A PORCELAIN WHITE CARRIAGE with a dark green door and window frames, drawn by two phantom horses travels down a well traversed dirt road.
Six occupants ride in comfort. A couple of them have nodded off.
One reads over a report about a goblin nest, led by a goblin lord.
Another is busy writing, and the last two stare absently out the windows watching the forest roll by.
The forest gives way to an open meadow. It's not long till the carriage passes through a grand entryway made from thick wooden posts spanning into a solid overhead beam.
Mounted in the center of the beam is a triangular, leather-covered heater shield, adorned with a red cross pattée on a white background.
The carriage draws to a stop outside a two-story gray stone blockhouse with an attached eight and a half meter tall hexagonal watchtower. It sits along the border of Britannia, The Netherlands empires, and a stones throw away from the Marijuana Empire.
Blockhouse: is a small fortification, usually consisting of one or more rooms with loopholes, allowing its defenders to fire in various directions. It is usually an isolated fort serving as a defensive strong point.
Opening the carriage's door Corym steps out into the late afternoon sun.
(𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒊𝒐)
𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆: 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒚𝒎 𝑬𝒍𝒚𝒓𝒂
𝑨𝒈𝒆: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔: 𝑬𝒍𝒇
𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓: 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 1.75 𝒎
𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 65.3 𝒌𝒈
𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒓: 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔: 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒚 (𝑹) 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅 (𝑳)
𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅: 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏
𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓: 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑻𝒊𝒑𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈
𝑱𝒐𝒃: 𝑨𝒅𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒓
𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔: 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓
𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔(𝒆𝒔): 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓, 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒕
𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌: 𝑪
𝑮𝒆𝒂𝒓: 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒐𝒓𝒔𝒐 𝑨𝒓𝒎𝒐𝒓 𝒘/ 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓 𝑻𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒄, 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑷𝒂𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒔, 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝑯𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒂𝒌, 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝑪𝒂𝒏𝒗𝒂𝒔 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝑱𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒔, 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓
𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒏: 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝑩𝒐𝒘
Following behind him is Fiora—his mother, and Holly—a faerie and travel companion.
(𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒊𝒐)
𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆: 𝑭𝒊𝒐𝒓𝒂 𝑬𝒍𝒚𝒓𝒂
𝑨𝒈𝒆: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔: 𝑬𝒍𝒇
𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓: 𝑭𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 1.80 𝒎
𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 59 𝒌𝒈
𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒓: 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕, 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏
𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔: 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒚
𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅: 𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓
𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓: 𝑳𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔
𝑱𝒐𝒃: 𝑻𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒓 𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍
𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔: 𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓
𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔(𝒆𝒔): 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌: 𝑺𝑺
𝑮𝒆𝒂𝒓: 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒆, 𝑮𝒂𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒔, 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔, 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒔
𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒏: 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒖𝒏𝒆 (𝑲𝒂𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒂)
(𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒊𝒐)
𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆: 𝑯𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒚
𝑨𝒈𝒆: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔: 𝑭𝒂𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆
𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓: 𝑭𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 1.30 𝒎
𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 31 𝒌𝒈
𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒓: 𝑭𝒓𝒆𝒆 𝑭𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌
𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔: 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅: 𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒆
𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓: 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒓
𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑳𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒂 𝒔𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒅
𝑱𝒐𝒃: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔: 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒆
𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔(𝒆𝒔): 𝑩𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒓 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒔
𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒌 𝑹𝒐𝒃𝒆, 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒌 𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒓𝒕, 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑻𝒂𝒃𝒊 𝑺𝒐𝒄𝒌𝒔, 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑳𝒂𝒄𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑾𝒐𝒐𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒍𝒔 𝒘/ 𝑹𝒆𝒅 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒑𝒔
Next out is Oz.
(𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒊𝒐)
𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆: 𝑶𝒛
𝑨𝒈𝒆: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔: 𝑫𝒆𝒎𝒊-𝒉𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘 𝑾𝒐𝒍𝒇
𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓: 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 1.80 𝒎
𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 70 𝒌𝒈
𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒓: 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑭𝒖𝒓
𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔: 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏
𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅: 𝑺𝒍𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓, 𝑷𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍
𝑱𝒐𝒃: 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓'𝒔 𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒍 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓
𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔: 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓
𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔(𝒆𝒔): 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓, 𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒍𝒆𝒓
𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌: 𝑺𝑺
𝑮𝒆𝒂𝒓: 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒐 𝑾𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝑪𝒐𝒂𝒕, 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒐 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝑻𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝑳𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒔
𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒏: 𝑬𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒂 𝑺𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒌𝒔
𝑺𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒏: 𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒘𝒔, 𝑻𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒉
Lastly out comes Dale and Bonaluria.
(𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒊𝒐)
𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆: 𝑫𝒂𝒍𝒆, 𝒁𝒆𝒓𝒐 (𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓)
𝑨𝒈𝒆: 41
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔: 𝑯𝒖𝒎𝒂𝒏
𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓: 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 1.80 𝒎
𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 85.7 𝒌𝒈
𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒓: 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒅
𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔: 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅: 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒅, 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒌, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑴𝒖𝒔𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓
𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓: 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆
𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑾𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒌 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒔
𝑱𝒐𝒃: 𝑪𝒉𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝑽𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒚, 𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒆 (𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓)
𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔: 𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏
𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔(𝒆𝒔): 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌: 𝑺
𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑮𝒓𝒂𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒏-𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕, 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒔
(𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒊𝒐)
𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆: 𝑩𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒂, 𝑭𝒊𝒗𝒆 (𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓)
𝑨𝒈𝒆: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔: 𝑬𝒍𝒇
𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓: 𝑭𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 1.79 𝒎
𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 59 𝒌𝒈
𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒓: 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕, 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓
𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔: 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒘/ 𝑮𝒐𝒍𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒍𝒆𝒔
𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅: 𝑺𝒍𝒊𝒎
𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓: 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆
𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑷𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒚 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔
𝑱𝒐𝒃: 𝑼𝒏𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒚𝒆𝒅 (𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒓), 𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒆 (𝑭𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓)
𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔: 𝑨𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒏
𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔(𝒆𝒔): 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌: 𝑺𝑺
𝑮𝒆𝒂𝒓: 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑪𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒏 𝑱𝒖𝒎𝒑𝒔𝒖𝒊𝒕, 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝑷𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒆𝒔
Corin hops down from the driver's seat. Poppy and Silver flutter beside him.
(𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒊𝒐)
𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆: 𝑪𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒏
𝑨𝒈𝒆: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔: 𝑭𝒂𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆
𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓: 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 1.80 𝒎
𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 65 𝒌𝒈
𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒓: 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈, 𝑱𝒆𝒕-𝒃𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌
𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔: 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒑 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆
𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅: 𝑺𝒍𝒊𝒎
𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓: 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒓
𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑩𝒍𝒖𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔
𝑱𝒐𝒃: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔: 𝑾𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒐𝒓
𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔(𝒆𝒔): 𝑪𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒂𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒆, 𝑻𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒏, 𝑨𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓
𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑳𝒐𝒏𝒈-𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝑺𝒉𝒊𝒓𝒕, 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔, 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒕𝒔
𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝑾𝒆𝒂𝒑𝒐𝒏: 𝑫𝒐𝒖𝒃𝒍𝒆-𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝑲𝒂𝒎𝒂
(𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒊𝒐)
𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆: 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓
𝑨𝒈𝒆: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔: 𝑭𝒂𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆
𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓: 𝑴𝒂𝒍𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 17.3 𝒄𝒎
𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅
𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒓: 𝑺𝒉𝒐𝒓𝒕, 𝑺𝒑𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒅, 𝑭𝒓𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒚
𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔: 𝑷𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒍-𝒔𝒂𝒈𝒆
𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅: 𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒏
𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓: 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆
𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔
𝑱𝒐𝒃: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔: 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒆
𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔(𝒆𝒔): 𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒆
𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈: 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑽𝒆𝒔𝒕, 𝑩𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑺𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝑪𝒉𝒆𝒄𝒌𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑷𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒔
(𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒊𝒐)
𝑵𝒂𝒎𝒆: 𝑷𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒚
𝑨𝒈𝒆: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒆𝒔: 𝑭𝒂𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒆
𝑮𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓: 𝑭𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒆
𝑯𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 17 𝒄𝒎
𝑾𝒆𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕: 𝑼𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒆𝒅
𝑯𝒂𝒊𝒓: 𝑷𝒊𝒙𝒊𝒆 𝑪𝒖𝒕, 𝒀𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒘
𝑬𝒚𝒆𝒔: 𝑬𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒅 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏
𝑩𝒐𝒅𝒚 𝑩𝒖𝒊𝒍𝒅: 𝑷𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒆
𝑺𝒌𝒊𝒏 𝑪𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒓: 𝑫𝒂𝒓𝒌
𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝑭𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔: 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑾𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔
𝑱𝒐𝒃: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
𝑪𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔: 𝑴𝒂𝒈𝒆
𝑺𝒖𝒃𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔(𝒆𝒔): 𝑮𝒆𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓, 𝑯𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓
𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒌: 𝑼𝒏𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏
"How and where did you find this type of carriage?" Inquired Oz.
