Noreen grew up in the streets of the northern kingdom; her parents died early to an unknown sickness and she was left alone to fend for her self, luckily her parent left a few savings and a house for her to live in; since then, she has learned everything around her kingdom to offer tourists and aliens alike to provide them the best of service that would profit her and leave a smile of satisfaction at her customers face.
" wait" the attendant walked upto lucian and Noreen with heavy footsteps, an hostile energy leaked out from him as if he was threatening them.
"what is it? Did we perhaps head in the wrong direction? " lucian was the one who spoke this time, he was ready to act if threatened and from the man's energy output; he could tell he was much more stronger than the attendant was was.
"no problem sir but you forgot to take along with you, your card as well as deposit the payment for it" the man said
" oh, sorry about that, and I did not mean to cause you any discomfort " Lucian apologized as he let the swipe over his bracelet.
" you do not need to apologize, just make sure you did not forget about such important procedure the nex5 time you visit this organization " the attendant declared "your personal attendant will be sent to your room after" He said before leaving lucian and Noreen back to his stand.
"... " Noreen.
"... " lucian.
" okay! That was awkward and scary" Noreen heaved a sogh of relieve as they walked through the stairs.
"Right "lucian responded. Although he believed he had the strength to defeat the man but what if he brought more people along? And he did not believe that such big underground market could employ such weakling to guard against intruders alone.
" I really thought that we would die "Noreen hit her chest twice before breathing in a mouthful of air and exhaling it out.
" why are you acting like someone that just finished running a marathon? " lucian asked when he saw her gasping for breath.
"I held my breath in, you might be thick skinned but I can be cut easily with a blade and besides, live is a marathon" she said.
Lucian stared at her in shock, he never told her he was thick skinned; he can be cut with a blade as long as it is made with beast cores or infused with energy "I am going, you can stay there running your invincible marathon" he said as he climbed up the stairs.
"hump...if you knew how lucky you are to be with me, you wouldn't act the way you just did" she hit her foot on the ground before following beside Lucian through the stairs.
The stairs was not that long, but the decoration of golden swords lying at either side of the wall screamed wealth to the extent that one would be tempted to take one for themselves.
"I know what you are thinking" Noreen said seeing lucian expression change from appreciation of the antiques to pity of it being stolen.
"what? "lucian asked since he did not voice out his thoughts.
"you are thinking If this won't be stolen " she said bringing his thought to reality.
Lucian was not surprised at her accurate guess, if what noreen said was the truth about her fending for her self and having to deal with strangers all the time, he expected at least this much of guessing one's thought.
"you are right" Lucian did not deny her being correct about her guess.
"make no mistake, anyone who dares to as much as try stealing any of these will die without knowing how" she explained.
Lucian was surprised, since he came here up to the very present, not a single guard strong enough to overpower him as been seen, but he did not become arrogant as to think he was the strongest person to have ever been there; he knew there was or has been someone stronger than he was who frequent the market at times.
"then they must have powerful guards keeping watch" lucian said as he walked t the end of the stairs to see a very long corridor with rooms at both sides of it and numbers at the door.
"I heard there was a vampire who over sees everything going on here " Noreen explained as she stretched out heroine palm for lucian to hand her the card.
"... what is it?" lucian asked when he saw the open palm of Noreen stretched out towards him.
"argh...the card dummy" Noreen groaned in frustration since lucian was not the quickest at reading the moment ' yeah, and he also almost exposed our identity at the core stand's vendor. Noreen grew up fending for her self since her parents death and hard to think quick and be smart in everything she does to survive. She might be a young banshee but she can brag to be as wise as an old sage like the old tortoise from the fey race (beastmean) she unconsciously thought everyone should be able to judge and act smartly in every moment like her.
"ohh, here" lucian handed the card to her "you should have let me know instead of just stretching out your palm like that, how do you expect me to know you wanted the card and not something else" lucian defended him self
Lucian had never had anyone act cute and all of a sudden act matured then went ahead to call him a dummy; he has always been looked upon as a god and the son of the great king of Orton and all it's in habitat that no one dared point out his wrongs (except Emera of course who hates him for no particular reason, although she seems to be opening up to him since he offered to take her along to the eastern continent of Orton for training sake) he unconsciously wished Noreen was his younger sibling.
" did you have anything on you that I may have asked for? " she asked having this look on her face that says 'really! Is that an excuse ? ' .
Lucian went through his brain to see anything that she might ask for but then he realised that she does not know about his dimensional storage.
"...No" only now did he realize that he had nothing on him except the card.
Noreen checked the number on the card then walked up to on of the doors before inserting the card in one of the doors to open it.
" we have been expecting you".
A group of people said from inside the room the moment the door opened.
" ahhh... " Noreen opened her mouth in an o shape as she was speechless at what they saw