There Will Be An End

[Ricia]

"What..?" Miu asked when they both looked at her.

 

[InsaneTruth]

"it was just random," Star giggled and hugged her "Can we papa?"

 

[Ricia]

"Yes, you can." Axesort said with a nod. "Well then. It is starting to get late... so I think we can start heading back."

 

[InsaneTruth]

"Ok," Star said and smiled "lets go home," she took Miu's hand "we got an adventure to tell now,"

 

[Ricia]

Miu nodded, "Yeah!" She said happily.


"Make sure to remember to go give everyone a flower." Axesort said with a chuckle. He was sure the staff would be overjoyed to receive a gift, even if it was such a small and frail one. But from the daughters of the person they worked for, he was sure it was a gigantic gesture.

 

[InsaneTruth]

Star grinned "Oh yes! that will be so fun Runa you are coming too right?"


"Of course," she said taking her sisters free hand

 

[Ricia]

When they got back, Miuccia grabbed a whole bundle of flowers with her sisters and went to go delivered them to everyone. Even Stone and the breeders. Magic ate her flower, but she was cute while she was doing it. Even Ray accepted the flower they gave her. Many of the slaves and fauns is happy to get a flower.

 

[InsaneTruth]

Stone chuckled thanking the girls. Most everyone loved the little girls so the flowers were widely welcomed received. Zek even enchanted his just because it was a good waste of excess magic.

 

[Ricia]

A month slowly crawled by and a city guard was starting to form. However the keep only had a few guard... as Axesort only let people who he originally brought to the keep become guard of the keep. Which was a total of one faun and one human. Troy and Lance were not ready to receive training yet, they were still pretty aggressive, but their control was coming along slowly. So he thought anyway.

 

[InsaneTruth]

The scarlet blades trained with Stone every morning. Runa the fastest when it came to learning. Zek had been studying hard but when asked if he wanted to train he only lasted one day before vowing to never again try it. The faun were so much more comfortable Ami and Lil had done so much good for them and the slaves and Soki was now hunting his own mice Glitter like any good mother taught him to dig out holes and small things like that.

 

[Ricia]

Axesort was good for his word and trained with Runa and the girls. He was happy to do it. He also took a bit of lessons from Stone himself. Stone could see his fighting style was very old and very out dated. It was not necessarily a bad thing, it was just... well old.


Axesort was in his office doing things before a knock on the door made him look up. It was his teller, Saskia. "Come in." He told her. She nodded before walking in with a parchment of paper.

 

[InsaneTruth]

The girls were getting better. Stone also helpped Axesort get better teaching him new tricks and moved Stone was a patient teacher a good one too.


Glitter was in his office talking to him about bringing in a doctor or a health staff stronger then they had since she was worried with the season change and its bringing of illness.

 

[Ricia]

It was a good suggest and a needed one. When Saskia walked in, she gave a polite nod to Glitter, "Lady Glitter." She said softly. She was starting to really unwind a bit... Axesort learned she had quite the snippy attitude. He encouraged it often times. Though no one was as snippy as Ray... he really hopped she didn't rub off on Zek...


"What can I do for you..?" Axesort asked.


"Lord Ashur.. I came to give you some... er... bad.. news? I think.." Saskia said, not even sure how to classify it.


"Alright then, tell me." He encouraged.


"Someone has been breaking into the treasury... I have a good idea of who." Saskia said slowly.

 

[InsaneTruth]

"Breaking in?" Glitter asked this was serious someone was taking from a dragons horde that was not something smart people did. Not that anyone knew Ashur was a dragon.

 

[Ricia]

"Yes..." Saskia said slowly.


"And... what have they been taking and who are they?" Axesort said seriously. Seriously pissed.


"Well.. I'll start with.. what they are not taking before I tell you who they are." Saskia put her hands up in defense.


"Pardon..? Not taking?" Axesort said raising a brow. "I'm afraid I don't understand."

 

[InsaneTruth]

"Are they putting something ... in?" Glitter asked

 

[Ricia]

"Yeah..." Saskia said.


Axesort blinked a bit before looking a bit confused, proububly as confused as Glitter.


"Who?" He asked. He may not need to ask.


"Er.. I'm pretty sure it is Mousey, sir." Saskia said before handing over the ledger for the statements.


Axesort opened it up and looked at it. Saskai marked how much was over and how it was the same amount as what Mousey gets once a week.

 

[InsaneTruth]

"What is that elf up to?" Glitter asked Axesort. She looked and laughed "He never takes money it's like he shuns it,"

 

[Ricia]

Axesort was making a very complicated face. It was between extreme annoyance and relief. "Thank you Saskia..." He said with a low sigh. "Just continued to give him his pay. Just the normal once a week is fine. Don't try and give back what he puts in. I'll take care of this."


"Of course Lord Ashur. Please tell him to stop making my life hard." She said before giving another light bow and leaving.


Axesort thought for a moment. He never took his money to begin with.. and now that he lived here, he was getting a hot meal three times a day. Well if hot meals were being served that day anyway. But really.... The least he could do was take a few coins... he'll figure out how to do something about this some other time.

 

[InsaneTruth]

Glitter laughed "she will give the elf hell if you let her,"

 

[Ricia]

"He'll be getting it from me too. I'm just not sure how I want to do it yet." Axesort said thinking. "but this is for a later date... lets continue our discussion." He said softly.


It has been several months since Ray started training Zek.. she had to say having him as a student wasn't that bad. In fact she found she.. enjoyed teaching him. It was a rough start, mostly because she couldn't let him think she was a pushover. Today however she was taking him out to town to teach him to be sneaky with his magic.

 

[InsaneTruth]

Zek of course in glamour went with her he stood too proud he let off the air of a noble boy.

 

[Ricia]

"Today is about being discreet.." Ray said. And.. possibly causing mischief. They walked a bit further into town before she saw a prime opportunity. There was several horses for a slave caravan entering town. She was sure they would be visiting Axesort later. "Spook the horses." She told him.

 

[InsaneTruth]

"Spook," he repeated so not harm. He whispered a summoning spell something he was still a bit new at he summoned a corn snake and made sure it was in the horses path.

 

[Ricia]

Of course the horse flipped out and it almost tipped the cart. It took the slavers a bit of time to calm him. Ray lips curled in a very light smile, mostly because she thought it was funny. She looked around a bit more, "Then... that." She pointed to a man talking to a women. He looked like he was flirting. "Drop his pants. This time I want you to try and do it wordlessly. Before you protest. You can do spells wordlessly.. they just take more power."