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Pearl
replied bored.
    “Staff?” Isis said and then she gasped. “You mean her staff?”
    “Yeah, it’s in a magic shop
downtown,” Plainshield said again.
    “Is that why you were with her?”
Laqiya asked Chasity Pearl.
    “Unfortunately, yes.”
    Plainshield sighed. “Surely my
company isn’t that horrible.”
    “No comment,” Chasity Pearl
replied.
    Plainshield huffed and then turned
to Nightshield. “Come one. We have to go.”
    “How about I just leave?” Chasity
Pearl asked letting her wings show and about to take off out the window.
    Plainshield stopped the woman. “No,
we need your help.”
    “What?”
    “Well Chasity, under all that
sarcasm and bored demeanor we all know you’re good at negotiating,” said
Plainshield.
    “She is?” Adria asked surprised.
    “What are we looking at, a modern
place or something of the old fashion type where the family has been running
the place for years?” Chasity Pearl asked
    “Weren’t you helping me at the
palace?” Plainshield wondered aloud.
    “Doesn’t mean I
was paying attention.”
    “The latter,
Chasity.”
    “Oh, then no can do.”
    “Why?” Plainshield asked.
    “Because they’re family has
probably had it and been guarding it for years, and
the people in shops like that are hard bargainers. You’d almost have to fight
to get that thing,” Chasity Pearl explained.
    “You won’t even try?” Nightshield
asked.
    “No.”
    “Chasity!” Nightshield snapped and then turned to Laqiya. “You’re friends with birdie.
Tell her.”
    Laqiya looked at Chasity Pearl and
then Nightshield. She shook her head.
    “No one seems to have asked me how
I feel about all this, not that you all seem to care that I don’t want to be
the White Rose. I could care less about this staff,” Laqiya decided.
    Chasity Pearl sat next to her on
the bed.
    “I’m with flower girl.”
    “Ugh,” Nightshield groaned and then
pointed to Laqiya saying, “You don’t have a choice.”
    “Because no one
gave me one.”
    “Come on Laqiya. We were going
downtown anyway,” Sakura said. “And I bet there are some nice restaurants we
can go to. Oh! There’s even this gourmet Asian restaurant. You love Asian food
right? And you’ve never seen downtown Roselyn. It’s amazing! Classic
and chic, but modern. You’re everything about that!”
    “No.”
    “But you did want to go downtown.
Think of it as a detour,” Adria pitched. “You’re getting exactly what you
want.”
    Laqiya really hated her friends…
    “ You coming Chasity?” Laqiya asked. “We’ll both be forced into this together?”
    Chasity Pearl rolled her eyes, but
didn’t protest.
    After finally managing to get her
driver to figure out where they were going, they headed downtown, towards the
shop. Sakura had been right when she said classic, chic, and modern. Downtown Roselyn
was bustling with business, people, and cute odds and ins that were typical of a larger city, but without the crowded atmosphere of New
York or Chicago. This was Laqiya’s kind of city.
    “Okay, so tell me us again why we
need to get the staff pieces?” Laqiya asked when they left the parking garage
to find the shop.
    “Well, other than the fact that it
might help you with your powers, Lady Sahajah can use them to shatter the seal
of oblivion and release The Tyrant,” Nightshield explained.
    “Who is this tyrant anyway?” Sakura
asked. “I mean, don’t you know his name.”
    “No, all we know is that she,”
Nightshield nodded to Laqiya, “sealed him in oblivion.”
    Laqiya tilted her head. “So this
guy has no name?”
    “Not that we know of,” Plainshield
replied as she paved the way between the crowds.
    People were packed into downtown
this time of day, which made it hard for the group to maneuver and stay
together to get to their destination. Finally, they arrived on the corner of a
street where there was a shabby looking brick building with a black door and a
sign on it. It read Magical Items Galore in
fancy