Alvin snickered softly. “I see. Don’t try that line on the gray-haired guy with the scar who’s the night manager. He won’t buy it, trust me.” Spoken with the weight of experience. “So maybe we better go check there now, before he comes in for his shift.” He still didn’t see a blue-haired man anywhere — and someone like that should have stuck out like a sore thumb. 

“This sort of con normal for you two?” He was curious where they landed on the balance between mercenaries and con artists.

      "Oh- Well that's good to know then. I don't tend to keep up with the information, that's not really my job... Normally I don't get to know about the 'con's until it's a little too late, this is the first time I was told before we had to leave or it started to fall apart." She thinks a little more about the kinds of stunts they've pulled.

      "I don't think so. Stuff like that is sorta last resort, I think. It's not normally just the two of us either, theres two more we travel with too. Sometimes one of them pretends to be my mom, and then we've got a dysfunctional family where nobody can explain why I look so different from my 'parents'." She smiled a bit to herself, "Sorry, I kinda drag on and on and stuff a lot."

Isaac nodded at the description. Delis sounded like he would be one to stand out in a crowd, though he was worried about the eye bandages. “Well then, it sounds like he’ll be easy to find. Let’s look for him together then.” With any luck he’d be tall enough for Isaac to spot over the heads of everyone else.

      "Well I'm just gonna warn ya, he's a lot harder to find than a blind man should be. Number one game to never play with him is Hide and Seek." She wanted to clarify that fact, not only because it was true, but the fact that it tended to be a habit to exaggerate when it came to Delis. She mostly blames him for that though. "Thank you for helping, though. I really appreciate it."

“You’re right, that does sound pretty bad. You sure we don’t wanna come up with a better line?” he teased, though he was surveying the area as they walked. Nope, no bandaged-eyed blue-haired mercs right here. “So is he your dad?”

      "No, I wouldn't want to possibly get in trouble. That role is sorta the reason we're getting to stay at the Inn for free and we don't really have to sign down any names on stuff." with the question he'd asked she gave a disgusted look,

      "No. He is not my dad. My dad isn't as dumb as Delis is." Maybe she was being just a tad too harsh, but at this point it was almost habit.

“Ah, my apologies.” Isaac awkwardly chucked as he stood again. “It is a pleasure to meet you Josias.” He took her hand in his and shook it, rather than give her the usual kiss on the hand he normally offered to girls. She seemed like she would be less than fond of that. “So what does Delis look like? We can search for him together.”

      She gave him a small smile, "It's fine, Don't worry about it." She thought for a moment before finally deciding how to describe him. She didn't want to get her words mixed up and confuse the other accidently, "He's tall, has dark blue hair, he wears bandages over his eyes and wears a silver-ish coat with a teal trim."

That got Alvin’s attention, and earned Josais a smirk. “Well, that depends. I wouldn’t cast me as doting grandfather,” he teased, as they started toward the main plaza. “So who do you need me to be? Jilted lover? New employer? Angry brother?”

      Well at least he seemed to be able to help, seeing how quickly he was to throw around possible roles, and that was good however... "Actually, erm, Just, if anybody asks- and I mean I don't think anybody will- but if they do, I've only got 4 weeks to live, I don't know that though, and it was always my dream to see the world... Wow that sounds really bad when I say it out loud. If anything just say you're helping me find my dad."

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Jude paused and frowned. “I suppose it depends on how damaged it is. If it’s just a small fracture, it might be around..”

He tapped his chin in thought, humming as he tried to think. It would be around what? He tried to think to what his parents would have charged.. “Might be around 1000 gald.”

      She stopped in her tracks, it felt as though her heart had just stopped, "1000 gald?!" It should've made sense, being as how medical bills tended to be expensive. And that wasn't even as expensive as most other things.

      She turns around and starts walking away, "No, Nope, Nah-ah, I can't do it, I don't even think I've seen that much gald in my whole life-" Okay maybe she was exaggerating, but with her limited capabilities she couldn't even dream of trying to take on jobs to make that much gald. "I'll just deal with it, it'll be fine!"

“Alvin.” He gave her a lazy wink. “And you?“ He let his gaze range over the  plaza — no obvious blue-haired men here. “So where’d you last see him, anyway?”

