Looking for a friend (open)

[dantieduurden]

As Dantie finished cleaning out his room that he had livid in for the past 50 years a sad frown came upon his face. " So many good memories here." Dantie sighed as he looked out his window overlooking the city state of the riders below. Never again would he see this place, unless he became a rider, for in a month him and his mentor would move back to the world of the elves. " I have only two choices, to become a rider, or gain the yawe. Only then shall I be able to protect my family." Dantie sighed as he turned back around and finished packing. On his bed lay a beautiful Bastard sword that was given to him upon graduation for his high achievements through out his years inside the school. In the pommel of the blade was a garnet gem, and the hilt was wrapped in leather. It was a great gift, one of the greatest gifts one could get that was not a rider themselves.
Silently he strapped the blade to his belt and picked up his backpack, placing it across his back and then walking out his door for the last time. Darek would be waiting for him at his home to arrive and get ready to depart for the elf capital. Until then Darek would have time to pick up a few trinkets and try once to apply to become a riders apprentice. If he was denied he would leave for his home land and make do with what he could. As he walked out the door of the great citadel he turned back to look up at its majesty. As he stepped back to look up at his old rooms window, the highest a student could get up into the citadel, he bumped into a person knocking a few belongings out of his bag, but before they hit the ground he caught them in his hands in a graceful turn and put his two first fingers to his lips and spoke in the ancient language the common greeting. Once he was done he said " I am so sorry, I did not hurt you did I?" Dantie asked as he held out his hand to the person he had bumped into.

[Elloria]

Niko leaned close to the window of a small curio shop not far from the Citadel. He had, of late, begun collecting various knick-knacks from around the city. His small villa felt too large, too empty. He blamed visiting Addison’s home for that. Seeing how spartan that tiny attic room was, he’d begun to note how spartan his own living arrangements were. And for some bizarre reason, it made him want to fill the villa up. He would have to put a stop to it eventually. But for now, it wasn’t like he didn’t have the funds to waste on something so frivolous. And where was Addison anyway? This was supposed to be some sort of shopping trip with the two of them, but the angel had wandered off somewhere - leaving Niko to stare at random shop windows and consider buying useless items of vague interest.

Musing on this, he straightened up - and nearly lost his balance as someone rudely bumped into him. As he caught himself, he heard the common greeting between elves and an apology. He brushed himself off and looked at the young elf standing across from him. He didn’t recognize him at all, but judging by the pack on his back he was either just arriving or had just finished his education and this was the final look. Most students took at least one last look around Ilirea before leaving it - either for a while or for good.

After a moment, he returned the greeting, but did not take the elf’s hand. “No, I’m quite all right. I do ask, however, that you try to pay closer attention to where you are going.” The quiet rumble of his voice held no harshness as he spoke. “Not everyone in Ilirea is quite so understanding of small mishaps.” He knew that from experience. The first few weeks in Ilirea had been spent in the infirmary more often than not because of fights in the streets of the city.

[ladymoth]

» Addison walked up behind Niko and peered around elf’s arm to look at Dantie. There was a foot and two inches between their heights. Addison was nineteen years old, or five hundred and fifty, or one, depending on which ever way you looked at it but whichever way you cut it there seemed to be about five years difference between the two friends. Addison came out from behind Niko to reveal that he had been carrying a box full of pasty buns, something he insisted on going back for. “Oh, are you a new rider?” He asked excitedly. Dragon’s did not really appreciate angels or their help but that didn’t stop Addison from finding them exiting and alluring animals, on the contrary he found them all the more exciting because he rarely got to see one close up. “Niko was going to become a dragon rider too but then he got too old and gave up” Addison added, just for the sake of adding the conversation, he had a bad habit of doing things like that.

He also spoke far too fast, one would think that he was a normal human rushing about to do human things without enjoying the moment, but nothing was farther from the truth; Addison thought the same as elves, he preferred to do things slowly and immaculately way as too enjoy himself… he just talked fast. “None of my friends are dragon riders you know but some of my clients are, and some of my clients are dragons as well. Their voice echoes in your head, it sounds so animal, weird. Can yours talk yet?” Addison assumed it couldn’t, because he was moving his things, it might have just hatched. "Oh I'm Sorry, My name is Addison but everyone calls me Addi, and this is Niko and he's a scholar at the citadel."

