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Slifer watched carefully as Anatsazi turned to face him. His muscles tenced in anticipation, and then nothing. He looked confused. He had been expecting it. The rush semi going he saw Anastazi quickly going to slash him. Slifer had been distracted. He immediatly jumped aside so that he coudl face Anastazi. As he jumped aside his sword went down again. Once he had regained his stance he brought it back up to the starting position of a fencer.

His ears twitched, trying to see with his ears as well as his eyes. He saw Anastazi miss and whilst he saw it he pondered, was he going to hit the floor, and if so, how hard. Slifer then pushed that thought out of his mind. He had been off guard last time. He was sure Anastazi had a few more tricks up his sleeve

((ok, if i pass i am going to lab, correct? Also... will there be a new topic, like aristocratic party or something?))

[OOC: Ah, yes, but it is a known fact that old men tend to go for young girls. And she was cradleing a chicken in her arm, which suggest lack of teaching or sanity. And Helen is the pyscho maid cliche I so love... ]

"Okay!"

Alexander could not help but smile at this. She seemed somewhat happy to be heading out of the city to Laburnum. Then again, if it were possible, he would have made the exact same choice. That was not in his power though. Were he to go he would be recognized which was something that could not be allowed, no, it could not.

His head would barely miss scraping with the top of the stable doors. They were tall yet so was the stallion he rode, adding onto Alexander's own height to create a near dangerous mixture. He would do nothing more then incline his head somewhat to excape that fate though. The inside of the stable smelled of animals, namely horse and cow. The animals in question were located in a stall against the far wall. Three horses remained which left six pens empty, the final one held a cow that seemed content to munch on hay.

Alexander would by instinct guide his horse toward it's stall, lowering himself from the saddle once they were inside. First he would unstrap the saddle to tell the horse it was free, then back out of the stall and shut the gate. Only then would he turn back to Clet to see what she was doining.

"Feel free to take your pick of them. Helen should be out shortly with some money for you."

While Clet wandered around Alexander cast a glance towards the stable doors. He could not see Helen through them. Obviously she intended to waste time for the moment while bringing him the gold. Inside he was furious at this but chose to say nothing. No reason to complain infront of the girl who could be of use to him.

"That one,"

Upon hearing these words Alexander would turn to look at her choice. It seemed she had not been the one to choose if the chicken on his horses back was any sign. The animal chosen by the chicken was great though, one of his best. A chocolate brown mare with a white spot on her nose. The horse just swished it's tail lazily as Alexander approached and placed a guantlet covered hand on the stall door. He would not open it just yet though, instead he would glance towards Clet.

"It would probably be best if I asked your name. It was rude of me to have you follow me without even knowing that much. I am called Alexander Reculia."

Alexander's smile was genuine as he looked at her. He had still yet to get to the details of her performance. In truth he was far from sure. There was no way of knowing what day she would be needed, what time, or what place? What would he do? It was far too obvious, send her to Adrian to be sent where he wished.

*Ippi snapped back into reality, though her dreams were replaced by drowsiness. She inadvertently found herself leaning on Theodore, her head resting on his shoulder. Of course, she was asleep before he could protest. She dreamed of Kyle and of Theodore, hoping there would be a showdown for her love. She smiled in her sleep, proud of her incredible attractiveness and flirtiness.*

((btw, yes, I did say "As if to," not that I actually swung at you. So my plan works just fine. This means the second half of your post didn't have a chance to happen.))

When Slifer jumped aside to avoid the alleged slash, Anastazi pulled his blow rather than following through. Instead, he turned with Slifer and kicked out while the boy was off balance from the jump, attempting to sweep his legs out from under him.

((Silfer hun you might want to go ahead and just make your attack so we can get this over with. Otherwise it will be at least 4 more posts before we can get going so please go back and edit, you can always leave the shifting weight everywhere just go ahead and do it simply saysing it would be hard to predict where he was going to strike or something))

Theodore's eyes sprung open, and he looked about the carriage frantically.

Whowhatwherehuhwhere'sthefire!?

Oh, almost there... That's good, that's good.

((And... to Kumori))

"I'm Clethia Apollo!"

Alexander would return the girl's grin with a smile and a nod. His face would not turn from her as he whatched two more of the chickens move to join the one currently on the horse's back. The silver haired man would not catch the strange use of punctuation in Clethia's voice. He had never heard her name before, thus in his mind it became 'Clethia Apoyo'. An easily made mistake in truth.

"And it's okay. I didn't introduce myself either. And neither did they. Well then, go ahead, introduce yourselves to Alexander."

For a moment Alexander would continue to stare at her with his left eyebrow arched. Only for a moment though, then he would turn to look upon the chickens. They did not seem too keen upon introducing themselves. The one in the back clucked, that was basically all of the noise that they made. At least to Alexander's knowledge. Clethia seemed to think they said a good deal if her nods meant anything at all. In the depths of his mind, Alexander was not so sure that they did.

"He's Henry, the one behind him's William, and that's The Third. He won't answer to anything else."

At this Alexander would glance back to Clet, the look of confusion upon his face replaced by that small smile again. This girl was odd to say the least. She actually beleived she could speak with the fowl and they would respond? It was something the elderly man found quite hard to beleive. But if that was her frame of mind, he would go along with it. Turning Alexander would make a formal bow to the chickens as he had already introduced himself to Clethia. The smile on his face evolved into a silent laugh as he did so. It was terribly funny to the elderly man to humble himself before a gang of chickens. Still, the girl might have been offended otherwise.

"It is a pleasure to meet you all."

Even as Alexander straightened from the bow a small cough would come from behind them. Turning he glanced over his shoulder to find his dark brown eyes falling upon Helen again. The money pouch Alexander had requested was held close to her breast, both hands enclosed over it. The gold contained within the pouch equaled out to a good deal, at least the amount he normally paid the women per month. Her eyes were set in a confused glare, brows arched high with lids thin slits. She would not say anything as she moved forward quickly, almost flying across the floor. The pouch was quickly be deposited into Alexander's hand from her's. Yet Helen was not quite done yet, instead she took it upon herself to learn close and whisper to the man.

"M'lord, are you alright? Should I call the doctor?

For a moment Alexander would merely stare at her in confusion. Then he would reach up and using thumb and forefinger rub his temples. Oh what an annoyance the women was. Had she not been such a good house keeper Alexander would likely have fired her long ago. But that would require hiring a new one who might not have kept her mouth shut. At least not to the amount of silence that Alexander would have liked.

"That will be all Helen, please go back to your duties."

Once more the women would puff up like, for lack of better example, a chicken ready to get into a fight. She would just turn and storm off though, almost running across the stable floor on her way to the door. Alexander would not even whatch her go. Instead he would merely turn and hold out the bag of gold for Clethia to take.

"Upon reaching Laburnum use this to get a room at the inn. I also ask that you ask around for a man named Adrian. He should be able to give you directions to a perfect place for you to preform."