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Zoei scratched his head the shrugged at her choice before following her to the game shop. "I hope they have those new cards in that's not made out of paper this time. That way I won't have to get mine ruined." He commented as he browsed through all the unique and crystal looking dice.

Lavi walked over picking up one of the lutes, checking it's weight, tuning it some before picking up a few backup strings and purchasing it. He knew he had more then enough what they asked for and was quite good at haggling down the price as well. Walking outside he handed it to her with the extra strings in a small bag. "Fair trade I believe, I teach you to fish and you teach me to play the Lute. Also this way we have something nice to listen to around the fires or on the trip period. I'd also love to hear your singing more on the trip as well." He smiled as he waited for her reaction.

It took Radar awhile to finally get free of the Order and their lectures, he walked by the priest he spoke with earlier and thanked him for gathered what he needed, double checking over everything. "This should suit us well." He smiled softly before heading out, with the book in hand.

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Seeing how scared Mele was on the horse, Demyan mounted it, sitting behind her. He kept his hurt arm around her while his other steered the horse. "I'll be alright, I'm here."

Ezri picked out several sets of cards, all coated slightly so they wouldn't ruin easily, handing them over to him for inspection, "They have lots of really interesting dice here," she said looking them over, while he was hopefully distracted with the cards she picked out a few sets he seemed to admire and handed them to the shopkeeper to be placed in a bag for him. "So, do those cards pass?"

Santha's face lit up with a bright smile when he handed her the lute, "Your sure its not too much? Their so expensive," she asked, not wanting him to not have money he may need for something that wasn't necessary. "I mean, I love it, and I'd love to teach you, then you can play and I can dance, and," she trailed off throwing her arms around his neck in a tight hug. "Thank-you so much!


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Mele did her best to relax against Demyan, carefully placing her arms over his injured one around her waist, "I've never, ridden on one before," she said softly, feeling safer now that he was sitting with her, she kept her head down slightly, he hadn't said what he had disguised them as, but she knew that he had because it was easier.

Zoei took his time looking at the card Ezri handed him, then a few odd other before decided to keep the ones that were coated that she handed him. "These work. Though I could check the North Kingdom when we get there to see if they have what I'm talking about." Watching as Ezri was purchasing something he was quick and sly about pilfering a side deck before walking up and paying for two others. It was how he was trained and he wasn't about to pay so much for a deck like the one he pilfered. "Anything else from here you want to look at?"

The sudden hug shocked him a bit as it knocked Lavi off balance and onto his butt. He kept an arm around Santha though so she wouldn't get hurt in the fall before he started to laugh. "It wasn't to expensive. Remember I do save and I have more than enough."

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"I should teach you how to ride then. It would help in the future." Riding up to a ranchers stables he got off the horse and helped Mele down before talking to the man and just handing him the Mare. "There's no need to trade, The horse has been on a long journey and needs a new home to graze. She's a good animal and I'm sure she'll be of better use to you than us." After talking to the man he wrapped his arm around Mele and walked into town with her, finding a place for them to eat.

Ezri shrugged softly, she had plenty of food and things on the list for the cart, "Not really," she answered walking outside with him she placed the pouch and the dice it contained in his hand with a small smile, "We still have some time, lets just do some walking around," hooking her arm through his she walked with him through a few more of the stands, pausing only to look at a stand that sold scarves and gloves and the like. She looked some of them over, frowning a bit at the prices of some of the nicer looking ones, epically a velvety one she seemed to like, scrunching up her nose some, "Winter's still a ways off, we're barely through spring," she said thinking a moment, "Unless there's something you may just want for the journey, I'd say we're done,"

Santha squeaked as they fell, chuckling softly when Lavi laughed, she carefully let him go so he could stand getting to her feet herself, taking time to dust off. "I didn't mean to make you fall," she apologized softly, waiting for him to get up before taking his hand, the other keeping a safe hold on the lute. She was thoughtful for a few moments before stepping up to a stand, finding a nice sturdy case that it would fit in, so it wouldn't get smashed on their journey "I need to find a cloth to wrap it in, but if I use a nice scarf, then when its colder I'll have that to wear, or maybe I can sew a cloth to the inside, although I don't think that would wrap as well," she spent a moment putting the lute into the case and moving the spare strings to the small inner pocket, hugging the case lightly to her chest. "Or if I just got material and thread, I could make it a wrap!"