"It was in a red item scroll." Replied Corym.
Dale then adds, "it was originally a gray scroll that turned red after Abby picked it up."
"She has graciously loaned it to me for the time being. Oh that reminds me, Dale, did you ever hear back from the Research Guild about this scroll?"
"Yes. It's something that they haven't heard of and requested a detailed report on the matter. However, I was unable to write on up. Until now that is."
"I've never heard of a scroll changing colors before. How about you Fiora? Have you ever heard of such a thing happening?" Asked Oz.
But Fiora isn't listening. She's surveying the area.
"Something's not right. Why hasn't anyone come out to greet us?"
Hearing the concern in his mother's voice Corym asks, "What's wrong?"
The others pick up on this exchange and cut the chitchat to listen.
"This is a Templar blockhouse. It's always manned by ten soldiers around the clock at all times. Five on dayshift and five on nightshift. And yet no one has come out.
"I personally oversaw the deforestation of this area to ensure anyone in the watchtower would have a clear three-sixty view of the area.
"So they definitely would've seen us approaching from a distance and informed their commander of our arrival."
Holly holds up her hands and closes her eyes. With her eyes still closed she says, "the barrier is still active."
"Silver, Poppy, split up and search the surrounding area. Don't forget the forest."
"On it."
"Roger that."
"Corin, you're with me. The rest of you stay here, but please aid Poppy or Silver if they need it."
Fiora calmly gives her orders as she heads for the blockhouse door; Corin follows.
Oz, sniffs the air, "I don't detect anything out of the ordinary."
Bonaluria hops onto the roof of the carriage where everyone's luggage is at. "I don't see or hear anything, either."
Dale asks, "Holly, how far out does the barrier for this blockhouse go?"
"One meter up from the top of the watchtower and expanding outwards by one meter.
Even underground it's protected by a one meter barrier. However I can change that as I see fit."
As Holly says this she's staring daggers up at Bonaluria who has her back to her.
But Bonaluria is an elf, and of course she heard everything.
****
Once inside Fiora signals Corin to head upstairs and up to the tower. Corin nods and heads up.
Fiora does a slow lap of the first floor. Looking for any clue as to what may have transpired here.
The first floor is an open floor concept with a sitting room and fireplace, kitchen, and dining room. The washroom is just past the stairs leading up to the second floor.
There's a storage closet underneath the stairs. Each room has basic furnishings.
Satisfied nothing's amiss—aside from the missing soldiers, Fiora heads upstairs.
The second floor is the soldiers' sleeping quarters. The CO, (Commanding Officer) and the XO, (Executive Officer) also have their own offices up here.
A name plate hangs on each door identifying the room's occupant.
These rooms are also furnished with the basics: a single bed, an armoire, a desk and chair, a lamp, along with some personal effects of the soldier.
Corin appears at the bottom of another set of stairs at the opposite end of the floor. Having searched and found nothing up in the watchtower.
Time ticks by like molasses for everyone waiting outside, ever on alert for an enemy attack. Eventually from the doorway Fiora gives the all clear and beckons for them to come inside.
Once inside Fiora reports that no one is here and nothing seems out of the ordinary.
"So where the hell is everyone?" Mutters Dale.
"I'll use my World Sight skill to locate them."
"Are you sure you want to do that?"
"Yes Oz I'm sure." Replied Corym.
"But prolonged usage could leave you permanently blind in both eyes."
"A small price to pay for finding the missing Templar soldiers and the missing kids."
"Wait, hold up a second." Interjects Bonaluria. "Corym, what kind of skill do you have that'll cost you your sight?"
