“Hand it over. I earned every last cent!”
“The day a gypsy earns anything is the day I become king!”
The raven haired traveler furrowed her brows further, yanking harder at her makeshift sack that jingle with coins every time it was pulled at her end, and then the guard’s. She had been working tireless hours in the day, dancing, and fortune telling for every coin, and it’d be a snowy day in a warm, Paris summer when she willingly gave her earnings up.
"Well your highness, I think it’s time to turn down your nose. You might drown if it rains!” With a harsh sideways yank at her earnings, and a swift kick to the side the pretentious guard came tumbling down, her faithful friend, and sidekick, Djali adding his own with a back-hoofed kick before the two took off running.
It’d been the same thing, time, and time again. A different city, the same problems. One would think she’d get used to it by now, but the gypsy girl longed for a place in her travels where her being didn’t cause such an upset by the minority, or mass. Her heart thumped hard against her chest, a few coins droppings at her side though she didn’t dare stop.
Once she was sure the other guards had fell into a good distance, the sound of their footsteps behind her fading, she made a sharp turn into an alleyway, holding her breath so they wouldn’t hear the pants that released from her parted lips. A moment passed before she watched her pursuers speed by, and her breath settled. Eyes settling down at Djali, her slender hand reached behind his ear to scratch gently, a smile slowly raising at her lips. Though as soon as it came it had fled, turning into a frown, eyes narrowing, brows in a down turn as she heard the faint sound of footsteps behind her.