[dantieduurden]

Dantie took his hand back as he saw that the man he had bumped into would not take it. After hearing what Niko had to say Dantie smiled at the man and said " Thank you for the advice. I have livid here all my life and I'm still learning the rules." Dantie said honestly. For he had livid there since he was 5. And until he was 20 he had livid with Darek his mentor and been trained at his home inside Ilirea. Only after that had he been sent into the citadel like all elf children were to get there teachings taught to them, as well as magic, and swordplay. Both of which Dantie excelled at. It was only knowledge that alluded him. For no matter how much you had, you never knew it all. And that was one of the many reasons Darek had put in to be a rider. To learn from not only all the races that could speak, but from the dragons, who's there minds were more a riddle then his own he thought.
Dantie was just getting ready to apologize for not again paying attention to the man and spacing out a bit when his eyes focused on the fair skinned man on the side of him.Though the child looked 16, Dantie felt an inner strength within him and much knowledge. That is until he opened his mouth and began to ramble. " No Addison, sadly I am not a rider yet. I have just graduated top of my class from the school here." Then Dantie turned to Niko with a new fire in his eyes, " I knew that robe looked familiar. I am so sorry Master Niko." Dantie said for a scholar to him was a master to all, for you could always learn from a scholar. " I wish to better my friends and family is all, and if a rider is the path I must take to do this then I shall but...to say that it is my only option open at the moment no. Knowledge is power and logic is needed to use power. So you could say that I would be a wanderer looking for a home. Where most people find that leaving the citadel answers all there questions, it only opened up mine and focused my mind better to understand the importance of knowledge, and the asking of questions. Like why are you so fair skinned Addi?" Dantie asked, not to be rude, but to better understand. After all he had never seen anyone so pale before besides in books and they were evil shades that should be purged from the world the book said. But to Dantie they were merely another step up on the learning ladder. To understand life, you must understand death first. As he liked to say.

[Elloria]

Niko turned his head slightly to find Addison standing beside him, holding a box. It looked like it was full of pasty buns - something the angel seemed very fond of. They were savory enough, but Niko had never been fond of sweet things. And now he was rapidly babbling, as he always did when excited. He gave an inward sigh. He'd spent enough time with the angel by now to know that his thoughts weren't quite as rapid-fire as his speech. Addison was very precise and exacting in almost everything he did - but his mouth ran faster than a dragon flew. He gently nudged the angel as he was introduced to the elf across from them. “You’re babbling again,” he murmured. He wasn't chiding Addison, per se, but sometimes the angel would get going and say far too much. Like he just had.

He turned back to the young elf and raised an eyebrow. Master Niko? He was hardly a master of anything, merely a scholar. But he'd had a similar mindset after graduating - not quite at the top of the class, but close enough. “Hmmm...well, you're right. Knowledge is power and logic the key to using it. Still, I would be happier upon the back of a dragon than hunting through the Library. I love the Library, but nothing can quite replace first-hand experiences. I sometimes wish I had traveled more after graduating.” He shrugged, then sighed. “But that’s the past, isn’t it? What is your name, if I may ask? You obviously know me, but I’m afraid I don’t recognize you in the slightest.”

[ladymoth]

» Addison in took a sharp breath fiddled with the strap of his carrier bag while he waited and listened. Okay, he did babble, but Niko was so mean about it. Okay, no Niko was very kind and polite but somehow his words stabbed, god knows why. “why am I so pale?” Addison didn’t know the answer to this question, “Well back before I died I never went outside and I was sick all the time, so I was pale then, and this time around I find I can’t do anything but get sun burns. I mean the fallen side of me is all kinds of tan but I don’t know where that came from either, I think it it’s mean to symbolize by “dark evil soul” or something, I wasn’t the one who designed it” Addison said the words “dark evil soul” in very exaggerated dripping sarcasm. He answered the rest of the question surpassingly slowly, not sure what that question had to do with anything about anything, but then again that’s probably how people felt when he started rambling.

