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In town Tetia was dragging me all over the place. She was constantly saying, "Look at this!" or "Who knew such beautiful things could be made?"

We passed by a dress store, and a snow white dress with a red bow to go with it caught her eye. Right when she saw it Tetia stopped on her tracks and started drooling. I couldn't help but chuckle, and I went up behind her and whispered in her ear, "That's a nice dress."

She jumped nearly five feet from being startled. I asked her if she wanted it in between laughing. She responded, "But don't we only have enough money for the food and wine?"

"Not true." I responded, "Mom gave me some extra for us to buy what we want."

In truth this is my own money, but I don't see a better way to spend it. I took the dress and we went over to the cashier to get it. She was an older demi-human with cat ears and tail. She said, "Oh! What a nice gift for the young couple!"

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I quickly tried to correct her and say we were just friends, but when I looked over to Tetia to help me out she was just blushing. Defeated I decided to roll with it and ask how much it cost. She said it only cost 3 silver coins. I was shocked and asked, "Why? This dress is easily worth 3 GOLD coins."

She responded gloomily, "Well I'm a demi-human, so people won't pay a lot for me."

I thought that was absurd and paid her 3 silver coins and 1 gold coin on top of it. She said bless you, and we were on our way. We got the supplies and wine without any trouble, but on the way back through town a couple of guys wanted some trouble. They were a little bit older than us, and they went up and grabbed Tetia by the arm and stated, "Why don't you ditch this loser and come with us for some fun?"

She politely responded no thanks to them, and then they had some more to say. They growled, "Maybe I didn't say that right you piece of demi-shit. I said ditch this guy and come with us for some fun."

At this point I hadn't lost it, but I was pretty damn close. I grabbed his arm, and started burning it while commanding, "She said she didn't want to, no leave."

He jerked back from me with his burnt arm and said, "That's a nice trick farmers boy, but let's see if you can do it to 3 of us."

They all started running towards me, two with swords out, and one using enhancing magic. I calmly stepped in front of Tetia, and with both my hands swiping down, slashed two huge blue fire waves towards the two swordsmen to the left and the right. They were way to slow, and got burned to the point of near death because I didn't want to kill them. Right after that I pointed out my pointer and middle finger on my right hand, and I jerked my arm pointed towards the enhancement magic user. Out of my fingers jumped lightening, frying the kid. After it was over, I turned towards Tetia and asked, "Could you please heal them. I don't want them to die."

While she was healing them a man dressed very formally started walking out of the crowd we accumulated from the fight. I looked up to him and asked, "What do you want?"

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