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Mele nodded softly, she'd seen lots of people riding horses but it had always been out of the question for her to even try people always paid attention to someone on a horse, and attention to her was always a bad thing. She leaned lightly into Demyan's arm pointing out a place that looked to have good food, and one of the stands that clearly did sell knish's. "How about there for breakfast?"

Zoei looked through the bag as he walked with Ezri, a smile crossing his lips. "Thanks." He spoke softly, meaning it as he put them in his pocket with his old dice. Watching as she looked though the scarfs he noticed how the velvet one sparked her interest then nods. "Oh, no I say a stroll would do me some good after being cooped up in a room for so long.Think you can meet me at the fountain?" He handed her some coins. "Go buy yourself somethign sweet to eat. I'll join you there in a second." He wasn't about to tell her what he was planning.

"We can stop by a fabric shop and pick up the materials you need." Lavi suggested as he dusted himself off once he was on his feet. "It still gets rather cold at night so we can see what they have to help."

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Demyan walked over to the stand with Mele. "Alright then, sence this is what you were craveing we'll start out with one of these." He nodded towards her letting her know she can pick hers and his out as he gave her the coins to pay for it.

"Your welcome, I was hoping you would like them," Ezri smiled softly and nodded, "Want me to get you anything?" she asked, waiting for him to answer before heading to the food stands.

Santha thought for a moment tapping her chin, "I know Ezri said that we have lots of extra blankets and cushions in the cart this time," shaking her head lightly she used her free hand to grab onto Lavi's. "There was a fabric stand over this way," she said leading him over to it, once there she looked over the different colors of fabric carefully feeling them as well, "You don't want something scratchy, but you don't want something thats a yucky color either," she explained picking up a small container of buttons and patch up kits as well.

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Mele grinned happily, simply paying for things with coins was something that gave her this feeling of joy, it may have been because of how normal a thing it was to do, and one that she hadn't really been able to, getting the two best they had and paying, she handed one up to Demyan, almost immediately biting into hers, "These are really good," although they were under one of his illusions, she stayed close to him, someone could feel her horns even when they couldn't see them.

"No, i'm good. You just take your time. I've heard there's quite a big selection when it comes to the treat they sell." He waited patiently for Eari to go off and get out of his sight before walking back to where they were selling the scarfs. Knowing he only had so much gold now he was unsure if he could buy that scarf for her or not. He waited for the shpo owner to get to busy with another customer or go in the back room before he pilfered it. He wasn't about to tell Ezri what he did, but he made sure no one saw and walked out making sure to put it in one of their existing bags. He wanted to make sure to give it to her after they left the kingdom. He finally met up with Ezri after awhile and sat next to her. "So what did you get?"

Lavi looked through the fabrics they had listening to Santha. "You'd also want something to move in that was comfortable." He added. Picking up a medium sized sewing kit, he made sure there was a good enough amount of thread in multiple colors as well as the ones most used. Sewing needles, thimbles, patches and much more before buying it for the trip.

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Demyan took it not really fond of the meal but didn't show her that and walked with her to a nice shady spot to eat. "We still have a ways to go."

"Chocolate pie," she answered offering him a bite, "Its one of my favorites, and not something thats easy to find out on the road," she waved her arm offering him the seat next to her, "Its a shame to leave here, this place can be so peaceful at times, although I've grown pretty accustomed to traveling."

Santha picked out a a few fabrics, and then an embroidery kit, paying for them and taking the bag over to Lavi, "You can put those in here if you want, so all the sewing things will be together," she suggested, smiling softly. "Its getting near lunch time, think we should go meet Mister Radar now?

