Silver Lining (A STRQ Reader Story)

A Chance Encounter

In preparation for Beacon, Sil had decided to take trip into the commercial area of Vale. He had found himself in a dust shop.

Sil: 'Wow this place is out of ice dust. How is that possible...'

Sil walked around the store for a decent bit before finally going to cashier.

Cashier: Welcome Sir-

Before she could finish Sil had spoken

Sil: Ice Dust, Where?

The cashier closed her eyes and gave ticked off smile

Cashier: 'Real gentlemen'

Cashier: I'm sorry sir, We seem to be out at the moment. I apologize for the inconvenience. We restock on Mondays

Sil then walked out of the store with an annoyed look on his face.

Sil: 'Monday huh. Initiation is tomorrow. Guess I'll be wondering Vale today'

Sil had checked every dust shop he could find and they had all said the same thing. Eventually he had decided to just sit down at a bench to contemplate what to do.

Sil: 'How can every shop around the area be out of the exact type of dust that I need. Either I'm just really unlucky or the people around here are starting to get smarter and realized that if you freeze your opponent you're almost guaranteed an attack. Initiation can't be that hard whatever it happens to be. I'll just do it without using like half of my strategy.

Just then Sil heard screaming in the direction of one of the dust stores he had passed

Woman: HELP WE'RE BEING ROBBED. SOMEONE CALL THE POLICE

Sil: 'Well that looks like it's not my problem.... I wonder if I can use lightning dust to stun people instead of ice?'

As Sil was thinking to himself he noticed a white flash burst past him heading towards the robbery.

Sil: 'WOAH was that a Huntsman and or Huntress? They might be able to point me in the direction of a dust shop that isn't out of like 1/5th of what they sell'

Sil began to move in the direction in which he had seen the flash go. He was able to follow it perfectly due to the fact that the blur seemed to leave behind white petals. As he arrived at the scene he noticed that there was a crowd surrounding shop. 

Sil: 'I can't see a thing through the windows. Guess I'll have to go inside'

Sil had walked over to the door of the store to open it but had noticed that it wouldn't budge.

Sil: Well this won't do

Sil raised one leg up before delivering a kick onto the door sending it flying into the store hitting someone in the process and earning some gasps from the crowd of civilians

Sil: Oops my bad didn't mean to hit you with that random criminal

As Sil walked into the store all eyes were on him as everyone froze. There were a multitude of people in store. There were civilians tied up and gathered on the side and basic thugs with typical guns and a scared cashier who by sheer coincidence looked exactly like all the other cashiers in all the other dust stores. But what stuck out to Sil wasn't the robbers themselves rather what seemed to be teenager holding a long one handed sword. Sil took a good look at her. She wore gothic dress while donning a white cape which turned red on the inside. She wore grayish stockings with black long boots. He began approached her

Sil: You look a little young to be a huntress

???: That's a funny story that I'd love to get into but as you can see I'm kind of in the middle of something