A Business Trip (Open)

[Phoebe Fisher]

304 tags: open ★★★ BY PEBBLE OF GS

Stepping off the train onto the platform, Pheobe took a good look around the East City Station. It was loud and busy, full with crowds. She just had to get the earliest train from Central and get stuck in this peak-hour madness. Typical. Phee let out a small groan as she held tight to her hand luggage and pulled down her uniform skirt from riding up her-- Suddenly some man in a hurry pushed her to the side, causing her to drop everything. Clothes, files and unmentionables scattered everywhere from her luggage. Swearing under her breath, she dived to the ground and started scrambling to stuff everything back into her bag. If she had a better glimpse of who had pushed her, they would be a dead man. Once she had collected everything and got to her feet, Phoebe brushed the dirt off her royal blue uniform. Eventually she calmed down and moved away from the busy crowds to a quiet spot in a corner somewhere. She then reached into the pocket on the inside of her jacket, taking out a slip of paper and a pair of black reading glasses. She re-read the note, for about the hundredth time that morning and took another look around the station. "Now how on earth do I get to East City Headquarters from here." She muttered to herself before letting out a heavy sigh, "This is going to be a nightmare. I knew I should have asked my superiors to assign me a partner for this trip..." She was in town to work on a report for the big wigs in Central. East City was the closest major city to Ishval, so it would make sense for her to start there. Now if only she could find her way into the city and to EC Headquarters.

[Ichiro Kuroki]

As Ichiro got off the train he immediately looked around. He doubted that he'll really find anyone in need of help here unless he went to the slums, so he figured that he might as well gather some supplies before heading off to someplace else. Perhaps he would head to Reole in order to help the rebuilding that was going on over there, yeah that's what he'd do next. First things first though, he needed to gather some supplies.

Ichiro then quickly moved away from the crowds, heading towards the exit of the train station. It wasn't his first time coming here, actually it was his third. Both of the other times he had come here he had come here to gather supplies. It looked like this was going to be his third supply trip here, but it didn't really matter to him. He would simply get what he needed and leave, probably not spend much time in East City unless he met someone who needed some help.

As Ichiro walked he heard someone mutter to themselves. It was something about getting to East City Headquarters. Ichiro had walked past that place a few times in the past, it was on the way to a store he bought some of his supplies from. Ichiro turned to see who it was, a blond haired woman in a royal blue military uniform. It wasn't too surprising that it was someone from the military, as a matter of fact he would've been surprising that the person wasn't from the military.

"Excuse me," said Ichiro as he walked up to her "Are you looking for the military headquarters?"

[Phoebe Fisher]

242 tags: ichiro kuroki, open ★★★ BY PEBBLE OF GS

Looking up from the note in her hand, Phoebe turned to the Xingese man in front of her. "Um yes I am actually." she said with a small smile as she tucked both her glasses and the note back into her jacket pocket, "You wouldn't happen to know where it is by any chance?" While she waited for a response, Phee gave him a quick look over. She had seen a few Xingese people in Central City before, but she had seen none in clothing like the man was wearing. Perhaps he was part of a religion cult? Or maybe he could simply be from a sub-culture of Xing. She wasn't quite sure since her expertise didn't lie in the lands or culture of Xing, but she was starting to think that it might be interesting to look up later. The other thing besides the man's clothing that caught her attention was the sword dangling from his sash. She had heard about Xingese weaponry before during her cadet days, but she had never seen one up close before. Mind you she couldn't see the blade while it was covered by its sheath, but the handle was quite peculiar. It wasn't like the sabre, épée or foil fencing swords she had used in the past. Phoebe stared at it for a long while before turning back to the foreign man. God how she wanted to have a closer look at that sword.

[Ichiro Kuroki]

"Yeah, I do." said Ichiro once the woman asked Ichiro if he knew where military headquarters was "It's actually on the way to a store I often stop by when I'm here. I can take you there if you'd like." It was quite the coincidence, but that didn't really matter to Ichiro. He'd help this woman get to the military headquarters, and it didn't really do much of anything to his schedule because of the fact that the military headquarters was on the way there.

Ichiro noticed the woman staring at his sword. That wasn't a reaction he ran into every day, he'd noticed people glance at it before but not many stared at it for a long while. Perhaps the woman was interested in it, that wasn't exactly unusual since there probably wasn't many Xingese swords floating around in Amestris and his katana was quite different from the average Amestrian sword. If the woman was interested in it then it might be a good conversation starter. It would be a little to get to the military headquarters if they started walking now, it wouldn't hurt to strike up a conversation.

"I noticed you staring at my sword." said Ichiro "Are you interested in it?" To be honest, Ichiro fully expected the answer to be yes, but it wouldn't hurt to ask. Ichiro was prepared to answer any questions about the sword he carried with him, all he really was waiting for was the woman to ask.