He felt bad about mistaking the elf as a rider “You should be a rider” Addison piped up “you’re top of your class, not everyone can say that” he opened his mouth to say something else but then he reminded himself that he was a rambler and fell, taking to poking one of the buns and licking the sugar of his index finger. It occurred to him that Niko and the boy should have known each other. Niko being Niko was probably too busy with his head in a book to notice any of the new faces. “I’m sure..” Addison began with the air of someone who hadn’t quite grabbed at what they wanted to say, but still wanted to talk anyway “that we will be hearing a lot about him soon, if he’s the top of his class.” Addison was talking about Dante in the same way a mother might talk to another mother about their child doing a good drawing. Addison was too old to be truly impressed by yet another Elf who could fence and cast spells.

[dantieduurden]

Dantie listened to Niko speak kindly to his friend Addi as he liked to be called and felt a small bond open between them. Not enough to call them friends, but surly enough not to call them strangers either. " My name is Dantie Du Urden, First of my class as the sword strapped to my belt shows." Dantie said matter of faculty as if it would have been obvious to an elf, let alone a scholar to know such a thing.After all wasn't it there job to record events that happened after all.

That is when Addi chimed in answering Danties questions in more riddles. " If I understand what you are saying correctly then you are either a shade or an angel. If you were a shade though the riders would not allow you here so that must mean..." Dantie trailed of as he thought of the implications of the knowledge he had just gleamed from all the rambling.

“You should be a rider. You’re top of your class, not everyone can say that.” Dantie then watched as Addi opened his mouth to say something else but then caught himself, and instead began poking one of the buns and licking the sugar of his index finger. “I’m sure..” Addison began “that we will be hearing a lot about him soon, if he’s the top of his class.”

" Thank you for your kind words Addi. But if I may be so bold as to ask, dose this mean the legends are true about feathered people up in the sky that do good for all the world?" Dantie asked. Addi and Niko had just opened up pandora's box, for once Dantie got started asking questions he never stopped. " O please come to my house and tell me off the wonders. I must know." Dantie pleaded with the two hoping to gain some knowledge from the two of them. An angel after all would have to be a vast collection of knowledge. And knowledge is what he wanted more then anything at the moment.

[Elloria]

“Hmmm...perhaps. Nelian was the top of my class. She went on to gain great renown during the Blue Divide. Unfortunately she also died during that terrible war. Let us hope that such a fate does not befall this young elf. Who’s name I am still not recalling,” Niko replied casually. That much-coveted spot had almost been his. If he had only been a bit better at magic, Nelian would not have received the prized bastard sword. On the other hand, if that had been the case he would probably be dead now, not her. There were always such consequences to consider. As he drifted off down memory lane for a brief moment, he vaguely heard the elf ask that they go to his house. He wasn't out to fraternize, really. He was just wandering around window-shopping. With Addison. Who liked to drag him around and chatter away while Niko followed along with a modicum of patience. So really, it was going to be up to Addison if they went or not. Niko didn't particularly care one way or the other, though if pressed he would prefer to continue meandering through the markets. He looked over at Addison, who was currently licking sugary frosting from his index finger. He took the bun that Addison had mostly wiped clear of frosting and bit into it. He closed his eyes and smiled. It was warm and not too sweet, now that the frosting was gone. He swallowed and wiped the corners of his lips with his thumb to catch any stray frosting and licked it clean. When he'd finished that, he said, “I suppose we could, if Addison wishes to.”

