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Lloyd took the paper work from the knight and handed a copy to Trinity. They both signed their names with Trinity adding Helios' too. Handing back the papers Lloyd looked at the knights, now his fellow guards, "Thank you, I will wear the crest proudly." He shook their hands.
"Underneath your coat." Trinity added with a snicker.
Lloyd made a look of surprise at that comment. She was finally coming out of her shell. He laughed too. "So now, where do we go from here?" He asked the knights. He looked down at Trinity and smiled. The pegasus knight smiled back and handed their paperwork back to the knight while adding, "I look forward to working with you Lady Knight."

((Sorry its short. I was on a homework break and wanted to keep it going! biggrin ))

[Long introduction post, will start interacting with others in my next.]

"...Oh dear. Seems I've done made a mess of things around here! Saleh is going to tan my hide for sure!"

Granted, it had been some time since the War of the Stones. Ewan had more then grown into a capable Sage by this time. Even so, he was still the same old Ewan! His eyes burned with the youthful passion and curiosity that fueled his studies. Mischief was still a favorite pastime of his, much to the chagrin of his master. A few inches had been claimed, a fact that he was a bit sore about...Indeed, he wasn't really secretive about the whole thing! His height was one of the few things that set him off! Many a day had gone by that Saleh woke up to find his tomes washed away in the river after such incidents. Oh yes...The boy was a hurricane of disaster when pointed in the right direction. Really, it was all "just a testament to all my hard work!" Yes...He had been busy during these past years...Except for more practical magicks that is.

"No! Not the buckets! Just...Grah! Put them away! Stop moving, you're just making the whole situation worse! Who thought bewitching brooms to clean would be a good idea!? ...Oh wait...Don't answer that me!"

It was pandemonium! Pure bloody chaos! Dishes clattered to the ground as the incompetent brooms fumbled ineptly at their work, knocking them over as they passed by. Ewan could only mutter to himself, referencing the ill-kept tome that was the recesses of his mind for a spell to fix the whole mess. There wasn't much time! They were already invading the upper parts of the study! Wait, might as well take care of the problem itself!

"Alright! Time to whip out the old Fire spell!"

His hands guided the pages of his tome by instinct, a method repeated several times in his mind, becoming a regular part of his waking memory. Words were whispered underneath his breath, hands burning with arcane might. It was just as his master had said, "It's not the strength of the spell, it's how you use it!"

And this happened to be a piss-poor example.Turns out, setting sentient brooms on fire was the WORST idea imaginable! The brooms simply continued on their work, the flames spreading across their body and onto other parts of the study. ...Wait...Now everything was on fire!


"Oh man! Oh man! Oh geeze! This is bad! This is very, very, very bad! Well, maybe I can get to the emergency-"

And that's when the utility in question burst open from its container, the glass shatter from the heightened heat. Saleh had kept a rather large orb of water in the next room, to be masterfully manipulated in case of one of Ewan's slip-ups with his fire tome. This...This was not how it was meant to be utilized. Water crashed into the room, wanting to spread out as it does, flooding the entire study! Books were left dripping once it was flushed out by design, Ewan left gasping and choking on the ground.

"...Oh crud! I-I have to clean this up!

He dashed, gunned it as fast as his legs could take him. "Darn you stunted development!" The pupil cried, panicking at the thought of him unable to clean up the mess by Saleh's return. Oh man...As patient and understanding of a teacher Saleh was, his fury was not what you wanted to bring down onto you! The youth still had recurring nightmares over some of his harsher punishments. The man just had a way with magicks, a very..very terrifying way. But there was still hope! Inside the master room of the study, there was a sort of fail-safe that reset the house's condition if it had been effected by magicks recently. It was, yet again, another tool installed to pick up after his messes...

He really needed to work on that.

But...Which one...Which door was it?! The most confusing thing about complicated magicks was how elaborate the more advanced spells and inter-weaving could become. Saleh had expanded the study several times what it appeared the be on the outside, though for some reason he found the idea that it could be configured for time traveling to be stupid. Thems were the breaks. Anyway, it had the unfortunate side-effect of making the house pretty damn hard to navigate. However...After years of study and much time devoted to the answer, Ewan had devised the perfect tool in order to make his way through the house.

"...Enie, Minnie, Mini, Mo. Catch a Gerik by the toe. If he hollers, let him go. For Tethys will stike me so. There!"

