Ikanbi of the sands stared at Nana for a long while, jotting away in her journal. She raised an eyebrow and scanned the horizon, checking in the architecture and peeping at the shadows. She adjusted her harpoon gun in its holster by her waist and her eyes narrowed on Nana for a moment. "You can relax." She said finally. "I don't care about your antics with Eternal Nightmare." She added with a tsk. "I am not exactly a good hearted person myself." Ikanbi gave a wicked grin. She scribbled in more features of Nana, taking in her finer markings and the features of her clothing, adding in linework and some textured shading. She worked diligently, slowly, yet swiftly, flourishing and brandishing her pen eaglishly as she soared across the paper of her journal. She ate her own apple and jotted notes down about it as well. She wondered about winter and how the weather here in the silver city would fair under snow. She had gotten so she rather did enjoy the snow, even if it was a stark contrast from Desierto.
"The Collective has files on many of you, the Dark Guilds, most guilds, even, most people, most things." Ikanbi rambled on a bit. "I did my research, I don't much mind, my sister was almost in Eternal Nightmare herself." She said eventually with a softer grin. She examined Nana's outfit. "How about that." She said softly and scribbled some notes into her journal. "Tell me more about you, besides what the bounty books say. I'd rather know you, the real you." Ikanbi said. "Me, I like research. Sometimes its...not...good aligned. That's where my sister comes into play." She gestured towards the street. "After all, sometimes its cheaper to acquire something than it is to pay for it. But mingling with the nobles here does have its perks I would say."
She gathered her journal together and tucked it away and became silent, then met up with the aristocat they were supposed to be shopping with. "Ah yes, this one." Ikanbi spoke silently, just so that Nana could hear. "I did a job with this one earlier in the week, they like to mingle about with the lower caste but they've made many would be enemies with their gambling habits. They do like to use the nice jewelry though as a poker chip so thats nice I suppose." She smiled and showed off a silver bracelet. "Won this off him that way actually haha." Ikanbi smiled again as they walked through the alleyways escorting their aristocrat of the week. This one did have a fondness for jewelry, as it were, and made several purchases, and spoiled the both of them, buying something for both Ikanbi and Nana each. Ikanbi thanked the rich man and pocketed the gift, she didn't even open it for the time being. Instead, her eyes scanned the streets, for she knew they had been followed.
Would be thieves, gangsters, thugs, ruffians, whatever you wanted to call them, preyed on the rich as they strolled the streets in the Silver City. It was up to Ikanbi and Nana to protect the aristocrats as they did their purchases. Today, some would be thug did indeed attempt to make off with some goods. He'd cased many places that day, and happened to stumble upon Ikanbi, Nana, and their particular breed of noble that was shopping with them that day. So, Ikanbi brandished her knife. "Leave us be or you're going to get hurt." She said to the thug, whom stepped forwards and reached for the bags the aristocat held. "Hey watch it." They said. "You don't listen do you?" Said Ikanbi and slashed at the thug with her knife, stepping in between herself and the aristocat and shoving the thug aside heartily. "You trying to get hurt then?" Ikanbi asked the thug honestly. "Have it your way." Ikanbi scrambled with her off hand for her harpoon gun and levied it at the thugs chest, then fired it, causing the metal rungs to smack into the thugs chest quite hard, knocking them backwards and on their rear quite prone.
She reeled in the line of the harpoon gun and tucked it back away at her waist, holstering it as she examined the one of the two thugs, for now another had shown up. "Ah drats its always a gang innit." She said to Nana. She readied her harpoon gun to assist Nana with the other one.
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