[ladymoth]

» “awe!” Addison said watching his bun vanish into Niko’s mouth, he was nearly ready to eat it. “I do” Addison said with a sigh. “Well, anyway-” he said perking up almost immediately as they began walking in the direction Dantie had been going; Addison didn’t know the way but he seemed to be leading. “There are indeed Angels who go around doing good in the world; though good is rather subjective” Addison added “I mean most of the things we did were in order to keep the peace but we weren’t really looking for a long term goal so sometimes when we saved a life we kind of lost an entire battle!” Addison told Dantie with a grave tone in his voice. He always went through a range of emotions when he looked back on his past “but we weren’t world-wide, all the angels I knew were from Alagasia the same as me. I assumed that there were other angels in other countries.”

Addison bumped his shoulder into a woman passing in the street; which was rare because he usually walked with his shoulders rounded in purposely trying not to take up space “sorry” Addison said in a mumble, and the woman mumbled sorry back. “-And I don’t think we were in the sky either, though the term is fallen and there were a lot of clouds, I don’t think we were ever in a place you could find by flying on a dragon.” Addison slowed down and put his hand on his hip where his carrier bag usually hung, it wasn’t there. Addison turned around to see the woman dashing though the crowd with his bag.

[ladymoth]

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▓▒▓▒▓▒▓▒░▒░▒░░ Ilirea; the big forbidden fruit of Alagasia, It was the one place where Ed`s master-mind didn’t stand of the crowd. Ed` had been traveling around, ticking off things from her list. She had traveled by Ilirea thrice now without entering it. Ilirea was home of the riders, and the riders were the enemy; but Ed` was nothing if not curious. She needed to see the city for herself. Her family would have never dreamed of setting foot in the rider’s strong hold, but that’s what today’s exercise was all about; breaking the rules.

Now Ed` was a moral, upright citizen who prided herself in doing, mostly, the right thing; but today she felt impish. She had never broken a rule in her life, save for when she ran away from home, and now she was going to try the life of crime on for size. Ed` planned it all out; she would do it in Ilirea- the city was so big it was probably used to a little purse snatching. She would get close to her victim under the pretense of bumping into them, preferably a human because Elves commonly had the sense to move out of the way, and then she would run as soon as their back was turned to her.

That’s how it all went down as well; she picked a human walking in front of two elves, and then began to dash away as soon as they had passed. She was shocked that it had worked! Disturbed even! Was crime really so easy? What was in this bag, it was so light. It might have been important documents or personal notes, what if this person had to start their thesis all over again because of her? Ed`s master-mind was working against her. Every step she took her bare feet patted against the ground and said “Theif! Felon! Crook! Hood!” Her master-mind came to it’s conclusion at the end of the road; she was a bad thief.

[dantieduurden]

Dantie was extremely pleased with the out come and was about to thank Addi when his eyes caught on a dark skinned elf. He watched as both her and Addi bumped into each other. Slowly his brain worked as he saw her take Addi's bag. Outcome of there decision as Addi agreed to come to his home. Now he could extract much knowledge from the two, thus learning more things that could one day help him protect his friends and family. " So are you saying that the angels could have stopped the war and they choose not to, instead to let the destruction and war that happened to happen." Dantie asked as he saw a woman walking towards them.

Danties eyes became transfixed on the dark skinned elf as he watched her coming down walking towards them and was about to tell Addi to move when she bumped into the angel. But what Dantie noticed before Addi was that she had stolen his bag. " Kona Letta." Dantie said in the ancient language, infusing his magic with it as he ran after the women, telling her to stop." It was only minutes before he finally caught up to her, not knowing if he had the others with him or not he stepped forward and said. " Give me the bag and we both can be on our way. Resist and I will have to bring you to the riders. I am Dantie Du Urden top of my class, and soon to be rider. Son of Jessica Du Urden and Rio Du Urden watchers of the forest. And apprentice to the great Darek Von Cleft. I will use force to take the bag from you if I must." Dantie said as he unsheathed his masterwork bastered sword that was a blood red color and had the word, Destroyer written in the ancient language on its blade.