      "I'm Josias, It's nice to meet you, Alvin." She gave a short nod, smiling briefly before thinking about the last place she saw Delis, "Uhm... Well... At the Inn we were staying at." She wished she could have been able to say she had seen him anywhere else, but that'd honestly been where she'd seen him.

      "I don't think he'd still be there but- uhm...If we go there..." She wasn't sure how to put this, "Are you good at acting?"

“Well, there’s always the Job Requests near the Seahaven area.” She pointed towards the port near the vast blue sea. “Though, just a warning, some of them are pretty… Um, ‘challenging’.” Challenging was definitely not the correct word here. Try… “Insane”?

      "Are there ones that are extremely not-challenging?" Challenging sounded like it was either complicated or involved fighting, neither of which she was all that good at. "Or just simply easy ones?"

Jude nodded slowly and smiled. “Come on now, follow me and I’ll lead you there.” He promised softly with a gentle smile.

He moved, making sure she was following. He paused when she spoke, waving his hand dismissively. “It’s fine. I should have been paying attention. No need to be sorry.”

      "Alright..." She mumbled, "Do you know how long it'll take to get there? And how much it's going to cost?"

      She wanted to prepare to hear the price, go ahead and get out her story that she'd need to go get money to be able to pay the doctor. The ginger glanced at the boy nervously.

“Yes. I’m paying attention right now.” He replied and frowned. “Ah yes, I recalled hearing that the smallest fracture on bones can be quite painful.” He mumbled softly and nodded once more. “I can direct you to a clinic if need be. They would have better equipment. Come on.”

      She nodded, "That's probably for the best, I was hoping you'd know of somewhere." She rubs around where the injury was subconsciously. Josias looked at the ground considering how she'd treated him earlier.

      Things like this started bothering her quickly after she'd done something. Needless to say, battles had taking a while to get used too. She mumbled out a quiet, "I'm sorry for being rude..."

“O-okay, sure, that’s fine. I mean, if it’s a secret you don’t have to– but I do promise that I won’t tell anyone.” Worried, Jude took a glance around them, checking over his shoulder as well. He always did have a knack for getting himself into things.

Once fairly sure there were no shooters on the rooftops or something, he held out a hand toward the open town. “So where should we go? I’ll follow you.”

      She gave a small shrug towards the first comment, "It's probably irresponsible to tell somebody I only just met too, but I really kinda want to get some stuff off my chest, ya know?"

      That was when it hit her that she didn't know where she was, much less any secret or private parts of town. "E-Er... Actually, I don't really know where we are at the moment... I've never really been here before.. I think?"

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      “Mhm. Sure.” She’ll believe it when she sees it. She’d also like to think the other wasn’t a better healer than she was. If it turns out he was she’d have to make she he wasn’t around when she caught up with her group. “Maybe you should get some rest or something…”

Not another person telling him to sleep… “I’m fine.” He replied simply and nodded. That was that, he was fine. He wasn’t in need of assistance from this lady. “Anything else I can help you with?”

"Depends, are you paying attention this time?" Ah... Maybe she was being a little harsh. The ginger gave a short sigh, "actually I probably need to find a clinic. I'm pretty sure I've got a small fracture in the Ulna of my right arm." He said he was a medical student so he should understand those terms, it'd help him locate the injury too.

“I-I..” He stuttered and sighed. Yes, this was correct. He wasn’t awake today, it was hard to pay attention. “Just on this particular day, I assure you I’m better sometimes.”

      "Mhm. Sure." She'll believe it when she sees it. She'd also like to think the other wasn't a better healer than she was. If it turns out he was she'd have to make she he wasn't around when she caught up with her group. "Maybe you should get some rest or something..."

“Well, I wouldn’t say it’s that cheap, but my parents run the local inn here! It’s 100 gald per night!” She gave the other a sheepish smile. “If you want me to, I can help you pay.”

      "It's better than some Inns I've been too." Maybe she wont mention that Delis also tended to either magically have more than enough money on him or would convince the Inn keepers to let them stay for free.

      "Well, I don't know if I'm going to have to stay yet though, but it'd be nice to try to get the money to do so just in case." Josais hoped that maybe there would be some open and easy jobs she might could do for the gald.