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Mele nodded lightly, sitting between him and one of the trees, "How much longer do you think it will take?" she asked softly, genuinely curious. After finishing her meal, she leaned back on her elbows, before lying on the grass completely. It was nice and warm although she knew Demyan preferred dark rooms, sometimes being in the warmth of the sunlight was nice.

"You can't just find a recipe and the ingrediants to make it?" Zoei questioned as he sat next to her refuseing the pie. "Every place holds their secrets." Meaning from him, no matter how peaceful it may seem everyplace is usually bad.

"Yeah, He woke up pretty early and didn't look so good, I should have went with him, but I rather say away from any Order." Lavi took the bag from Santha as he started to head back to the tavern with her. "Looks like he's already waiting on us." He pointed Radar out.

Radar was already packing the packages that were sent to the tavern, making sure that everyone had room to sit in the coach. Looking up he waved to Santha and Lavi a small smile comming from him.

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"To get to the next town, It would take another day and a half most likely if we take it slow." He decided to take his time and let Mele enjoy herself and not demolish this place yet. Strangly it put him at peace. "Let's see if we can find any other Users here before we leave. Just keep it on the down low."

"Chocolate isn't one of the easier things to cook, although I supposed if I had time I could get it right," she said listening to him as she finished off the pie, leaving her payment under the plate. She got to her feet, adjusting her cloak for a moment. "Anything else you need before we head out?" she asked


Santha waved at Radar when he smiled at them, "I don't blame you for that at all," she walked up to the cart looking it over. "Anything we can do to help Mister Radar?"


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Mele made an affirmative noise nodding softly, "The closer we get to the Eastern Kingdom the harder it was going to be to ask about or locate any Users without arising suspicion about ourselves." she said quietly seemingly lost in thought for a moment, "Although, as long as we're careful it'll be okay." she watched the people moving around the town, keeping an eye out for any signs that someone was hiding something, or that someone was nervous about being around other people.

"I wouldn't know I don't really cook to well." Zoei got to his feet as he rested a hand on his hip. "I say we head out, i'm sure everyone is waiting on us by now."

Radar smiled as he gave Santha a nod. "Could you help me double check and make sure everything is here and secure?"

Lavi made his way around seeing that they had two horses he nodded and pated their noses. "We have backup feed for these horses?"

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Demyan took a few more minutes to relax before getting to his feet. He didn't notice anything out of the ordinary and he wanted to get to Mele's old home as soon as possable. "You ready?"

Ezri nodded softly, leading the way to the cart, once there she walked over to Radar placing and arm around him in a hug, "Feeling better I see?" she said, looking over at the cart and their stuff, "Looks like we're about ready to head out, don't you think?" she looked over at Zoei with her question.

Santha checked over Ezri's list and the items in the cart, "Yea," she answered Lavi, handing him her lute while she climbed up checking the rest of the boxed. "Looks like it to me," sitting down on the edge of the cart she reached her arm out, offering to hold her lute again.

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Mele nodded softly getting to her feet and dusting off her dress, "Think we should pick up something that we can have for dinner later? Or wait?" She asked softly,

Radar handed Santha back her Lute as he gave Ezri a small nod. "I have the book and we should be ready." He gave he a light hug back as he walked around the coach and got in the drivers seat waiting for everyone.

"I say we head out, we have a long way ahead of us." Zoei jumped in the coach offering a hand to help Ezri up.

Lavi climbed up and sat next to Radar up front, he looked back making sure everyone was seated and accounted for.

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Demyan was already ahead of her. He walked over to a food stand, making sure he grabbed Mele's hand so she could be next to him and picked up a few things before heading to the stables and getting a new horse.

Ezri took Zoei's hand stepping up into the cart walking over so she was near the drivers seat and messing with the blankets a moment, after a bit she had several set out into what would make sitting more comfortable. Waiting for everyone to sit down she grinned at Zoei before turning to Radar, "Lets be off then!"