[Elloria]

Niko followed slightly behind Addison and the elf, not really paying attention to what Addison was saying. His eyes were trained on the windows, casually glancing at more knick-knacks. He'd heard some of this already and none of what he heard was surprising or particularly interesting. He paused outside one window, noticing an elegant and intricately detailed carving of a green dragon. Whoever had done this had almost perfectly captured the beauty and elegance of the mighty being. His hand strayed to the window, fingers pressing longingly against the glass. He had to have it. He turned to call out to Addison, who had Niko's money pouch in his carrier bag, and was surprised to see a woman running past him - carrying Addison's bag. He stared after her for a moment, stunned. And then the elf - Dantie! Now I remember. Melatoth mentioned that he'd asked to be allowed to test the eggs - ran past, demanding the elf woman stop.

Niko looked back to find Addison still looking blankly where his carrier bag should be, just a few feet ahead. He stepped closer, took Addison's hand, and took off after Dantie while pulling Addison with him. He didn't run quite as quickly so that Addison could more easily keep up, but he did his best to not lose sight of Dantie and the woman either. A few minutes later, he had caught up with them to find Dantie drawing his sword and demanding the return of the bag. Niko raised an eyebrow as he surveyed the woman. She had exotic dark skin, speaking of hours spent beneath the burning sun, and large grey eyes. She didn't have the typical beauty of an elf maiden, but she certainly wasn't ugly either. If she hadn't just stolen both Addison's bag and his own money pouch, he might have found her appealing. As things stood, he was more than a little irritated and disgusted. Judging by her clothes and other accessories, she didn't need to steal anything to get by. “Allow me to repeat the request, madam. Please return the bag. I doubt its theft will be of any benefit to you, for there is little of value in it. Moreover, you don’t look as though you needed to steal anything in the first place.”

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▓▒▓▒▓▒▓▒░▒░▒░░ Ed` waited for Dantie to get to her. She gave him a once over, he was younger than she was but his eyes looked very old, he was chivalrous, a gentleman- overly so. “Gracious, your title is even longer than mine” Ed` said sourly, looking at the sword but not moving to give him the bag. “I was unaware that one could hold the title ‘soon to be rider’, isn’t that the dragon’s choice to make?” She spoke in a well to do manner, stiff as a board, as if she were at the dinner table of a respected member of the royal family; it made her cold and distant, and that’s how she wanted it to be.

She waited for Addison and Niko to arrive. She listened to what Niko had to say and smiled slightly, very slightly, was it a smile? Then she got down on one knee and bowed her head reaching the bag up for Addison to take. “Please forgive me, it was a foolish experiment and you were its victim, I apologize from the bottom of my heart.” she held herself in the bow stiffly, then after a moment she flicked her wrists and shook the bag as if to remind Addison to take it from her.

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Addison, who had been trying to come to terms with the situation in his mind (he never dealt with hardship well,) Took the bag from Ed` and nodded “It’s alright” Addison said, looking concerned for the sake of the thief now, his heart did bleed for everyone. “You did the right thing in the end, you’re one of the good guys” Addison patted Ed` on the shoulder and she nodded and stood up. “You’re not from around here are you, why don’t you come with us to Dantie’s house and tell us what that was all about?” Addison’s bleeding heart was making him impose on Dantie’s hospitality but he didn’t seem to notice. Ed` noticed however, and she gave Dantie a side long glance.

[dantieduurden]

Dantie listened to what the dark skinned elf had to say, wrapped in her gold though he knew she did not need to steal, for selling merely one peace of her jewelry would have brought around more then enough money to survive for a while. When she was finished speaking Dantie said in not a cruel voice but one that was filled with conviction. " One knows what they shall become by there deeds in life. " Dantie said as Niko and Addi finally arrived.

After Addi, Niko, and Ed's exchange of words and Niko and Addi got there belongings back Dantie Sheathed his sword and said to Addi's previous comment. " I care not if she comes or not, but know this," Dantie said to Ed' " If you try to take anything from this house you wont get away so easily." And with that Dantie began walking in the direction they had originally came from. " It is not far from where you tried to rob my friends." Dantie said in a more gentler voice then one would have expected from the boy who had just chased a thief down and held them at sword point, the drastic change, to those who did not know him well would appear odd. As if his mind was full of chaos, and yet was held together with such power, as if at any moment he could unleash a wilder more violent side that cared for nothing but justice in his eyes.

