The Tales Of Esmeralda

Chapter 12: "Oh? So You're Sebastian The...Shitty Suckass?"

"Why're stopped? We-we stopped moving why?" Esmeralda asked in a confused state. She still had her eyes closed from being asleep, her head no longer on Yolanda's shoulder but now in her lap.

Esmeralda finally opened her eyes and looked up at Yolanda, who looked down at her.

"We're stopping to get some food," Yolanda answered. "Seeing as we're running out. And the horses need a break. It seems like a nice place. I was about to wake you. Now...don't tell Sebastian I said this, but I honestly think that this place is way better than where he's from. Better than yours too, but yours is also better than this place. Just in different ways. Come on, Esmeralda the Good. You have some exploring to do."

Esmeralda smiled up at her, then sat up with a stretch and a yawn, her eyes closed again. When she opened her eyes she gasped, interrupting her yawn.

It was a nice village that looked almost exactly like Sebastian's just better. Esmeralda almost couldn't explain it. There was fresh green grass on the ground instead of brown dirt. The buildings were nicer and cleaner and not falling apart. It just overall looked better.

Esmeralda got down from the cart seconds after Yolanda and walked up to Sebastian, who was in the middle of the road with Esmeralda's sleeping cat in his arms.

"Isn't it one of the most beautiful things you've ever seen?" Sebastian asked the girls that were now to his right.

Yolanda looked down at Esmeralda and smiled as she saw a smiling Esmeralda looking in awe at the village. "Yeah. One of them."

Esmeralda then looked up at Yolanda and frowned. "Whatcha lookin' at me for?"

"Oh! Uh, well...I just wanted to see if you were gonna answer Sebastian's question too... I was trying to be polite."

Esmeralda smiled again. "Oh okay! Well..." She looked back at the village and then so did Yolanda. Esmeralda noticed and looked back at Yolanda with a small smile. "I've never seen anything more beautiful than this..."

"We should go check this place out more," Sebastian suggested as he scratched the side of Triana's neck, making her purr. "Maybe stay here for a few days."

Esmeralda looked up at the sky. "I'm fine with it if you guys are."

Yolanda smiled. "Then let's go adventuring."

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"Here looks promising!" Yolanda declared as she gestured up at a sign. It said Dionysus's Tavern on it with a carving of grapes on it.

Esmeralda glared at Yolanda as the three of then stopped walking. "Why is it that we always start out going to a tavern or inn where there's a bar and they serve alcohol?"

"Because alcohol is the drink of the future!"

"But you can't live off of alcohol! You have to drink something else! Like water! Water's good!"

"Dionysus can live off of wine and shit."

Esmeralda looked at Yolanda with her eyebrows furrowed and her mouth opened. "Dionysus is a god! You can't use him as an example!"

"But he can live off of wine!"

"But he's a god! Us mere mortals cannot do the same things that a god can do! For example, we cannot use magic."

"Actually technically we could use magic!"

Esmeralda glared at Yolanda again. "That's not the point! I just - you can't live off of wine!"