"Don't tell her shit, Corym. Not until she tells us about her skill that redirects people or whatever the hell it does when she's attacked."
Corym ignores his mother. "World Sight."
Fiora mumbles under her breath, "you damn fool."
Extremely Rare Skill "World Sight."
An extremely rare skill that only two people currently have.
However, constant usage causes deterioration of both eyes leading to blindness. Very little is known about this skill.
"There's… nothing."
"What do you mean nothing?" Asked Fiora.
"Just that. The only ones around are us here in this building, and Silver and Poppy out in the woods. I don't even see a corpse."
"Okay got it. Now deactivate your skill."
"Not yet. I need to gather everyone's aura signature so I can narrow down the location of the missing kids."
Corym looks at Oz first. "Your aura is blue, green, and turquoise."
"You can see our auras? And I have three of them?"
"You do. It's not that uncommon to have multiple auras. Some auras appear stronger than others while some are evenly balanced like yours are."
"How do you know so much about auras?"
"I'll explain it later. Now for the rest of you. Dale yours is navy, beige, and black. For Bonaluria it's mint, peach, and silver."
"Don't you mean black, blacker, and blackest?"
Ignoring his mother, Corym closes his eyes, getting an entire view of the world. His mind is flooded with so much information he almost passes out.
"𝐺𝑜𝑡…𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ…𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ…𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠." Corym takes a deep breath. "𝑂𝑘𝑎𝑦, 𝐼'𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑡 𝑏𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑢𝑛𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦 𝑎𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑜 ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑝 𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛. 𝑁𝑒𝑥𝑡, 𝑙𝑜𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡-𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑒𝑙𝑓 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑𝑟𝑒𝑛. 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑆𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒. 𝑊𝑎𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑠…"
"Is he alright? He's sweating a lot?"
"I honestly don't know, Dale. Corym's never used this skill for so long before."
Corym starts to fall backwards. Dale and Corin catch him before he hits the floor. They carry him over to the couch and gently lay him down.
"Now what?" Oz asked.
"We wait. He needs time to process everything." Said Fiora.
"You've dealt with this before I take it."
"That's none of your damn business Bonaluria."
"Hey now," said Dale, "there's no need to bite her head off. She was only asking out of concern for your son."
"Are you fucking kidding me?! Where was that concern when she helped orchestrate the murder of Emperor Maxwell Sr, and got my husband killed in the process!"
Fiora takes a step towards Bonaluria, her hand on the tsuka (hilt) of her katana—Masamune.
Oz steps between the two. "Let's go gather wood for a fire before it gets too dark to see."
"Firewood?! That's the best you can come up with to get me away from her?"
"I could always drag you away by force if necessary." Growls Oz.
"I'd like to see you try." Fiora's grip tightens on Masamune.
Oz reaches up under his waist coat for his escrima's that are vertically holstered in the small of his back. Neither one of them blinks.
The tension between them is palpable. Bonaluria, Dale, Holly, and Corin move back.
None of them were willing to get in between a General of the Templars and a Headmaster of the Hunters School.
It's at that moment Poppy and Silver fly through the door. "Hey guys, we found a natural hot spring nearby. Let's go for a dip." Suggested Poppy, excitedly.
"We also didn't find anything in the woods. What happened to Corym?" Asked Silver, landing on Corym's forehead.
"He used his World Sight skill." Holly replied.
Fiora takes her hand off of Masamune, "that does sound wonderful. Poppy, Holly, you can join me if you wish.
The rest of you stay away from me. I need time to think.
Fiora heads out. Poppy and Holly follow after.
"Is she serious right now?" Dale asked the room. "Ten of her soldiers are missing and she's taking a dip in a fucking hot spring!"
It's Corin who speaks up in her defense. "It's her way of processing. She needs to go over everything she knows about the situation and figure out how to proceed."
"And she can't do that here?"
"Given the current company," Corin looks over at Bonaluria, "you can't really blame her for wanting to be alone."
"Then why are Poppy and Holly with her, if she wants to be alone?"
"All four of us are Templar officers and her general staff." Answered Sliver.
"Let's leave her be and do a more thorough search of this place," suggests Oz, "Maybe we'll find something that'll help explain what's going on here."
