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Dyani realized the head magister must have been interested if he said that. She agreed to the proposal.
Dyani emnated a field surrounding herself and the head magister. Everything outside the field seemed to stop, but in reality, everything was slowed down as if time itself were frozen.
"Interesting spell. Now, I want you to hold it as long as possible, and fight me until you can go above and beyond your limits." He pushed a button on his staff, and a small blade extended from the bottom of the staff. He charged at her. Dyani dodged, but not before her arm recieved a scratch.
The headmaster came again and again very relentlessly, almost gliding with the wind with each advance. Dyani had a hard time dodging each of the blows. The headmaster charged at her again, this time knocking Dyani into a small pond. Dyani made a grasping motion inside of the water. when she raised her arm, she held a long beam of water. She ran to him thrusting as much as she could, only to have the headmaster dodge each and every blow.
"Is that all you can do?" The head magister summoned fire and focused it around his weapon. He clashed his weapon against the beam of water once to have the water evaporate. When the steam cleared away, Dyani held a scythe. Dyani was panting heavily, her hands were shaking as she grasped the scythe. The head magister looked impressed, and he released the time field. When the time field released, the rest of the judges unfroze. The scythe that Dyani once held had disappeared, and Dyani fell to her knees. The head magister knelt down to her level,
"Have you ever seen a scythe like the one you held just now?"
Dyani shook her head.
"Very well." The head magister turned to the rest of the judges,
"Clearly this woman has gone above and beyond her normal capabilities. I hereby recommend that she be added to the army."
He walked back to Dyani and said, "Clearly you were able to use that scythe because your body was under such stress. In all my years of practicing magic, I've never seen something like what you just did." He wanted to say something else, but he changed his mind. One of the judges walked up to Dyani and helped her out of the room and into the outside part of the stadium. They both walked to the lower floor, and the judge that helped Dyani left.

Joss finished practicing and walked back. He found somebody in the crowd and asked, "Excuse me, where may I find where the members of the Gauntlet stay?" The person he asked pointed north. Joss thanked him, and walked over at an upbeat pace, but his gait was interrupted when he bumped into an older man.

When Joss realized who it was, he immediately apologized.
"I've been doing well. I've been doing a few odd jobs to get by. How about yourself?" The reason Joss was still oddly cheerful is that he had the uncanny ability to be able to accept things. Death and loss were definitely sad for Joss, but he never let that get in the way of his life.

Durim continued to piece on the armor, looking at Sarodin as he grabbed blackheart and his helmet from the ground and stood, walking over to Sarodin

Sarodin looked Durim over, "Ah, the armor fits you well. Tell me, do you find it to your liking, Durim?" Sarodin then looked to Joss. "This is the impressive young man, I tested him myself, he shows the skills of a warrior." Sarodin stepped back. He went to a table and took out a piece of parchment, he picked up a feather pen and began writing down on it. Sarodin returned to the two, and handed it to Durim. "I will let you two become acquainted. Durim, that is a map of the land surrounding Arridan. Please meet me at the place I have marked down after the auditions are concluded, It is a lake surrounded by forest by the main road, shouldn't be hard to find." Sarodin looked at Joss one last time, then headed on his way.

((Sorry for the lack of posting, I just got back to school and drowned from the several projects in each class.))

Watching Cailen dart about, Drexel turned his head. The lines for auditions were thinning, just like the rope above the rogue pit, the amount of animals left to battle for duelists, and the spells left to be cast. He watched his examples, many more rogues were falling to the slithering monstrosities below them from parts of the rope ripping. Turning to the duelists auditions, Drexel saw that there were few animals left in cages, and soon people would have to fight what they were designated. Drexel turned once more to see the auditions for magisters. While he couldn't see into the room, Drexel noticed that more and more people attempting came out as failed from the lack of spells the judges hadn't seen. Many of them didn't know enough spells to be able to have backup. But when Drexel saw Dyani, he knew she had passed. Several hours had passed since the beginning of the auditions and Drexel was becoming annoyed with simply standing around with a lion pelt in his hand. Yet, he hadn't anywhere to go and didn't know what else to do, so he stayed put, waiting for a suggestion from someone else.

A blank expression, not bored or angered, appeared on Drexel's face. "Very well, I illy do see the rest of the city outside the markets.' He spoke. "Of course, because of this, I know little of those paths. Care to lead? I suggest we begin quickly, it seems that many others are getting the same idea and are beginning to exit the stadium in a developing crowd." People began walking towards the exits in a growing collection. Nodding, Drexel awaited Cailen to lead.

Dyani walked inside of the magister's quarters. They were very simple. Each room was furnished with a twin sized bed, a small nightstand and one dresser. She plopped on to her bed and fell asleep. She soon began to dream. The audition from before replayed in her mind. She woke up after the dream finished. Dyani's stomach grumbled loudly. She looked at her watch.
"Has it been only two hours?" Her stomach grumbled loudly.
"I guess it's time to eat." she thought. Dyani grabbed her coin purse and headed out for the market. When she arrived she was greeted by the smell of food cooking. While she was browsing a small group of people caught her attention. Two slightly bigger boys were picking on a smaller boy.
"I'll give you whatever you want so please stop bothering me!" The smaller kid protested.

"We don't want your money you spoiled brat. We want you to kneel to us. You're nothing but a disgrace. Because of your sister we don't want anything to do with you. Just disappear!" The bully laughed.
Dyani was shocked when she heard what the bully said. She headed over to where the bullies are and waited for the right moment to intervene.
One of the bullies held the boy while the other clenched his fist in order to punch the boy. He landed the punch, but Dyani successfully intervened and took the punch for the boy. The bullies were both surprised. Dyani did not flinch when she was punched.
"I'm his sister. It's because of me, your precious reputation is spoiled. Come on. Land as many punches on me as you want. I'm your real target." She said this with a big smile on her face, but Dyani's gold and blue eyes that stared at them truly became a scary sight, and the bullies ran away. Dyani glanced at her adoptive brother one more time and turned to leave.
"Wait!" the small boy yelled.