Prologue:

If Yvaine had a wish this Christmas, it would be spent on a super wand or at least a red stone to make that elite wand of hers super. There was something about a super wand that invoked power, something that whispered fear and doubt to PKers.

Well, she could keep on dreaming, although elites are only a few numbers away from those of supers. It made no difference in the eyes of a PKer.

Another day, another batch of logs, another pesky PKer. This time NighLord wasn`t here, no heroic BGMs rang just the slashes of ChainChop. And this time her elite elf robe that was supposed to sell to a customer that never came, dropped during the kill, a good 35-45 EPs dropped with 1 mill. This was what delivery girls had to risk.

She decided it was enough for the day, and went to market. The market was filled with people offering, buying and selling in thousands of EPs. She imagined it in the real world, if the typing became real words spoken. It would be the noisiest place in the known universe. People spamming the chat boxes with offers, with their super swords and super wands and Eudemons` stars in the twenties.

She browsed through things she couldn`t buy through the people peddling. Neils, Dianas, Rex`s and all those Humanoid eudemons sold for 500 - 1000 EPs, An emerald robe for 10 mill, her eyes sparkled. What a great deal! She was about to buy it when suddenly,

A dove ran through the left side of the screen: "S> invisibility 50 ep wsp me". They said it was the mage equivalent to the Flying Chop. Not as valuable but it was more of a collector`s item. You couldn`t buy the book in any grocery. Emerald robe or Skill book? Definitely Skillbook. So she PMed him and offered 5 mill instead of 50 ep. She had another 3mill in the bank so it was no worries. After increasing the offer to 7 mill, he took the offer and asked her to come to `sodar`.

Chapter 2: Something Surprising

Yvaine heard stories about sodar. The greatest deals and the foulest scams were made there. She paid no mind to those stories. It was 50 ep. How low could this guy get? People usually scammed with supers and a thousand EPs.

It was like any one of the trades Yvaine had dealt. Put the item in and trade. She saw the skill book. It looked plain and ordinary. She looked at it. "Invisibility level: 66". The real thing. then he closed the trading box.

"y? wats wrong?" Yvaine asked.

No reply came. The trade was reopened. A book was put in. the 7 mill was offered. And they made the trade. Yvaine opened her bag, ecstatic, to see a windbeads skill book. Scammed. She felt like a loser. By the time she noticed it was too late. He was already gone. She should have got the emerald robe.

It was surprising how people could stoop so low. Today is one of those bad days. She said in her mind. She never thought she`d get scammed. Maybe buying the emerald robe might cheer her up. Feel pretty.

A familiar warrior caught the sight of Yvaine. NightLord. By that time they were already good friends. She promised to return the favor of him saving her in Dark Marsh. An idea struck her. She could ask NightLord to protect her, she`d pay him anyway. So she wouldn`t owe another favor to her conscience.

"Could you please help me? I got scammed. I need another 7 mill. can u help me do a delivery? She begged.

"Really? How? U want me to chase him down?" NightLord said, concerned.

"No thanks. Its just 5 mill. Im ok" She said.

"What were u planning to buy anyway?" He said.

"Well, there was this emerald robe I was hoping to buy from a guy peddling. But I`d rather earn the money." Shyly she said.

Maybe he had to do something important. Warriors were always like that.

"brb" He said as he disappeared through the crowd.

She was asking a favor, so she forced herself to wait. A few moments passed, a few people offering to buy her WarriorCute, WOOO!

NightLord came back and gave her the gown.

"What? I didn`t tell you to buy it for me." She said, surprised.

"I wanted 2. I sold my starblessing to him." He said, obviously smiling.

"U Shouldn`t have." Yvaine, feeling the familiar feeling of blushing.

":)" he replied simply.

"I`ll repay you some day. The whole 10 mill." She promised.

Now she owed him 2 favors. She tried to give him some money. But he refused. Kept saying ":)"

It was starting to become a good day.

That day, Yvaine promised herself she`d do something grand for him. Like a super sword or something. But all he replied were smileys and `hehehe`s.

King-of-paiN, the one who traded him the WindBeads skill book, came back and gave her the invisibility skill book. Turns out he was the one mistaken and he mistook the 2 skill books and had to log out in a hurry, and that he only noticed it now. He apologized.

She continued chatting with NightLord. Laughing at silly things. It was getting late so she said her goodbye`s and went on. She was about to log out when jariel, the girl who PKed earlier her told her she`d give the stuff she dropped back. It surprisingly turned out to be a good day. The people in EO aren`t really jerks.

-End of  Chapter 2-

Chapter 1: The Knight in RoseLoveBird

Chapter 3: Valiant Knights