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'Agreed something is not right, but you don't have to stay by yourself.' Strongly felt words rested in Jay's mind as the stranger walk closer and stopped, hair just as colorful as Roman's. Both Dark's raspy dragon growl and Micheal's inhuman growl released as a threat to step no further. Mich grabbed Roman.

'Dark, lower.'

Dark did but instead he carefully took Roman and set him up on his shoulders keeping a strict glare on the colorful stranger. He was trying to sense what he was, how much energy this creature had.

Once making sure Roman was secure is was a surprise that for once he was cooperating.

Micheal looked at Dark, the only thing that could get him away in tight situations other than him going blood crazy thirsty and letting his own wings out. His eyes went back at the stranger that stood there. Draining his energy seem the likely tactic, but in this case no he wasn't going to try it. 'was this the stranger that briefly visited before.' he asked Jay but then shortly said. 'We won't be far.' Micheal then easily hopped up on Dark and then wrapped his arms around Roman, holding on to Dark's mane.

Dark adjusted his new weight on his shoulders to balance them and spread out his wings while sending out a clicking noise as a warning to stay back.

Taking advantage of the strange woman's attention being deverted, Uritia and Falinor made a dash for the depths of the woods while they could.

((Warden and Jace))
Before too long, the squires had returned to the outpost with their report at hand. Finding the person they needed to see, they went on to explain their findings, what the Fae Reborn had said and where it was last seen.

Leverne stayed quietly in the background while listening to Warden and Jace's report. Before anyone else could speak, however, he stood.

"I'm not inclined to trust a reborn," he said quietly, "and not just because it is a reborn. They are... difficult for me to understand, being part dragon and part fae. Their loyalty is not the same as other fae. It could lie easily where others of my people could not. But we have no way to tell if what it was telling is indeed a lie, either. What is to the south? Any areas that could shelter a small army?"

"I get the feeling that you won't believe anything I say." Risen said calmly. He crossed his arms as he watched her. "I have not seen Avalene since we parted ways. I hope she is safe and comfortable where ever she is." He was ignoring questions about Sain. Not that the ranger would believe him anyways.

"I am not here to fight. I'm unarmed."

"I am a growing dragon and all," Ares replied fairly smugly, "Then again. I guess I don't really grow until someone says it's time for me.."

Thinking on that, he soon shrugged before watching as the blue mage took the shiny off the wall. Giving a rather toothy grin, he wagged his tail from side to side and nodded with a sense of excitement. Without any hesitation, he went off and bounded towards the center of the circle, watching as the cracks began to fill with light.

"Alright! Also, I really like your magic. It's all bright and sparkly. Everything is better with particle effects and all," he nodded, not that the term particle effects had a lot of meaning to anyone around here.

"Ruins... Kocerou does like old places and places of power. It is worth investigating. Is there anything to the north of that? His army may have just been passing through that area to put distance between them and the forest."

"I wish you'd had brought that reborn with you," Leverne said, looking displeased, "I would have liked to have spoken with him myself. Would it be possible to hunt him down and capture him, or is it too far gone?"

"There are some ruins up northeast of here as well," Warden replied, "I apologize for not bringing him back. I wasn't sure how the order would have.. reacted to him. But I came as quickly as I could for that very reason. He shouldn't have gotten too far at this point so if we make haste we could probably find him once more."

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Turning towards the side as the knight went to fly along side, both Blade and Astalder remained relaxed. Though, the former raised a brow as the knight took a double take, confused as to what caused him to be shocked. However, it soon became clear. Letting out a sigh as that particular event was brought up, he nodded slowly. It wasn't one of his most fond memories to be reminded of.

That aside, they weren't too certain if it was a good or bad thing that someone recognized them here. They didn't know if the Knights had anything to do with the conflict, but they better play it safe for sure.

<> mused the dragon, <>

It wasn't a lie. Before running into the whole Fae incident, that was what they were doing. And the two did do a fair amount of wandering and travelling; stopping at Genyiel now and then to take some rests.

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Ares's eyes widened as he watched the scenery around them change with what seemed like a blink for him.

"Woah... Nice transition!" he marveled as he stared around, taking in the sights and sounds of everything around him. This was his first time outside in a long time and may have been his first time ever for that matter.

"Wow, outside is a lot cooler than it sounded! It's so... green though," he commented before mumbling some nonsense, "Now if I could just get out of this little text bubble... that'll be tough though..."

Looking up towards the mage, he nodded and darted on towards the nearest tree to give a good look, then bolted on to the next. He didn't stray too far as he quickly moved from one spot to the next, but he was slowly making his further away.