Nolita Fairytale

[Mai]

Azula was back at the palace. Ty Lee was off somewhere with her ten boyfriends. So what did Mai have to do?

Go shopping. Food shopping.

Mai carried the basket of food in one of her arms, a list of food to get in the other hand. "Who needs ocean kumquats?" Mai said in a dull tone under her breath to herself before changing her path to another kosik. Mai set the basket down by her feet at looked to the shop merchant.

It was a woman; dressed in fire nation attire as were all the civilians. The woman had red hair pulled back into a ban with a too-long dress. The womans gold eyes flickered back and forth from person to person. She looked worried. Well, quite honestly, Mai didn't really care. Mai didn't care much to go back to Azula again either, but whatever.

"What do you want?" The merchant asked. Mai pointed to the rancid smelling kumquats in a box to her right, which the woman started picking one at a time and placing them in a smaller box. "Have you heard?" The merchant asked her in a low voice, leaning over the boxes, slowly abandoning the kumquats.

"Probably." Mai answered in her impassive voice and pointing to the kumquats again. "Well," The woman ignored Mai completely, continuing on with her story. "The Avatar... is back." The woman whispered to Mai, which Mai didn't really care about, again. Mai just wanted her dang kumquats.

"Great. Another thing for Azula to drone on about until two o' clock in the morning. Now, can you give me my kumquats?" Mai pointed to the kumquats yet again, sounding as bored as ever. The merchant frowned, obviously that her story didn't appear to shock Mai in the slightest. Mai gave the merchant the money and placed her kumquats in the basket. Mai picked the basket up and started off again when she tripped over something, stopping herself just in time before she hit the ground.

"Who just tripped me?" Mai turned around, her gold eyes like golden ice.

(open to anyone to rp)

[amaterasu]

Amaterasu walked down the stalls of the market her eyes scanning their merchandise. She hated shopping so much, but she had to buy food at some point. She stopped ever so often picking through fruits and vegetables picking out the freshest produce she could find. Her purse wasn't over flowing to begin with, but now it was just depressingly empty. "Only two small bags of produce and we are near empty. I so need a raise in salary." Amaterasu whispered to herself as she obtained the last thing on her list. It was a large portion of meat. Luckily she knew the merchant so she was able to get a discount. Meaning she had no money left...at least she had food?

Amaterasu placed the last of her purchase in a small wicker basket. She placed it on her arm holding it by the handle. She scanned the shops still just window shopping. She could dream of actually buying enough food to comfortably get through a week.

Amaterasu's eyes were stuck on something that had caught her eye. As a result she didn't catch sight of Mai. She felt them collide and the other fall. She blinked a couple of times not exactly sure of what had happened. "Oh! I'm sorry!" Amaterasu apologized quickly upon figuring out what happened.

[Mai]

Mai spun around, her blades in one hand and her eyes narrowed into slits. Mai quickly resumed a 'normal person' stature and looking at the woman, her expression now not hostile, but the same bored, dull mask as ever. Mai tucked her blades into her kimono again, and started off to picking up the food that dropped on the ground.

Mai nodded once to the womans apology. "It's okay." Mai sighed impassively, crouching down and picking up the small box of the ocean kumquats that had split in two. There was some dirt on them, and one had split, green liquid spilling out on the pathway. "I'm glad I'm not eating these." Mai picking up the kumquats and piled them in the box, setting them gingerly in her basket again.

[amaterasu]

"I would offer to pay for those...but I have no money at all. The life of a soldier...sounds glamorous, but the pay cheek is a little lacking." Amaterasu said with a depressed sigh. She was finally starting to feel the depressing of having nothing to eat half of the time.

"I'm Amaterasu by the way and you would be?" Amaterasu asked introducing herself at the same time. She didn't give a smile...she wasn't one to do such things often. Instead she showed no emotion, which was better then anger.

[Mai]

"I'm not going to eat them anyway, so it doesn't matter." Mai said, completely bored. She was going to be bored back at the palace anyway, so there wasn't much point at being at either of the places. "I'm Mai. Nice to meet you." Mai added on the last part out of habit, but her tone was as detached as it was always.