It's a strategy to ensure I remain

It all begins somewhere...

There was a small village not too far from the forest. The forest was quite hostile and dangerous so people kept to the village, everyone done their own thing and went on living their lives. Their was many people living in the village, each and every one having their own individual characteristics and personalitys. Nobody had before had striked the idea of making this village into a nation, a safe place for its people within the borders.

A young man by the name of Valkyrie entered a flower shop, he breathed in the fragrance of the lively flowers all around and he smiled to himself. "It's so nice and peaceful in here." He mumbled to himself. He had a habit of mumbling, something that made him seem off to others. He turned to the shop owner "why hello there!" He says studying their facial features. Aiko was a young mother of one, a child called ace, "hi there how may I help you??" She asked in a polite tone "oh-oh sorry about that" valk laughed, he had zoned out because he was mesmerised by aikos face. Aikos perfect face. "I was just looking around in here, I never noticed this wee shop before so I fancied a look around" he says slowly scanning the shop.

"Ahh alright, we offer potions and flowers here" she said gesturing to the selves and stands around the shop. A small child scurried up to aiko and peeked their head from behind the counter and looked at Valkyrie "who's that mother?" They whispered to their mother who bent down to their level. "Oh their just a customer!" She said. "You have a perfectly layed out face" Valkyrie says in a memorised tone. Aiko quickly turned her face away because her face went warm, why was she blushing, she just met this stranger, yet she seemed to trust him... Valkyrie broke the short lived silence. "Soo what kind of potions do you make??" He says looking around and the bottles littered on the shelfs.

"Oh! I make all kinds of potions! Potions of healing, potions of invisibility and potions of fire resistance!" She exclaimed and flipped through the pages of the potion making book she had layed out neatly on the counter. "Invisibility aye?" Valkyrie said clearly interested in the concept of being able to go invisible with a potion. "could I give you a free invisibility potion? And you could tell me how it works??" Aiko asked leaning over the counter a bit. "Of course!" Valk nodded. Aiko turned around to make the potion mixing a potion of night vision and one fermented spider eye and poured the mixture into a glass bottle and grabbed some of the most pretty blue flowers from the shelf. They were myosotis. They handed a bouquet and the potion to Valkyrie. Valk smiled at her "thank you so much!" He exclaimed. "By the way you never introduced yourself" "oh I'm Valkyrie! Nice to meet you!" He looks at the name pin on aikos uniform. "It's nice to meet you aiko!"

"I'll always be in here if you need me!" Aiko says smiling at them. "Oh? You should come down to my hut down the road? It's quite messy but it's cozy enough." Valkyrie said gesturing towards the direction of their house. "I will go there soon as i can, i need to socialize with other people than Ace the whole day. Having a child by being alone isn't the easiest when you have a whole flower shop to keep. I will visit when you'll be here." Aiko says back, Valkyrie now noticed how tired they looked "well when is your shift over?" "Oh around 5 pm, the shop is always more popular and full of life earlier in the morning!" She said putting some flowers into a bouquet and sitting them on the shelf. "I'll talk to you then" he says grabbing his bag and turning to leave. "Just text me when your ready to come down to my house!"

Aiko turned to ace. "So ace do you mind if I go visit a friend at 5 pm" ace nodded and said. "I don't mind mother!" "Yeah it's Valkyrie who just left the shop they seem nice" "he does!" "I know I only met them today but I'm sure I can trust them!" ...it was currently 4 pm. The sound of the clock ticking echoes off the walls of the shop. Aiko walked into the main room of the shop while putting on a coat. "Ok ace, if there's a client that comes into the shop you will need to help them out, you understand? There's a book about flowers behind the counter and if they ask for potions just say we aren't making them today." She walked out the door a bit worried to leave ace alone, yes he was mature for his age but he is still a child.