#good morning & welcome to another thread starring two pinkhaired ladies!

[verticordiia]

nobody had pretended that this would be easy,  and somehow,  this had annoyed her even more.  there had been so many glances,  worried and worrying at the same time,  and sherry had wanted to scream.  it had bubbled up inside of her and almost,  almost it would have burst,  but she had always aimed for flawless self-control and this had not failed her there,  at least.

she had not seen delma in years.  she had not heard from her,  had not heard of her.  she was thankful for the woman’s  ( it was strange,  so very strange not to think of her as an older girl )  teachings and she was thankful for how far they had allowed her to go,  but she had not spent the past ten years thinking about her daily.  she had hardly thought about her at all until ooba-sama had sat her down in the office and asked her to please retrieve the books delma had taken when she had  . . .   left.   become a ghost.

it was an s-ranked intra-guild assignment because of course it was.  it meant that at the very least,  the pay was good and if sherry were in a better mood,  she would have been entertained by the thought of ooba-sama having to get the approval to cash out such a hefty reward from carolina-sama and by the knowledge that carolina-sama tended to be stingy when it came to these assignments.  alas,  her mood was sour as she looked out of the window as the trees outside got less and less blurry as the train slowed.

‘ ‘ we will split the reward seventy-thirty, ’ ’ she said as she folded her coat and shoved it into her backpack, ‘ ‘ because i think this will be a bigger hassle for you than for me.  and, well,  because it is my teacher we are on a wild goose chase for. ’ ’

@killrate​!!