He reached out for his selected door, twisting the handle with anticipation and panic. There wasn't much time and the brooms were still proceeding with their work! He really had to hand it to them, they were tenacious little buggers! However, it was not to be. A bright light engulfed him, his body pulled into the spacial hole that opened up at the door's opening. It was like his senses went into overload, the room starting to spin as his ear rang, head pounding as the last thing he heard was this.

"EWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"


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"Oi! Stop loafing around and get to a booth! We don't need any lollygagging whelps like you at a job fair! Get to work you!"

Oi...Saleh...Even when he was sleeping, the instruction never ended. Why couldn't he ever just rest a few more minutes...? It was starting- Wait. Job fair? Had he finally gone daffy? What could he be-...That was NOT Saleh. This was NOT the study!

"Great...Don't tell me I stumbled onto a teleportation glyph or something. This is why I stay out of Space and Time! That sort of Ball of Time-whimey-wobbliness is just...GRAH! Now...Where exactly am I?"

I ain't forgettin' anyone,
and I also ain't regrettin' anything.


As anyone could image, Leon's fiery words had come back to bite him. It seemed like they always did. Just as he thought he was going to get the last word, here came Marina. She had used a string of foul language and even dared to use physical violence against him and Sain?! He wouldn't stand for that! "Why you-" He said after recovering from the sudden blow. The Watch's Captain was about to swing, but he stopped mid-air.

Two things happened. One, Tibarn gave him an order to watch Vah, and two, Amelia gave him the cue to calm down. Regrettably, he ended up lowering his fist. He should have known better than to disregard the crew's orders, so he would have to be the one who lets it go for now. Quieting his temper and all the words he wanted to say, Captain Vatara let out a sigh and said "Don't worry, I'll keep an eye on her."

And when they were out of his sight, he sank back into his chair, wondering both Sain and Saifer were thinking about the whole scene? He hoped that neither one found him either too impulsive to speak so loudly against a superior, or maybe even too submissive to simply back off the way he did. Just as he was about to get lost in thought though, Vah sat right in front of him, cross-legged. The Captain was startled to see her just appear there, asking what he was doing.

"Er... just workin', like usual." He said casually. "Are ya hungry or anything? After I write a few more things down, I'm takin' these two and gettin' a bite to eat." He said, motioning to his two newest recruits, still hoping they were not scared of Eyris because of that bad encounter.

Alex nodded to Lloyd's question. "Yes of course, I don't see why not. Unless a commander says otherwise, I've only recently been promoted so I am unsure of how correct my own knowledge is. But to my knowledge, there should be no problem, but training with other soldiers within the guard isn't a bad thing once in a while either." he answered as he turns to Trinity as she asked if there were any other pegasus knight. He answered her question with a simple nod. "One of them was just here at this booth earlier, but she had to go somewhere.

He assisted Lloyd and Trinity with the help of the female knight fill out their papers to join the guard. Once they finished filling out the papers he said, "Welcome and we're glad you chose to join the guard." He twitched inside his own head for a moment as he said that. Alex was never a man of formalities and saying such formal things felt really awkward to him almost like leaving a weird taste in his mouth. However he shook the feeling away as he realized he never got the name of the two white knights. "Oh by the way, I never got your names," he said towards Valerick and Nuo. "I'm Alex, Captain in the Guard." he said extending a hand towards the brother first.

Joshua's business with finding a job doubly completed he turned away from Lance as the man was bombarded by more newcomers.He paused to clap Innes on the shoulder. "Good luck Innes, if you need anything swing by the Druken Boar. Yea there's no N, bit of a shady place but some easy marks there, ask the bartender about the guy with the hat, he'll set you straight," And with that the swordmaster was off again, heading for home.

He hadn't gotten very far when somebody yelling caused him to turn his head, it looked like somebody was yelling at a very confused looking little boy. Joshua recognized the little boy nearly immediately, it helped that Ewan hadn't grown much taller. First Innes and now Ewan? So many people from Magvel where showing up all of a sudden, maybe something was up?

Ewan had been a smart kid, good with magic too if a little... easily distracted. Out of all the younger members of the army he'd been the fastest to learn the coin tricks Joshua had shown them... of course Ross had just pocketed the coin Joshua gave him and Amelia kinda stared in wide eyed wonder anytime he did a trick so there wasn't really much competition. Perhaps the young sage would know something.

"Is there a problem?" Joshua said striding up to the two confidently with his normal swagger.

It looked like Tiki was doing well. She was a lot more cheery than their last encounter. He grinned.

"I'm just looking around and seeing what stalls are up. And yeah, let's walk and talk." he said with a nod. He held his hand out to her. "Here. Stay close to me so that we don't get separated by the crowd."