Santha sat back against some of the blankets Ezri had fixed, taking out her lute and messing with it lightly, carefully wrapping it in a piece of the material they had gotten before placing it back into its case, not yet closing it up.


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Mele stayed close to Demyan, taking the food stuffs from him so he would have his hands free at the stable when messing with the horse, she watched him with the horse, she would rather walk for a while, but it would take much longer than one of his comfortable coaches, and there was the risk of being seen.

Radar nods as he snaps the reigns and gets the coach moving out of town.

Zoei sat on the floor leaning against one of the walls before yawning some. He was still a bit worn out from all that went on lately. He kept a package close to him as they headed out of town, not sure when he'd want to give it to Ezri yet.

Lavi smiled watching Santha a bit before going back to help Radar keep a watch out on the trail.

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Easily getting the horse out of the small town Demyan conjured up another coach, a bit bigger this time so Mele could lay down comphy in one of the seats if she ever got tired. "Make sure to keep a lookout on the road here and there for any lone user just traveling as well. I'll be doing the same." He informed her before helping her in the coach and stepping in behind her, taking his seat as he closed the door.

Radar placed the book in a safe place where it couldn't be seen and walked over to he Santha and Lavi.

Lavi made sure to help out, handing what they needed down to Radar and Santha before getting down himself. "Not a bad place for a rest. You have a good eye Ezri." Helping Santha carry the tent over he started to unwrap it.

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"Acually we have some one moving all of our luggae to our new home to the North Kingdom We're from the South. We thought we'd do best for a change. So We made sure not to bring much with us for safer reasons. Also, some tea sounds great. If you have anything to eat, it would be greatly apreciated as well." He took out his pouch and took out a few coins to pay for the room and food. "Will this be enough?"

Finding his way over to a window without being seen, the User peeked up over a window to spy on what was going on.

Demyan nudged Mele some to let her know to look at the window and react to it, a bit curious on how this all will fair out.

Ezri gave the horses both water and food, letting them have their fill. "Thanks," she answered to Lavi, helping them set up that tent, explaining each step to Santha, knowing it would take a few tries for her to get it right. "Lavi would you get some branches for a fire? We have some in the cart, but I don't want to use them unless we have to," she explained, not sure when or if they would go through a barren section.

Santha was cheerful about learning to build up a tent, once the first was done, she carefully spread out the ground cover and took a few blankets to make a nice soft bed for someone to lay on. Soon catching up to Lavi, in order to help him as well. "Can I help?" she asked softly.

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"Dinner can be ready shortly," she answered taking his coins, "Yes it'll cover it just fine," being in such a small village, their tavern didn't charge as high as most would, generally making it a practice to not take more then it seemed a traveler could easily afford, it was her fathers place and he didn't believe in people having to have it hard when they could easily help.

Mele seemed to be innocently looking around, pausing as her gaze reached the window, she cried out turning to hide against Demyan's chest. Acting all the part of a terrified plebian, something she has seen enough herself, she frowned while hidden against him, she didn't like scaring the user, she knew what it was like when people reacted like this to her own differences.

The young lady turned toward the window, stepping backwards until her back was flush against the counter, seeming spooked right off, "Its, its okay," she tried to sooth them. She'd never seen a user up close and was a little scared from the stories she had always heard.

"Sure." Lavi responded to Santha leading her out a bit farther as he started to pick up random dead branches. Make sure not to get to many live branches, they crackle to much causeing noise as well as they can create sparks." He tried to explain.

Radar started to gather the stones and placed them in a circle where they would be making the fire. "You think we should just let Zoei sleep and wake on his own, or you wake him?"

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Demyan held Mele closer backing up a bit as an act. "I think that's the one we saw earlier." Looking down he acted as if he was trying to sooth his wife. "Should we get someone or something to deal with it?" He knew all to well how the Plebians acted in diffrent ways against Users so he used it to the best of his knowledge.

