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They left and moved few dozen steps in a random direction, before Andreas signalled Sally to stop in the alley.

"That was..."

"Weird." She finished his sentence.

"Exactly. We spent there a total of eight minutes, it was like they were trying to get rid of us as fast as possible."

She nodded, and then started to inhale loudly with her nose.

"Wait a moment, I can feel something."

Her nose led her to him, to his body. She got close with her face to his chest, carefully searching for something. When she got to his right arm, she blew some air on it. Andreas had no idea what she saw in there.

"It's a tracking spell."

"What?" He asked, sceptically.

"Magic. The elf put a spell on you for some reason."

She straightened her back and pulled away from Andreas.

"So, like, magic is real?"

"Yes." She confirmed and went to explain. "There isn't a lot of it in this world, certainly not enough to go crazy with it. But it's enough to cast simple spells like that."

Andreas just shrugged, he knew that whether he believed her or not didn't really matter.

*What should we do about it? Can we do anything about it?"

"Yes, but not here. I think we can wait until we get home. The spell isn't actively tracking you anyway, but it will respond when the caster wants it to."

"Ok. And how do you know about all that?" He crossed his arms on his chest.

She bobbed her head and laughed nervously.

"Haha, you know, just from the previous life."

Andreas gave her one, long, full of judgement look, but decided not to dig in it. If she would want to speak about it, she'd tell him.

The phone store was closer, on the other side of the street, so he bought her one that seemed quite durable. Andreas knew that new members of 'I own a modern phone' society might not know how fragile those things are.

They didn't unpack it, just threw it in the bag for which she was responsible from now on. Voigt couldn't really carry it considering his knee was constantly piercing him with pain, so the walking was already hard as it was.

Next up, they found a female clothing store. It was a popular brand, but at this hour of the day they could see barely anyone inside.

The doors slid apart to welcome then in. When they crossed into the store, they couldn't initially decide where to go first. There were multiple shop shelves for all kinds of women's attire. That's why Andreas decided to ask for help.

"I'm sorry, miss, can you help us?"

He asked a young looking employee by the name of Jenny. She was short and cute, and the fact that she barely had any visible breasts through her work uniform didn't harm the heart breaking effect that she probably had on the local boys.

"Sure, how... Oh."

She said when she looked at the Lamia.

"We need a few sets of clothing for this lady over here." He pointed at Sally.

Jenny blinked twice, but then she got her head back in the game.

"Of course, I'll be happy to help you."

"Great." Andreas gave her a warm smile. "When you are doing that, is there any place for me to sit down?"

He pointed at his cane.

"Right, sir. It's near the fitting rooms."

Voigt just went there and sat on his chair.

From his place he could see how Sally and Jenny are strolling through the shopping stalls and shelves, picking up more and more things to check if they fit. When they were close, he even overheard a fragment of one of the conversations they had.

"... don't wear any."

"No panties at all?"

"No. I... I wouldn't know how to fit them on me. That's why the outfits have to be long enough so they cover up... You know."

"Right. And they can't curl up either."

"Yes, it would be best if I didn't... Show off things in public."

"Of course. Just follow..."

He didn't hear any more until maybe fifteen minutes later. Jenny was pushing a small cart with a lot of clothes on it.

"We're going to check now what fits and what doesn't." She said. "Miss Sally has a unique physique, so we have to fit every piece of clothing."

They went inside the fitting room and spent nearly half an hour there. Andreas caught himself nearly drifting away to a nap state when finally, the worker went out.

"After figuring out the size, we picked out a few outfits. Miss Sally will show them now."

Andreas sighed, silently wishing for this all to be over. He hates waiting in the stores like that. And he just wanted to go home already.

"I-I'm coming out."

He heard a familiar voice.

Then he saw her in a bright, long, summer dress which perfectly complimented her figure, and matched the colour of her scales. It also showed how impressive were her breasts. All of that made him gasp.

She looked absolutely stunning.