Malia
"Auntie Lucia is going to kill us for being late. Did you really have to insist we stay until I make the shot on that guy's head?"
Sina gave Malia a playful yet disapproving look. A look Malia frankly could not take seriously because she was still recovering from laughing all the way back from the fighting house.
They were covered in sweat and exhausted from fighting for two hours straight. The local fighting house kept them occupied, filled with buff fishermen and other strange characters. Sometimes even foreigners. Sina had a marksmen competition with a strange woman from Yuyang, and they shot several arrows at a human target.
The man was not harmed, of course. He was paid to be there every night. Sina made sure he was covered head to toe in protective clothing before aiming an arrowhead at the apple on his head.
"What can I say?" Malia laughed and shrugged. "I didn't want that foreigner to think she could best Sina Lineir, the top markswoman from Lilth."
Sina rolled her eyes and nudged Malia hard in the ribs, chuckling to herself. "Ugh, as if. You were betting, weren't you? How much did you make?"
Malia grinned and pulled out rolls and rolls of Kukoan Rivo. Sina gasped at how full her hands were.
"You...genius!" She was in awe. "Did you make that off me alone?"
Malia shrugged again, a smirk on her face. "I had a few fights myself. Beat one lady and three guys."
Malia looked at the Rivo in her hands, mentally divided them in the middle and gave the other half to Sina.
"You did not count this money," she said.
"I split it all in the middle."
"That's not counting, Malia."
"I'm sure I have enough."
"Oh, Goddess help us."
Sina took the rest of the rivo from her hands and actually began counting. Unfortunately at that moment the clocktower in the middle of the town blared across the night. They were still on their way to Kiribati. And it was past curfew.
"Shit. Do you have your papers?" Malia shot Sina a look.
Sina frowned. "Only some. I didn't think we would need them."
"Me neither. Guess we got carried away."
Sina handed Malia her share of the money and they started bolting home. Sina wanted to sleep at her treehouse, but with curfew already in place she would have to sleep over. Auntie Lucia would not be happy with them.
The humid and lit streets of Kiribati welcomed them in minutes. Malia thought they were going to make it home if they just ran faster. But their eyes saw everything.
The Kaua Police were like vultures. Just ready to descend on prey they deemed dead enough. Pieces of their tight rope were flung around Malia and Sina's ankles as they rounded a bend, causing them to crash on the cold cobblestone.
"Owww!"
"Fuck!"
They piled onto each other, ankles and arms tangled. Malia wriggled to push herself up, but a black boot pressed her flat into the stone.
"Would you look at that? Two degenerates breaking curfew," the officer said with a smug scoff.
"We were on our way home," Sina explained. "We just got sidetracked. Please let us just be on our way."
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