MAEA
The streets of Haulani filled when the sun set. People were milling back and forth between shops near to closing and market stalls about to gather up for the day. It was difficult to navigate the winding streets at the best of times, and especially so when they were full to bursting with shoving elbows, shouting voices and the laughter of children running back and forth around the legs of their parents, guardians or apprenticeship masters.
Maea felt no more than a child herself at times like these. She was the perfect height to be elbowed in the face or chest by most people, and had already given up her attempts to get to the last of the stalls she wanted to see before returning home. Sore-footed and exhausted from a day spent in the Torchline heat, she stopped on a street corner and set her bag down on the ground beside her feet, desperately in need of stretching her back out.
No sooner had she let go of it, though, than a pair of dirty hands grabbed hold of it. Before she could even react, a filthy street urchin had hauled it away and was running full tilt into the crowd.
"Hey! Give that back!" Maea swore and tore after the kid, far less nimble and definitely not as familiar with the layout of the streets.
Maea felt no more than a child herself at times like these. She was the perfect height to be elbowed in the face or chest by most people, and had already given up her attempts to get to the last of the stalls she wanted to see before returning home. Sore-footed and exhausted from a day spent in the Torchline heat, she stopped on a street corner and set her bag down on the ground beside her feet, desperately in need of stretching her back out.
No sooner had she let go of it, though, than a pair of dirty hands grabbed hold of it. Before she could even react, a filthy street urchin had hauled it away and was running full tilt into the crowd.
"Hey! Give that back!" Maea swore and tore after the kid, far less nimble and definitely not as familiar with the layout of the streets.
Nothing lasts forever, I thought you should know
BASE INSPIRED BY ODD <3
