[ Five recognizes Vanessa immediately, but for once she isn't eying him like they've got some terrible shared secret between them that's never going away. She doesn't acknowledge that she hears him at all. At the moment she's completely distracted by someone so small he can barely see them until he gets closer. She doesn't even look in his direction as he approaches; entirely consumed by a little boy with a lantern.
That doesn't bode well. ]
Hey. [ She still doesn't look up, and a pit forms in his stomach. He's already seen how the peddlers here can't be trusted, and too many are out to control them by any means necessary. If they get their claws in her, bad things are going to happen. He jogs over, raising his voice and trying again to get her attention. ] Hey. Vanessa, look away.
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That doesn't bode well. ]
Hey. [ She still doesn't look up, and a pit forms in his stomach. He's already seen how the peddlers here can't be trusted, and too many are out to control them by any means necessary. If they get their claws in her, bad things are going to happen. He jogs over, raising his voice and trying again to get her attention. ] Hey. Vanessa, look away.