My little bird is now all grown up

Ethan's face twitched. "All the times she ran off, saying she had something important to take care of… don't tell me… this is the important thing?" He watched the old lady cackle and shove some pastries in her mouth. Their eyes met briefly, but she continued acting as if she did not see him.

"Well, whatever." Ethan prepared to walk away when he noticed something else. The old woman was reaching into her bag and taking out some talismans. She then handed the talismans to her friends, one for each.

"These are her important clients?" Ethan was speechless. Was he training under a random old hag?

All this time, he thought that the woman was some secretly overpowered character lying low so that she did not want to be disturbed. Or perhaps she had some powerful enemies, so he was hiding in a small city. 

He had several interesting theories about her background, but the one thing he hadn't considered was… she was just a batty old woman.