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The way to Camial was surprisingly not boring with the help of the music she installed on her device that kept her active in the ride to the Desert Flower of the land.

Linthea looked above the scorching sun of the deserted place wishing she could finish the whole thing fast so she can go back home or rest in the lounge with her peers, "Well I have no choice" she sighed in defeat adding a little tone before jumping down from her flying vehicle shaped like a medium size saucer. Stepping on the sandy terrain of Camial, she instantly regretted her choice of shoes as the sand easily found their way down her toes, Linthéa's face soured before she moved her foot back to cease the sands underneath it and walked carefully to find an oasis to fill her canteen.

After a few minutes of walking under the sun, she saw an oasis situated near a tall hill with palm trees and small patches of grass decorating the perimeter. Upon filling her canteen full Linthea heard loud voices behind the sandy hill and decided to climb up and see what's going on.

Her sapphire eyes grew wide at the sight as she gritted her teeth seeing the group of Rocio's pirate crew dragging a couple of dead men out their rusty ship, she hated the fact that those pirates are free to side with anyone in the war brandishing their stand to be 'neutral'. They don't pose a threat to both factions as their main focus is money but their hostages do.

From the look on the pirate captain's face, the dead man seemed to have struck his nerve, thus was dispatched and left in the desert to rot away.

"Alright, saves me the time since I know where your hideout is....tsk" Linthéa's simply shrugged as if pointing a point and skidded down the sandy hill, picking her pace back to the ship cursing at the fact that sand is already getting in her feet. She set the direction to Mercuda Station and a long ride started while being followed by a couple of sand eels swimming in a wave-like motion around the yellow colored surrounding of nothingness but sand and dark orange gorges.

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Linthéa quickly formulated a plan to enter the home base and possibly steal one bike back to her own flying vehicle. She hid behind a tall unequal stack of rocks with yellow bushed plants growing around that seemed to help hide her presence.

The dark brown haired woman looked over with a smirk plastered on her face throughout the wide electric fence that guards a large forsaken piece of ship made of metal, with some dent around possibly made by an attack and counted the rows of smaller saucer ships and techno bikes. The pirates would always relocate to any place in Camial but as always, she has strong instincts that aids her out.

She cracked her knuckles and made a smug face, "Sometimes, being neutral has its own disadvantage....This is going to be easy"

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"HELLO ANYBODY HOME?" Linthéa cheerfully yelled in front of the large wooden door as if she was only there for a family visit, knocking thrice before the door opened.

Rocio went outside with a shocked expression upon seeing her, "Well, the Orchid Princess has come to grace me with her presence?... say, what do you want with this lowly pirate, your majesty?" He faked his bow at her.

"You have something from Kayunta...yes?" Linthéa replied in a smug face in which greatly confused the pirate leader but he soon regained his thoughts.

"Did you bring any...cash?"Rocio pressed his thumb together, rubbing it as a gesture of money.

"Ah.. unfortunately I don't! Hehe~" Linthéa gave him one of her deceiving close eyed smile as she tilts her head sideways, her pompous brown hair following suit. He squinted his dull brown eyes and gave a signal.

"Boys!"

On cue, a group of men piled around them carrying firearms and blades, forming an offensive line around her

"Oh c'mon...well, someone left their post so why don't we settle this difficulty" Linthéa eyed the circle but kept her sweet smile and calm composure.

"What do you mean?"

The brunette gave them a smirk and pressed a button in her hand, in an instant four of Rocio's small floating saucers were blown to bits.

"Want more? Oh! Of course~ you have a lot to spare" her hand heavily hovered above the red dome of the device.

"Alright bitch! You're allowed to get him, just hurry and leave this bloody place!"Rulin's eyes went wide as plates and fumed at the sight of seeing his hard work get blown into small pieces, his old scarred face reddened with anger and his right eye seemed to twitch,"Cell door to the left"He heaved a big sigh.

"I always knew you were a great friend Rocio!" Thea beamed and smacked his shoulder before walking to the said direction. Some of his men couldn't understand what the hell happened and voluntarily asked to follow the girl and dispatch her.

"Boss, what's going on?"

"No, don't attack her, Princess Linthéa has her ways in getting what she wants." Rulin advised them eyeing Linthéa as she hummed her way through. "But it's even worse if that woman knew about this" His humiliation can only pale in comparison to his fear upon imagining how 'that woman' would react and at the thought of losing his money.

"We need more men, those who won't....slack off on duty, Fredgar!" Hogor called his second assistant who rushed to his side within a second.

"Bring me those scums on duty to guard my ships, I.need.them.dead!"

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When she reached the cell room Thea flipped her fans open and made a close wind attack on the metallic door to blow it open where she saw an unconscious young man possibly in the same age as she in a dark red trench coat with a black shirt underneath, wearing tight black pants.

"We don't get to see this everyday" her mind laughed about the overall fashion sense. Well speaking of Kayunta, in her defense, it's one of the places an idiot shouldn't wear trenchcoats.

"Geez"She rolled her eyes and draped one of the boy's arms around her shoulder as she shakily lifted him from the cold wooden floor and carried him out of the cell. She peered to see that no one was expecting her outside and shrugged her shoulders knowing that Rulin cleared them out for her.

"I expect a big thank you for this rescue" Linthéa turned to the man who's in a deep sleep with a thin smile before hoisting him to the samel she stole from the post.

Minutes after, she felt a slight movement infront as the stranger woke up in shock, bumping her head in his abrupt action.

"You're awake already? Don't move so much if you don't wanna fall" Linthéa whispered close for him to hear. He seemed slightly embarrassed at their current state and made a slight turn of head to give her a cold gaze of his blood red eyes.

"That's not a good first impression!" She laughed and urged the animal to move faster much to the boy's liking.

"Hang on tight!"

"Woah!--"

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Archive Log: Linthea's Smile

Thea is loved by many due to her happy smiling face and tone but some are confused as to why she is always like that but as her master, Shigemi Nobutaka would say with a thin smile ,"Just go along with her".

No one really knows the reason why.

Draft look of Linthea Seiju.