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The person who called to her made her turn around, as the call had come from behind. She squinted at the other figure, knowing they were not close but not knowing who they were. Rather, she knew but she had not put a name to the face since she had always been at the Last Suppers. Isabella nodded, unsure if the other woman could see the gesture, then gave a loud bark meant for her slave. Kaoru came scurrying toward her from around the corner of her little ruin. He seemed disheveled and his pelt seemed a tad dusty from his work. That would change if the clouds were any indication of the coming rain. "行きましょう," she said to the slave, her use of the language inexperienced even though it was in her blood. The slave nodded, and did not comment on her poor accent and strangely rolled words. There was more French in her, anyway.
The two looked around the edges of crumbling buildings for stones, Kaoru finding the bigger square blocks and Isabella picking at slightly smaller oblong rocks that found their way there. Kaoru had a few bricks in his hands and they were clearly heavy as he sniffed, furrowing the bridge of his nose from the effort. Other than the mild discomfort on his face, he seemed relatively at ease with the orders for such manual labor. Isabella waved him at the other woman, wondering why he bothered to wait for the order if the load was all so heavy.
Bi-colored eyes finally took in the form of the other woman, who was dark and had the eyes of another woman she knew. "Has your home been secured, mademoiselle?" she asked genially, following behind her slave with his load, her's seeming almost pathetic in comparison. "No holes for rain?" One of Eris's daughters, she assumed, though she had been wrong before. There were plenty of dark canines residing with the Thistle Kingdom, after all.
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