Alice the protector

A Marine Problem

After traveling for a few days, Alice checked her map and noticed that they had already passed the Greendove border, only that they had to go through a town that was on the coast.

-"Elena, Selena you have earned a break, you can go to the coastal town to shop and have fun, meanwhile I'll go to breakfast" Alice said as she took the twins out of her backpack

-"Alice!!! We are very grateful" said Selena very excited, finally Alice was treating them with respect

-"Would you like us to buy something for you?" Elena asked

-"If there are ingredients for your potions, buy them, your concoction has helped me a lot to prevent vomiting due to my pregnancy" Alice said while rubbing the lower part of her belly

-"Yes, I'm going to buy several ingredients... but... mmm" Elena said as she made a gesture with her hand indicating that she needed money

-"Oh... you really need money to buy" Alice said as she took out three bags with gold coins

-"Alice... one of those bags is still wet" Selena said very nervously as she received one of the three bags

-"I better not tell you where the bag came from" said Alice frowning

-"I can imagine" said Selena trembling as she remembered that Alice had vomited the indigestible hours ago

-"Thanks Alice, we're going shopping, see you!!!" Elena said smiling

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Elena and Selena arrived in town and they noticed him very sad, even so they went to buy at the herbalist

-"Good morning ladies, how can I help you?" asked the saleswoman

-"I have a list of herbs that I need to buy" Elena said as she handed her a paper where the herbs to make the concoctions to help Alice's pregnancy were written down

-"Very well, I think I have all of them" said the saleswoman as she began to look behind the counter for the herbs

The vendor after several minutes put the herbs on the counter

-"It's 1000 gold coins miss" said the saleswoman

-"But it's very expensive ma'am...." Elena said impressed by the price

-"Everything has become more expensive because of the curse of the town" said the seller

-"What curse?" Selena asked

-"This used to be a very prosperous town, with abundant fishing, until three months ago we fell behind in paying taxes to the queen and she used a spell to summon a creature that killed the fishermen and ate the fish causing our main source of income was lost" said the saleswoman very sorry

-"Then everything has been made more expensive because of that curse" Elena said thoughtfully

-"Can you tell me what the creature is like?" Elena asked

-"They say it has many teeth, several tentacles and a gigantic tail" said the seller

-"And how many meters do you think that creature measures?" Selena asked

-"Without the tail I think about 4 meters" said the seller

-"Mmmm Elena, we should talk" Selena said to her sister as she took her to a corner of the store

-"What's up Sister?" asked Elena wanting to know what great idea Selena had come up with

-"We have a monster in the forest that could take care of that creature, they consider us heroes and they will give us a reward or charge us a fair price for the herbs, I refuse to pay 1000 gold coins for these" Selena said while rubbing hands