine nods and watches as she walks over the uneven steps.
Finally, Lucas opens up a trapdoor above the staircase and walks into the attic, which is bright and lively with other people, discussing and laughing. Asha follows after, curious and puzzled by the sight.
Jasmine gets a little nervous she follows her sister in side.
Everyone stops what they are doing and stares at the newcomers. "These are friends and fugitives. They have nothing." Lucas explains quickly, seeing their stares.Asha huddles closer to her sister protectively.
Jasmine stays by her sister hiding her face with her hair getting scared but doesn't show it.
"Who are they running from?" someone asks roughly."We don't know. That's the problem." Lucas replies. Asha then speaks up "It has something to do with a stolen pendant."
They eye one another. "Stolen pendant? Was it valuable?""Must have been." Asha shrugs. Lucas shakes his head "Questions for later. They need a bit of warmth. Bad night last night. Make room, make room."
((gotta go!))
Jasmine thinks of the pendant again. She tries to remember what it looks like.((ok))
"I think it had an emerald in it. Or was it a ruby?" Asha thinks to herself.
"Emerald it is." Asha takes a seat on a crate by the fire and thinks harder. "A pendant with an empty compartment...holding secrets certainly. Thugs sent to kill us because we knew..." she tries to understand the situation.
Jasmine tires to understand. She remembers something she wrote in her notebook about a pendant. She takes her notbook and opens it. Her father helped her.
Asha leans over to see. "What is it sister?"
"I remember papa was telling me about a tale. I was so inspired by it I wrote it down. It was about a pendant." She said showing it to her sister in her ntoebook.
Lucas peers over Jasmine's shoulder to see as well. "What does it say?" Asha implores.
"The Tale was about a man who created a potion or medicine of some sort. That can kill and also bring back to life. It wa so strong that it con't be controled by anyone or anything. The only thing that blocked it was an Emerald." Jasmine said.
"Do you think...?" Asha leaves the question hanging in the air.
Jasmine thinks. "I'm not sure." She said
"Most likely though." Lucas interjects, thinking over the plan. "We'll need a scholar or historian to tell us whether this is true." He then straightens up and looked around the room. "Master Likam! Please, come over here."An elderly man hobbled towards them. He looked intelligent and wizened.
"What is it my boy?" he asks Lucas. "We want to know if this is real?" Lucas gestures at the notebook's sketch of the pendant.
Jasmine gives it to him so that he can see it. She wonders if he recognizes it.
He gasps, seeing the object. "Very much so! The pendant you write of child, it is just a legend but that looks like what it would if it was truly real." he tells them.Asha's eyes flick to meet Jasmine's.
Jasmine looks up surprised. She never it it was true. Her father just told her about it.
"Who would want it?" Lucas demands. The man strokes his chin before replying "Who wouldn't? But I suspect some noble or power-hungry lord." he replies, deducing.
Jasmine looks at the drawing and the tale she wrote.
"So...would they have a reason to hunt us?" Asha asks quietly."Certainly so my child! Certainly so! If anyone knew about it's existence, they'd want to get them." the scholar nods.
"How would they clear their names?" Lucas asks.
"Well...go to the source I presume. Attack the head. They won't give up this dog hunt any time soon, I'll tell you that."
Jasmine looks up. Realizing what's happening. "So if papa knew about the tale. That's why they killed him." She starts crying.
"And we're next." Asha whispers, hugging Jasmine.Lucas looks up at the master. "Thank you." Master Likam nods and walks away tiredly.
Jasmine hugs her sister crying badly.
"It's alright baby." Asha hugs her and strokes her hair.Lucas steps back to give them some space.
((gotta go))
((ok))Jasmine cries badly. "It's my fault I shouldn't have asked Papa to tell me that tale. To let me write it down." She cried.
"You couldn't have known! Hush little one." Asha implores.
Jasmine cries badly still blaming herself.
"Shush now. We can't blame ourselves. He didn't even know it was true! Everyone just thought it was a story." Asha consols her sister.
Jasmine finally stops but still cries.
"Better?" Asha asks, stroking her hair.
Jasmine nods "Yes." she said softly.
"Come on. We have a lead now. We can do this. We have to find out who wants us dead and strike him back." she says determinedly.
Lucas then returns. "I think some of my guard friends can help. You don't mind moving again?"
Jasmine looks at Lucas then her sister.
"No problem. Let's go." Asha stands back up and lets Jasmine walk first with Lucas.
Jasmine walks with Lucas. Hiding her notebook in her sisters satchel.
"This city isn't safe from its own police!" Asha complains quietly to her sister.