Everyone agrees and begins a more in-depth search of the place. They come up empty-handed.
"What do we do now?" Bonaluria asked.
"Let's bring in our things and wait for Fiora to return." Said Dale.
"I'm gonna see what ingredients there are and get dinner started."
"Sounds good Bon-bon."
****
"Poppy, Holly," what do you make of this situation?"
Holly answers Fiora's question with a question of her own. "Which one? Your hatred towards Bonaluria, or the missing Templar soldiers?"
"The missing soldiers. All of them are B-ranked, while their captain and lieutenant are A-ranked. And yet we cannot find a single trace of them. No signs of a fight or a struggle. No evidence that anything happened to them at all."
"They were a mix of beast-kin and demi-humans weren't they?" Poppy asked, leading the way to the hot spring.
"Yes. The beast-kin's are: Ranmy, a male Leopard. Sake, a female Puma." Fiora starts ticking off each soldier stationed at this blockhouse on her fingers. "Tanidas is a male Black-backed Jackal and Hathy is a Tasmanian Devil."
Poppy said, "Hathy is like a bottomless pitt when it comes to meat."
Holly giggles at a past memory. "It was rather amusing watching Hathy take a chunk out of Gnatir's arm, and Gnatir, frantically running around trying to get her off of him."
"If it wasn't for Gnatir being a Minotaur and a demi-human, she probably would've devoured him on the spot." Adds Fiora, "and with him being the captain, he was able to squash any harsh punishment she'd have faced for allowing her carnivorous appetite to get out of hand like it did"
"Tetes is a female, demi-human Tarantula, and the lieutenant." Now it's Holly who starts listing off names. "Zeew is a…um…oh, she's a beast-kin Nightjar, Crissei is a male, Bulette, Larnat is a male Ctenizidae, Liqi is an Eagle, and all three of them are demi-humans."
"Any bad blood between any of them?"
Fiora shakes her head. "Not that I'm aware of. I'll have someone start looking into it further if we can't find anyone."
"Or anything." Remarks Poppy.
The conversation eventually stalls out which is fine because they had arrived at the hot spring.
Even in the waning light it gives off a beautiful array of blues, reds, yellows, greens, and oranges. It's an odd oval-shaped construct that's about two-point-three meters long, by one-point-one meters wide, and one meter deep.
"Wow, how beautiful!" Exclaimed Holly, "it's like seeing a rainbow on the ground."
"It is indeed beautiful." Agreed Fiora, "in all my years I've never seen anything quite like this."
"Let's call it Rainbow on the Ground Hot-spring." Suggests Poppy.
Fiora and Holly nod their heads in agreement. They begin removing their gear and clothing.
Poppy who is always naked lands on a rock beside the water and dips a tiny foot in. "This actually feels quite wonderful."
Fiora, wades into the water and finds a good spot to submerge herself, while keeping Masamune within arms reach, just in case.
Staring at Fiora, Poppy asks, "have your breasts gotten bigger?"
"Nope. I'm still a B-cup.
Holly stands near the waters edge and asks, "should I put up a protection barrier?"
Poppy replies, "no need. I've been speaking with the plants. They'll inform me if someone tries to sneak a peek at us, or if anyone they don't recognize approaches. So get in already and relax would you."
"Oh, okay then. Thank you, Poppy." Holly gets in and sits across from Fiora.
After a few minutes Holly speaks again. "Um, how are we gonna dry off?"
"We'll just air dry ourselves as we walk back." Answered Poppy, floating along on the water.
"B-but they'll see us."
"Are you feeling alright, Holly?" Asked Fiora, "You're normally not this reserved about anyone seeing you naked."
"I… I kept catching Dale staring at me. He's not secretly a pervert who's into little girls is he?"
Poppy speaks up. "Can he really be considered a pervert who's into little girls if you're older than him?"
"My age is irrelevant if I always look like a pubescent child." Retorts Holly.
"I don't get that vibe from him at all. He's probably comparing you to the daughter he just found out about."
Fiora, Holly, and Poppy continue chatting away. Meanwhile ten figures had spread out amongst the shadows, cutting off any means of escape, moving as one towards the hot spring.