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Xion ([personal profile] abouttooverflow) wrote in [community profile] guest_list 2014-05-24 04:35 am (UTC)

3 - Two for the price of one

[Wherever you are, particularly if you're around the ambassador's hotel, you might find two black-coated kids talking in mutters.]

-this jerk.

[The first speaker is male, the other female, though the latter has a hood obscuring her face. Neither of them sound happy.]

How are we supposed to figure out what it is?

I don't know! It's like he just expects us to know.

And we still don't know where to find it, either…

[The boy heaves a frustrated sigh]

I guess we'll just have to ask someone. I don't know why they even thought it was a good idea to send us to talk to him...

[The boy turns, looking up and around, and then, even if you didn't happen to overhear that exchange, you'll find yourself being hailed.]

Hey! Hey, you!

[The girl runs behind him to catch up, and once she's sure that they have your attention, she speaks]

Um… do you know where we could get some… [beat, as if she's trying to figure out how to pronounce it] Harenaqua?

[muttering] Or what it is?

[Somebody who's more familiar with the ins and outs of economics in the local area might know that what they are looking for is in fact, mud. A mud that acts like a drug to the ambassador's species; specifically, it acts like acid.

Yes, he sent two children to get acid.

The answer to their question is: the black market. But then again, they probably don't know where that is either.]

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