The Users ears folded back as he was started by the scream and fell back, landing on the empty crates, making a terrible racket. He tried to scramble to his feet to run away but noticed his foot was caught but unsure of what had it.

Demyan was grinning on the inside knowing all to well that he had this user in his grasp. Even useing one of his trapping tecniques to keep the User in place. If he could get everyone around hateing it, then it would be easier to bring it to his side.

"I'd let him sleep until dinner, then if he's still out I'll wake him, Ezri answered, she knew Zoei was still worn out from the last few days, and wanted him at his best for the Eastern Kingdom. Sine they had time, she took out one of the bigger pots filling it halfway with the clean water and pulled out potatoes and a few other random vegetables starting to cut them up and toss into the pot, making what would be a small but what should be tasty vegetable stew for them."Its too bad we don't have a rabbit to put in, that would be great," she said softly, thinking at the next town to get a little more hunting gear.

Santha nodded, doing her best to only pick up branches that didn't have any green spots on the inside, holding as much as she could wanting to be helpful.

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"Y-yes," she managed, stumbling herself as she moved to the back of the tavern, "FATHER!"

It only took a few moment for him to have several of the men of the village moving to where the user was, sending his daughter back inside to tend to the guests that the tavern had.

Mele pressed closer to Demyan her fear a little less an act as she heard the men yelling back and fourth about weapons, she didn't like this, she didn't want the user to get hurt, she whimpered softly as someone rushed past them, her arms wrapping around Demyan's waist tightly.

"Its alright," the girl said to them softly, trying to keep them calm after hearing Mele's whimper, "How about if we move into one of the other rooms, I'm sure it will be safer there," she glanced back at the window, she wasn't sure about this user, all she knew about them was what she had heard about them being dangerous.

Well we could hunt for a rabbit or something besides that, but it would take a bit of time just to do so and I'm sure everyone is tired enough. Besides, you'd still need to clean and carve the poor creature." Radar had a smaller book in hand this time as he sat on one of the blankets, he was already half way through with this one sense he started reading it when he was back home. He flipped the page quietly. "You know, being at the rank I am, I wasn't allowed to leave the kingdom period."

Lavi chuckled seeing Santha trying to carry so many branches, he already had a good sized bundle under one of his arms but he still took some of her load from her so she could at least walk right. "Here, let me help you with that."

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Demyan nodded as he helped Mele into one of the rooms. "I can take care of my sweetheart here, why don't you make sure your Father is alright."

Being pinned down by shovels and pitchforks was one thing the user didn't expect. He tried to get up only to have one of the Plebians force him back down by snagging his demonic like wing on his left arm, as a crunch then ripping sound came from it, only to hear a scream of pain afterwords.

Demyan pulled Mele's head close, cover her ears so she couldn't hear a single noise and he rested his forehead against hers, trying to let her know it was alright.

Ezri paused at that, "Because of high rank? You couldn't leave? Thats not right at all," she shook her head lightly, peeling the top layer of the carrots to give to the horses as a snack later.

Santha blushed lightly when he had to take some of hers, she wanted to be helpful not make more work for him, "Once dinner is started, I can teach you some notes," she offered carefully setting the branches a little ways from the fire.

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Despite his efforts Mele could barely hear the scream, she tightened her grip on him wanting to be brave but both terrified and upset that the other user getting her was her fault too. She buried her head deeper into his chest, trying hard not to cry at the muffled sounds she could hear.

She agreed and headed out, reaching the side of the building just as she heard the scream, she paused stunned at what she saw, while yes he was a user, he hadn't hurt anyone here.
Thinking quickly she ran to the other side of the tavern, making sure no one could see her and screaming like she was being hurt.

Her father froze in place at hearing the scream, directing all of the men but one to where came from.