" So what is your name stranger?" Dantie asked as he began to walk backwards, opening up his mind so that he would not bump into anyone while he walked backwards. A small glint was in his eye, as if he was living in her beauty and watching her every move, cataloging it for future reference. As he had been doing to Addi and Niko when first they meet.

[Elloria]

Niko gently plucked Addison's bag from the angel's grasp and rummaged in it briefly before finding his pouch. Pulling it out, he tucked it away in his robes and handed the bag back to Addison. The original reason for wanting the pouch had fled his mind already. All he could think was that this would be the last time he let Addison keep hold of his money. It was nothing against Addison, but the angel could be so remarkably absentminded and unobservant - so trusting. It was somewhat endearing, usually. Not quite so much when it nearly lost him two hundred gold coins. He could afford it, of course. But two hundred pieces of gold was nothing to sniff at.

Niko silently followed Dantie, keeping track of Addison out of the corner of his eye. He would rather the angel didn't begin babbling again. It was more tolerable for a recent graduate to know a bit about his past - but not a complete stranger. Especially this little...experimenter. She was beautiful, but he no longer trusted her. She could very easily stray any way she chose, he could feel it. Not much different from the sense he now felt when near Dantie. How easily he had switched from holding a sword to a woman's throat to welcoming her into his home. It was an ironic thought, since he had a similar tendency. But it is easy to gloss over personal shortcomings and magnify those same flaws in others. “Where’s your house, again?” he asked mildly, not paying particularly close attention to the conversation.

[ladymoth]

(Niko is smart, but not smart enough to know what irony is.)

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▓▒▓▒▓▒▓▒░▒░▒░░ “Maid Edoc'silmati Ekarlaufsbläd of Du Andlatlíf daughter of Raudhr Ekarlaufsbläd, the Archduke of Du Andlatif, but Ed` is usually what people refer to me as ” Ed` replied as she watched Niko take back his coin purse, she must have made the elf wary. She made no sign that she heard any of Dantie’s threats, or if she did she cared little about them. She was every bit the emotional politician as he was. Addison snickered suddenly, Ed` turned to him looking perplexed.

“Sorry” Addison said putting his bag back over his shoulder “it’s just that Ed is name for human boys” he informed them.Ed` raised her eyebrows and nodded to show she thought that fact amusing and continued walking with them. That boy with the sword walked backwards, reaching his mind out to make sure he didn’t step into anyone. Ed` found this cocky, and an intrusion of privacy. She had shut her mind to him as soon as she felt it. “How would you like it if I used your mind as a compass?” she asked aloud, “deloi reisa.” She said suddenly lifting up one of the cobble stones from the street behind Dantie’s foot so that he would trip on it. He could see where people were, but not the rocks. Funny, she wasn't normally so bold, she didn't know what came over her.

[dantieduurden]

Dantie watched as Niko got his bag keeping an eye on the woman especially as she blocked of her mind. And that is when he heard her chant in the ancient language. From the clam demeanor he had the fury that was trapped inside once again came straight to the surface. " thryst kalvis!" Dantie growled as he used magic to thrust the rock at her calves. Then he quickly followed up by saying" huildr Du Kona!" Making it so bands of magic would be cast around her to hold her in place, hoping that she did not know the correct counter spell. As he was doing this his blade came out, sliding beautifully out of its sheath and into his hand. " You should learn well your place. And what you speak of ignorant fool." Dantie growled a bestial growl out towards the woman. " If you were trained properly and had listened to all you were taught you would know what I'm doing is not invading peoples mind to use as my compass, but seeing there life forces so that I stay out of there way." Dantie was no longer in a good mood. The woman had far exceed his normal kindness, luckily though Darek was in the streets outside of the shop that had once had the green dragon sculpture in it that was now in his belonging.

"Dantie what are you doing." Darek said to the boy. Darek was himself quite tall for his race standing a little over six feet tall, his long black hair was tied back in a pony tail, as was the fashion of nobles and such.

