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Started March 05, 2023 by @FallenSinAza

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Erza did what she could to make some money, but hardly anything came. She sat in an alley way counting her few coins, "maybe I should skip towns..?" She whispered, "I hate it here.."

Verity had strapped on all her gear again, and gone on her patrol rounds for the hour.

She was taking backways, because she didn't want to see anyone looking at her with pity - she looked like shit from yesterday's skirmish.

She heard someone say, "Maybe I should skip towns?" and stopped to listen, hiding behind a trash can.

Erza let out a huge sigh and looked up into the blue sky, "I wonder, if there's a place, somewhere out there, that I can be free.." she looked at herself in the reflection of a puddle, she was dirty and her hair was full of knots. She huddled herself into a ball, as a tear dripped to the ground

Verity snorts quietly.

Get a grip. If there was a place anyone could be free, we would've already gone there. The only freedom we have is in death now. Get used to it. she thinks.

She got up off of the ground after a minute, she brushed her clothes and began walking out of the alley until she noticed someone crouching behind a trash can

Verity was now lying against the wall, eyes closed.

"So. You're sad that you have no freedom?" she asks.

Erza's eyes darkened, "what's it to you.." she scoffed

"If you're so sad about it, just go die. That's the only freedom we have." Verity says, openiing her eyes.

Erza gives her a side and and walks off, "kill yourself!" She yells back. She starts making her way to her tiny apartment to grab what little she has

Verity snorts.

"No. Unlike you, I don't spend all my waking hours wishing I was someone else. Somewhere else, sure, but ther is nowhere else for people like you and me to go. Even if there was, do you think you could even get a mile before you get killed?" she replies, slipping to her feet.

"my bad for wanting to be somewhere else, after your people attacked us,"

"MY people? We're the ones who are fighting aginst the fucking enemy and keeping you alive." she snarls.

"oh I see.." she said rubbing her chin, "ahh I get it! That's why you invaded our town and killed my parents, along with plenty other innocent people," she said with a smile

"We invaded nothing, whore. We saved your people from the hands of those feral goddamn beasts. We keep you fed, clothed and protected. All the enemy would want to do is rape you, beat you, sell you and kill you, not neccessarily in that order." Verity snaps.

"all your people so is rape me and other woman.. we would have been better off without you here!!" She yelled, "you disgust me.."

"We have done nothing to you and your goddamn people! We are here because we can be! We are here to protect you, and it's because of ungreatful goddamn whores like you that we're considering killing everyone here and moving on, like we should have done all those goddamn years ago!" she screams.

Erza glared with tears in her eyes, "drop dead," she spun around and ran, running as fast as she could.

"Oh I'm so scared of you! 'Drop dead.' What kind of woman are you, to be incapable of even standing up for her own dignity?" she snarls after Erza.

She made her way home and packed what little belongings she had. She made her way to the edge of town and looked up at the tall fence that trapped her in, she let out a breath and prepared herself, she'd been preparing herself for this moment her entire life.

Verity was already at the fence, twirling a revolver.

"And where, pray tell, are you going?" she asks bluntly.

Her face filled with anger, "leave me alone!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, "for once in your worthless life mind your own business!!"

"'Worthless.' Says the one who has to literally sell her body to make a living and still nearly dies. Who's really worthless, here?" Verity snaps.

"Besides, you won't even get a goddamn mile out there." she adds.

"says you.." she scoffed, "what's it to you anyway, this isn't even your side." She went up to the fence, judging how long it would take her to climb."

"As much as I may hate your guts and the very idea of your existance, my morals - yes I have those so I don't want to hear a goddamn peep out of you about it - are telling me to either stop you right here or follow after you." Verity grumbles.

"follow if you want, but I'm getting out of this place." She made a straight vertical jump and began climbing, this should be easy,

Verity grumbles something inelegant and jumps halfway up the fence, despite being a walking armory.

"I'm not going to follow some brain dead whore." she snorts, hopping over the top of the fence and dropping to the ground below.

She swings her leg over the top of the fence, cutting her leg on the barb, "then what are you doing?!" She grunted, making her way down the other side

"I'm going to take the goddamn lead is what I'll do." Verity snorts.

Erza drops to the ground and accounted for her cut, she tied I dirty rag around it and got up. "What's the point anyway.." she rolled her eyes