She pointed off into the woods, saying there were more and that they went that way, watching as her father and the other men went after them, although her father pausing to make sure she was okay, rounding the corner she winced at seeing the boy on the ground was hurt. "I can watch him, father and the other men need your help," she said holding a pitchfork in her hand, taking another moment to convince the other man to go along.
As soon as they were out of sight she dropped the tool turned weapon. "Are you hurt badly?" she asked, she was still a little afraid of the user, but knew he was hurting, she took a small but clean towel from her apron pocket and carefully held it to his shoulder, "You can't stay here, it isn't safe," she watched his eyes for a moment before looking down to his shoulder. "I'm sorry, I don't think you mean to hurt anyone, you don't seem like it."

"It's apart of the contract. But I felt my rank was of no importance compaired to what we need to deal with." He looked up just slightly from his book as his glasses slid down his nose some. "You need help wth anything?"

"That sounds great, as long as we don't stay up to late. I want to get up early enough so i can show you how to fish some." Lavi grinned at her blush a small blush comming from his face as well as they headed towars the camp.

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"You need not to cry Mele, It's all going to plan." A twisted grin came across Demyans face he was already pictureing in his mind how he was going to get this user to come join them.

The user inched back tighter agaist the wall as flinched when the towel touched him. His ears stayed drooped down in fear and his multi colored eyes looked up at her. He wasn't sure what to think, only that this all happened to quickly. He wrapped his tail around his wait still unsure, but wanting to be careful just in case. "I don't understand." He spoke in a nervious tone. "The people of this town hates Users, yet you let two of them in your home so warmly. Why?"

"If you want to give the horses a treat," she said shaking her head a bit, "so they keep priests on contracts now, and here I thought you were just a holy man," she grinned lightly at him, "I'm sure you talked them down, probably made them feel like scolded children," she joked knowing how Radar could be. "Once we get the fire started, dinner won't be long after,"

Seeing Ezri had dinner handled she carefully got out her lute, sitting a little away from where the fire was going to be, and carefully strumming it a bit. "Well, it generally takes a while to learn, but we have lots of time right?"

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Mele simply held onto him, not lifting her head up from his chest, just trying to stay calm knowing, hoping, that he had things under control.

"What are you talking about?" she asked softly confused, "You mean that married couple? The ones who are my fathers age? Do you know them, that you know their Users?" She was genuinely confused at his words, "They said they wanted to stay because his wife was scared by something she saw in the woods," seeing his shoulder still bleeding she bit her lip lightly, moving forward and holding the towel against it, "The bleeding has to stop, it will get infected,"

Radar chuckled a bit at that as he got to his feet, taking the carrot shaveing and went over t feed the horses. "I didn't talk to them. I only spoke with my under study. He was worried about me safely returning so I told him i'd keep in contact. I trust him like I trust you. As soon as we make it to a town i'll send his a carrier pigeon to let him know everything is alright. Just how I did with you once I moved away."

Lavi made sure to place what they gathered to wherever Ezri wanted it. "I hope this is more than enough for tonight and maybe to take with us just in case." Looking back at Santha he gave her a small nod. "We have plenty of time."

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The User slid up against the wall till he was on his feet faceing her. Pointing to his golden eye he explained. "I have the power to see through illusions, traps, and other false things. I can see it all through this eye and those two you let in so warmly are Users like I am, just under some illusion that your eyes cannot see. It shoudn't matter though, for why should you trust my words, you probally trust everything else that your kind tell you about us." He didn't like being mean to her, but he knew with all these reactions around him that a Plebian coud never like a User such as himself. "They'll be back, I bet if they get a hold of me again it won't be just one of my wings i'll loose. Then again with how your reaction was when you first saw me, I should never come back here again."

"Clever User isn't he. He'll be a great addition." Demyan stroked Mele's hair softly as he could hear everything going on outside and around him with his sharp hearing.