[Elloria]

Niko's head whipped around as he felt magic suddenly surge up from in front of him. “Stonr letta,” he called out, halting the stones that had flown towards the strange woman. “What do you think you’re doing?” he demanded of Dantie. This was an outrage. Anyone who had lived in Ilirea for any length of time ought to know offensive magic was prohibited. This was a city of peaceful academia. Just because it also housed the Riders did not mean it was open for all-out magical brawling. Ilireans were better than that. Niko’s tone was icy and his words became harsh as he further admonished Dantie. “Sheathe your sword this instant and release this woman. The use of offensive magic is prohibited within the walls of Ilirea. You, a graduate of the Citadel, should know this well.” He strode forward and placed himself between the woman and Dantie. He glared up at the taller elf, his normally bright silver eyes now dark as storm clouds. “A thief she may be, but to assault a visitor to the city without just cause is disgraceful. You embarrass yourself, your mentors, and your fellows with this behavior. Now sheathe your sword.”

He crossed his arms and waited for Dantie to obey when his attention was caught by a short elf. Shorty addressed Dantie - apparently they were friends or something like that. However, Shorty had something that jogged Niko's memory. The green dragon he'd wanted earlier! Well damn, now he was stuck wasn't he? He couldn't very well move from in front of the woman; Dantie still had his blade drawn. On the other hand, he wanted that dragon. Cursed conundrums. Hopefully Shorty wouldn't leave any time soon and he would be able to buy it from him. It really was a beautiful sculpture, after all.

[ladymoth]

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Addison yelped and dashed behind Niko again, why was it what everyone had to fight in this place? And anyway… “You’re kind of being a hypocrite” Addison whispered up to Niko, but Niko seemed to be staring at something; a carving of a dragon. ‘Oh how these living beings do covet things’ Addison thought as he ran his hand over the sleeve on his arm, elven made fabric dyed cerulean; his fifth most favorite top. Addison’s eyes went to Darek, perhaps the elf could alleviate the situation.

Everyone seemed to be staring at the shorter elf. Ed` stuck her tongue out at Dantie then put it back in. “Why must to rush your emotions so fast and flippantly Dantie, are you too simple to feel more than one emotion at once?” Ed` stepped back so that the swords point wasn’t directly under her chin. She put her hands up to her Sari and adjusted it, though it didn’t need adjusting. “I never had any magical training” Ed` informed him “I didn’t know that was possible.” She bowed again, but only her head; she had little respect for this young elf.

“great,” Addison said loudly “she said she was sorry, can we all put our weapons away now?” Ed` had said no such thing, but Addison was eager to stop the fighting, he made himself hear a sorry where there was none. “I’m Addison, everyone calls me Addi” Addison said leaning across Niko’s waist to shake Darek’s hand, he was really trying to shove the fight back down to the past.

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Darek laughed as all eyes turned to him. " Why do all of you look at me, I'm sure at least two of you are older then I." Darek laughed a hearty laugh before looking at Dantie. "Calm my apprentice, this emotion dose not fit you. Remember your training with me and purge it from your body." Darek said. And as he spoke Dantie did as he was told. He slowly put the sword away and released the bonds around Ed'.

"Forgive me master." Dantie said in the ancient language as he bowed and a emotionless demeanor came over him as he reigned in the chaos that dwelled inside him, back under the layers of order that had been drilled into his very being. Next he turned to Niko and Adii. " I am sorry. It is as if the chaos of limbo is locked inside me and at times I can not always hold it back. It is one of the many reasons I seek knowledge, to better be able to control it." Dantie said as he finally turned towards Ed, a strange array of emotions going across his face all at the same time. " I ask your forgiveness my lady for I have wronged you. If you need logging or anything I will have it arranged for you." Dantie spoke softly with his head down looking at the ground for his actions.

While Dantie was apologizing to Ed' Darek shook the young angels hand. " And my name is Darek Von Cleft. But you may call me hat ever is easiest for you to remember." Darek said taking Addi's forearm and shaking it like older generations had done to show honor and respect.