79 Deception (1/2)
As soon as Grey and Jessica enter their shop, the shopkeeper bows to them and they stop him from doing so and ask, ”Did a woman with …”
-and so continued the expected conversation. They gave the shopkeeper the description of her and the shopkeeper said that no one like that had come in. This happened in the first shop we stopped at. And then it happened in the second one. And then it happened in the third one.
”This isn't going anywhere. These two have 10 shops throughout the city. If we aren't lucky, we aren't going to catch her.” Rain complains with an annoyed face.
”You have a better idea to do this, Rain?” I ask.
”Well, no.” She says, ”But I can, like, use my powers to cover all the shops faster than we are doing now. I mean, no offence, but this thing you call a car is pretty damn slow.”
”Sure, you can use your powers to cover all the shops faster and basically let Dues know through your ridiculously large aura that you are coming directly towards her.” I say sarcastically, ”I'm sure she'll wait for you to arrive after she senses you.”
THWACK!
Rain kicks the car pretty hard, making a dent in it.
”Take it easy, miss. This car isn't cheap.” Grey says.
”I am taking it easy, human, or your car would already been a pile of a junk by now.”
Well, she isn't wrong, not wrong about the car being a pile of junk if she weren't going easy on it, and not wrong about the fact that we need the figure out exactly which shop Dues is headed to.
”So you do two have any idea about this? I mean, a shop of yours that specializes in green crystals or a shop that has everything but green crystals. Anything like that?” I ask.
”Nope, we have equal amounts of variety in all 10 shops.” Jessica answers.
Damnit!
”Alright, did Irium or Roswaisa have any connections to any of the 10 shops?” I ask.
”No, they didn't. Roswaisa didn't stay here long enough to get acquainted with gem shops and he has no interest in them.”
Hmm … okay, think of something else. Anything else!
Wait! Roswaisa was an Emerald Angel, and emeralds are green. That could be a clue, couldn't it? … Emeralds are a variety of diamonds though, they aren't crystals. And that reminds me –
”Hey, you two,” I say as I lean towards the two front seats those two are sitting on and continue, ”Your gem shops should generally specialize in diamonds, right? What about crystals? Aren't there any shops that have more amounts of crystals than the others?”
”No, as I said before, we have a lot of variety everywhere.” Jessica says, ”There are crystals in all our shops. There is quite the demand for crystals in this city actually.”
Wait! That's odd, isn't it?
”You are telling me people here like buying crystals a lot. Why?” I question, half-expecting a valuable reason but,
”There are all kinds of uses of crystals, you know?” Jessica replies like it's only natural, ”It's used in therapies for example.”
”Therapies? I see.”
Crystals are multi-use products. They can be used for a lot of things. But, people rarely have a high demand for them?