On this cold afternoon, a sculptress wandered aimlessly through the streets of crocus, admiring the discreet, mostly deserted avenues after a particularly rainy morning. She'd been working out for most of that morning, yet now walked around with a cool, graceful stride - devoid of any hints to the soreness in her muscles - wearing an outfit not nearly as wintery as the chilly air might suggest. Shorts and stockings highlighting her shapely, leggy figure, a warm brown sweater, and a red scarf matching the deep color of her eyes eyes. The city had been mostly completely rebuild by now, yet the minute destruction it experienced on that battle yet weighed down on the city's mood. However could it not?
That battle had yielded a new king, who for all his seeming good will, was still an invader. The city had been conquered, and until all the former citizens - former slaves and freemen alike - came to live a better life, this sullen mood wouldn't fade away...
"Oho...? Look over there, Lumen~", Alisa called out to her humanized partner, guiding her eyes of amber to a nearby bakery. Someone they knew all too well, someone who had been there when the Lampent first achieved her human form.
A beautiful head of bright and lustrous, fiery red hair, the kind of beauty to turn the heads of any passerby, regardless of gender or sexual orientation; The kind of beauty Alisa admired, the kind of beauty she too possessed. More importantly, she knew this girl, though hadn't seen her in months. Alice... One of the few Rune Knights she actually respected, and though they had moderately similar views, this mutual respect hailed mostly from having stood side by side on the battlefield, facing one of the many threats to the Era.
Seemed like attacking Era was quite the fashionable outing for Dark Mages these days, though this particular attacker had raided it solo, devoid of any clear, murderous intent. Whenever Alisa struggled with realizing whether she gained anything from that battle, her thoughts always wondered to her friendship with Alice. And now that she'd spotted the girl inside, she had a perfect reason to step away from the chilly outdoors into a warm, welcoming bakery, and take a deep breath of that breaded scent.