The pawn shop.

Ekibe took off her crown, what remained of her life as a princess, and looked it over for several minutes. Then she clenched it hard, stood up, and started to jog down a nearby alleyway. Dashing around tight corners and through small open areas, being careful as to not be seen and bothered by the common folk. Over time the building had changed from lavish homes to modest stores then to run down hovels and seemingly abandoned structures.

She came to a halt and rested up against the side of a building on the edge of a shaded alley. Inhaling and exhaling as she peeked out to see a busy market street lined with various stores. The one that caught her eye through was a pawn shop across the way in an unoccupied, dark alcove. The trickiest part of getting there would be being unseen by all the pedestrians milling about the stalls and shops as a naked woman, especially a princess, would not go unnoticed.

Carefully Ekibe crept out from the alley and hid behind a row of pots, looking over to see an unmanned stall nearby. She waited until a customer distracted the merchant and that no one was looking as she crossed the street. Swiftly moving as she struggled to hold her titanic breasts in her arms then jumping into the empty stall. She kneeled and looked about, seeing that she was unseen so far and that her goal was just down the street.

The stall she currently occupied seemed to sell paintings, cheap but big enough to hide her if held up in front of her. Ekibe grabbed the biggest, one depicting a woman of a similar resemblance laying naked on a bed surrounded by fruit, and held it by the top of the frame. Slowly moving along the open gap between stalls and completely hidden from the front, she made it to the next set of merchants and stopped.

She took yet another peek at her surrounding to see many merchants busy with their customers and a clear path behind them to the alcove. Grasping the frame again, Ekibe started to move until she heard a pedestrian shout, "Oh! Look at that!" Ekibe cowered behind the painting, "That is a great painting you have there! How much is it? I must have it!"

The merchant replied, "I don't remember having such a thing in my inventory...but I'll sell it to you for four hundred nix."

"Thats a little steep. Hmmm, how about two hundred?"

"Three fifty nix"

"You merchant's are stingy folk. Three hundred nix and that is as high as I'll go."

The merchant smiled, "You have a deal my friend, hand me the money and I shall fetch it for you." Ekibe shivered with fear as the man handed the merchant a handful of coins that the latter began to count out. When he finished Ekibe would surely be found and humiliated even further, so she decided to abandon the painting and duck into another alleyway. "Ah this is quite the piece indeed my friend!", said the merchant as he picked up the painting and handed it to its new owner.

"Yes it just speaks to me. This woman looks a lot like our princess Ekibe, doesn't it? I always wanted to have that stuck up wench like this on my bed," said the man as he turned the painting around for the merchant to see.

He took a second to look it over before saying, "I do see it now my friend, what a bitch she was. Any man would be glad to shut her mouth up if you know what I mean." The two men laughed and Ekibe curiously looked around the corner to see for herself and realized that somone had indeed painted her in such a fashion. She scowled and returned to the alley to formulate a new route to the pawnshop, and luckily the alley contained a set of stairs to the nearby rooftops.

She quickly climbed the stone steps to the warm adobe roofs, making her way across them without faultering. Reaching the edge of the last roof, she saw the alcove down below with no way down unless she jumped. A small blue awning directly below would easily break her fall, so she went straight ahead after making sure no one had view of the alcove. Much to her dismay, Ekibe did not land on the awning soundly, but instead fell straight through it and landed on her big brown ass. She stood up and rubbed her now sore bum, but the her crash was not unheard.

"Hey, did you hear that?", came a voice from the market.

"Yes. It sounded as if something fell over there. We should make sure everything is okay," said another. Ekibe jumped and began slowly, but surely, making her way toward the pawn shop door. She pulled the red wooden door open and ducked inside before she could be seen by the incoming bystanders.

Inside the pawnshop it was dark, with only a few days of light seeping in from cracks in the windows. Ekibe moved at odd the creaky wooden floor toward the counter where no one stood among the various objects that sat about the shelves. She looked around to see wondrous and strange items occupying the rest of the store then back to the counter where two candles lit to reveal an old bearded man.

Ekibe gave out a small shriek and covered herself berated the man with her usually angry look. "Welcome my dear, to the pawn shop mystical wonders," he said before speaking aside, "and horrors..." Her face could not help but give off her inner wonder,"It seems you don't have much to...pawn my dear..." With that she looked down and grew red with emabarassment as the man gazed at her beautiful form.

"I am here," she spoke as she moved behind a shelf,"to sell my crown." Ekibe moved hands away, safe behind the self, and held out her crown as far she should yet still far from the counter.

"Yes, this might be worth something. Come here so I may appraise it." Ekibe shyly came out from her cover, holding her breasts again in one arm, holding out the crown with her free hand, and locking her legs together to hide her young virgin pussy. The grey haired, wrinkly, old man took the crown, allowing Ekibe's hand to cover her naughty bits, and looked over the gold ring imebeded with various precious gems.

"So what do you think you could give me? I know your mere poor peasant store couldn't afford much, but this is the crown jewel of the desert. Worn by royalty of this land for thousands of years."

The old man looked up from the crown to the goregous nude woman in front of him with a look of contempt. "This is fake," he said without emotion then tossed the crown into spike of junk in the corner of the store. Ekibe's jaw dropped in utter astonishment, "I can't give you much, but it is a good fake that I can give you something for."

Ekibe was still in shock, "But! But! But that is the crown passed down by my family for generations!"

"No, it's a fake swapped out by a thief a long time ago," replied the old man as he reached under the counter to pull out another crown," I've had the real one for about fifty years." Ekibe was dumbfounded by this shocking revelation that she now had even less than she did before. "Don't worry girl, I can still give you...one hindered nix for it. And you know what? I'll throw in this robe for free, as I assume you'll want to hide your gracious form."

The old man stare deeply at Ekibe as he held out a ragged and dusty robe which she swiftly grabbed and put on, leaving the hood down for now. Her body was now competition hidden under the old cloth, except for her delecate feet all the way at the bottom. Next she was handed a small sack containing a few coins which she tied to the thin rope holding her robe together at the waist.

"Now girl. That will last you a few nights here in the slums if you only spend it on room and food. I would be glad to let you stay here in the room below my shop if you'd like, but I understand if you need space. You're going to need some work though if you're going to get anywhere. You can gamble at the local dens and bars, but that hasn't worked for you so far has it? Although there are other places I know of where you can earn some money." The old man waited her response as Ekibe thought over what he had said, ignoring the fact he somehow knew how she ended up here in the first place.