“Back here ya little penny pincher!”
Ava may have still been grinding away at the small jobs, but that didn’t mean she was gonna stop any time soon. So long as she didn’t have the rank she felt she deserved, she was gonna keep doing her job till she got up there and earned some respect from the system. She got the vibe Sofia and Alisa were more than ready to respect her as she was, buuuut… with their mature energy and constant little giggles, it could also feel like they were patronizing a housepet or something like that. So, she needed to do the small jobs in order to be able to get the big jobs!
Right now she was rushing after some punk who’d apparently been stealing charity donation boxes around the place and breaking them open. With her hot on their tail, they weren’t going to get too far but they had a good lead by the time Ava noticed them. Dressed in her old street garb to blend in, their puffy half-jacket and mawed face mask giving them a more feral look as they held hard to the chase, dipping into an alleyway to cut them off.
He seemed to breathe easy for a moment, but Ava wasn’t about to let that last, rushing out ahead of them thanks to their shortcut, right ahead of a specific fairy she had yet to meet, holding out her hands and generating her magic circle.
“Gotcha.~”
An eruption of Mana later, and the charity pincher was nice and fried, Ava dusting her hands off, a few concerned civilians around her, but quick to hold up her hands. “Don’t worry ladies and gents, just some guild work.” She moved to grasp the front of his shirt, hoisting him up as she pried the charity-bin from his hands, making sure it was still intact before having a glance around, double taking at a more mature looking woman.
“… You…” She paused, thinking for a second, tilting her head. “You look familiar luv…we met?”