34 One More Mistake (1/2)
Bedona and the giant stared into each other's eyes or so what she believed. All she saw was the dark shadows under his thick brows. By his face she couldn't tell what he was thinking. His thick and long beard that hid down to his neck made it impossible to see his expression. He was angry, smiling or leering she didn't know. His robed body also hardly told her anything except that he was alert and ready. Looking down on him she realized they would be there for a long time and then finally when the dome collapsed under her she would be in a worse position than when she had started.
Sitting back she relaxed slightly, and thought on if it would even work. She would look utterly stupid if it didn't but no one was there to judge. No one but the giant, but she was quickly running out of options.
”I am sorry I hurt you.”
Bedona called out. She sounded scared, desperate, she added a slight tremble to her voice and forced her eyes to appear teary.
The man didn't reply but his pose did relax.
”Y-you scared me and I reacted. I am sorry!” she called out again. The giant still didn't move. Kneeling back she wrapped her hands around her and shuddered. ”Could I-could I get my clothes please?”
This time, like a sudden douse of icy water, the man did move. He slowly stepped back and looked down.
”Yes of course.” His voice was mild like a young man's. If she had only heard it, she would expect a skinny page boy who was too scared to even look up. ”I too am sorry I startled you like that. You may go and get dressed but I have some… questions for you afterwards.”
He meant it more seriously than he sounded. Which to her sounded like he was making a request at her not like the demand it actually was. 'Don't run, I am not done with you.'
What could he want to know from her?
The answer was so many things. If he wanted her because she was an Eye of Aristeros then there wasn't much she could offer. Her other jobs, she thought about it, weren't important enough to warrant attention from someone of his caliber, whoever he was. Her last job however, she shuddered…
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Stepping out of her safe s.p.a.ce, she slid down, almost rolled to the base of her dome. She did as much she could to cover herself and jogged toward her things. Kneeling, hiding from the giant man who was standing still, far away from her that he wouldn't be able to jump her she ignored her clothes and started fis.h.i.+ng her bag. How he managed to shock her by suddenly appearing out of thin air Bedona didn't forget. She felt the cold and smooth surface and brought them out, a pair of recovery potions made by Ava herself. More valuable than anything else she had right now and it was time to finally make use of them. She downed them without making her movement too obvious and started dressing.
Slow and deliberate, to make sure give him enough of a show. Something to distract him with. Bedona knew she was quite easy on the eyes, and more than a few found her extremely desirable. But she rarely used her natural look to get anything. Mostly in disguise while in her jobs her appearance was never her first weapon. This was one of the few times she was using her own skin.
The giant again didn't even twitch. This whole time she had been keeping sharp eye on his weight on the ground, and this whole time it didn't s.h.i.+ft even once. He might as well had been a rock like the numerous ones around her on the beach. The biggest and the heaviest of them that breathed and had a pulse of magic flowing through him.