[closed] BOUNTY DOUBLE FEATURE

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CHARACTERS: Fiona & Aloy with bounty buddies
DATE: Hanabira, post-ambush
WARNINGS: none as of yet
SUMMARY: Catch-all bounties with my girls!! Let me know here if you want something.

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for zarya: tea-m work

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[Fiona is not a really big fan of tea, but it's apparently a super important part of Hanabiran culture -- enough where she's hoping she'll get a nice, fat reward for tracking this shipment down. Maybe a castle. (Probably not a castle.)

She's just left the tea seller further up the road and is trotting back to retrace her steps when she sees a familiar pink haircut coming her way.]

Zarya! Hey. [She slows down and waves.] How are you at investigation?

[flexing]

[ Zarya pauses to be hailed, not at all bothered to keep the giant sack of rice she'd been hauling over one shoulder, and is quick to start on a broad smile to see a familiar face — but the question put to her pauses it. ]

Investigation? [ She asks it with some wariness. Honestly, why is she everyone's go-to lately for this? Does she look like a detective? ] I have some experience. Why?

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[Once she's close enough to Zarya to hold a normal conversation, she pauses to look at the gigantic bag she's holding, raises her eyebrows silently, then continues.]

Beeecause. I just got a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and you're the first person I saw! Sooo, what do you say we team up, just two hyper-competent women tracking down a very important missing shipment of, uh... goods. Important goods. Which involves a handsome reward!

[She might be trying to talk this up to make it a little more exciting, mostly because it's going to be hella boring if she searches for a bunch of missing tea by herself, she is aware.]

[flexing]

[ Okay, this absolutely does not sound like Zarya's area. But she won't shirk from a task assigned to her, even if it's just by a teammate. She frowns thoughtfully, squaring her stance as she straightens herself up a little more. This is no pause in a stroll, this is now a conversation. ]

This shipment, it was stolen? Or misplaced?

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[Good, Fiona was sure she'd pegged Zarya right: duty-bound soldier, always ready to do whatever task was appointed to her, no matter how stupid. It makes her miss Riza a little.]

The owner-- merchant! She isn't sure. It wasn't on her cart when she stopped to check, so it's either somewhere along the road, or... [She gestures vaguely at the woods around them. Or someone nicked it off her cart, in which case it could be anywhere.]

[flexing]

[ That isn't much to go off of... but Zarya has worked with less. She considers it all for a few seconds, then nods. ]

Then we begin by asking. Come, we will find people on the way to where this belongs. [ The enormous bag of rice, that is. She could just keep hauling around this 200lbs like it's nothing, but the owners probably want it delivered. She starts forward, striding with purpose. ]

This merchant, you are friends? [ why is Fiona doing this?? ]

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[Iyaaan, carry her, Zarya. Not that she's 200lbs. She's way less than that, urchin that she is.

Fiona easily falls into step somewhat behind and to the side of Zarya, not because she doesn't want to walk next to her but more because her stride isn't that big. Why does everyone she associates with have to be a giant.]

Nah, we just met. [She pauses, then adds with ramped up enthusiasm,] But, you know! There's always time to help a stranger.

[Zarya is a soldier, soldiers like to help people. Fiona is trying very hard to get on her good side.]