"Well, when you moved, I knew where you were going, dad had to take you guys there himself. Although, you are starting to sound more like me, just taking off without any warning," Ezri made a soft tisking noise at him, turning her attention to Lavi, "We shouldn't need much just to burn through the night," she answered starting a small pile of wood to work up into a fire, "I do wish there was an easier way to do this part,"

Santha grinned lightly, playing a more cheerful more dance like song for a few moments, although keeping the tone soft so as not to disturb Zoei.

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Her eyes showed nothing but confusion at his words, slowly changing to realization that he was saying he did, or had liked her. She tried to ignore the harshness of his words and shook her head lightly. "You shouldn't stay anywhere where you will get hurt," she answered quietly, taking a deep breath trying to be calm, "The men, they will be back soon, you'll get hurt again if you don't leave, you can go inside and talk to the other Users if you want, but you must be quick, or else they may hurt you again." She was shaking lightly, no longer afraid of him, but just upset in general.

Mele stayed quiet realizing Demyan could hear what was happening even though she could not. "Can we leave soon?" she almost whispered, she didn't like this village anymore at all.

She had tears in her eyes and shook them away, pushing open the door to the tavern, "Their in the second room back, right through there, if you want to talk to them,"

Radar chuckled. "I did give you warning though as well as the other priest. You're just irrational all together." He joked back.

Lavi tilted his head to the side, watching Ezri now. Slipping off one of his gloves he lowered it to where se was trying to make a fire, using a small amount of his User powers to start one almost instantly. "Is that easier?" He wondered as he slipped his glove back on.

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The User placed a claw to his lip. He didn't mean to make her cry, but he also knew he wasn't welcomed here to most places now to be exact. "Tray," He told her. "My name is Tray." He ran his hand through his hair not caring to much about his wound at the moment.

Demyan was already back on his feet by now, holding Mele in his arms as he carried her downstairs. He grinned as remove the illusion. Looking down at the young Tavern girl, he was more than happy to frighten her. When they reached the bottom of the stairs he placed Mele down gently. "Take this young user to our coach."

Tray looked at Demyan then back at the girl a frown across his face, but he knew that this was probally the best way. "I'm sorry." He muttered softly under his breath as he watched Mele.

Ezri smiled at Lavi, "Much easier, thank-you," Once the fire was blazing she carefully set the pot on rocks she had stacked to hold it, getting a good flame that would heat it well but not use up too much wood. "Oh, I am not," she teased back a Radar, "Just because I up and left home to travel on and on and on with no warning to anyone that I was going to do it, just a note the day I left," She grinned a bit shaking her head some with a small laugh. "Well, Maybe a little irrational."

Santha turned her attention the her lute after seeing Lavi start the fire, she was glad his powers could be helpful, she thought they were amazing but he didn't seem to like them at all. Frowning softly she was lost in thought.

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"Tray," she repeated softly, glancing up and backing away when she saw Demyan, to her Mele looked rather harmless, she was so small and clung to him almost like a child, but his grin, full of malice and hate was terrifying. She took a step back giving them space to pass, not looking up at Demyan. "I understand," she almost whispered, clearly terrified of Demyan, not knowing she likely had good reason to be.

Mele nodded mutely a soft sigh as she led Tray to their coach, carefully looking for any other villagers that might see them along the way. Before holding the door to it open for him, "We need some medical things," she said softly to Demyan seeing the blood on Tray.

"i say that was irresponsible instead then." Radar laughed. He took his glasses off to wipe then clean some before setting them back on his nose. "And you say your friend Zoei doesn't think."

Lavi tilted his head some, listening to Radar and Ezri joke to each other, he shook his head, finding a good place to sit, making sure he wasn't to close to the rest of the group. Taking off his gloves, he took a small nail filers out and secretly filed down the claws on his hands. He didnt want anyone to get hurt by them, not have anyone know about them.

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Tray looked down and took Mele by the arm, pulling her inside the coach with him. "We'll make due, the plebians are coming back soon, you can already see their torches getting bigger. By the way your friend looked, he's the type that would kill anything or anyone who would hurt you. So stay in here."

Demyan waited for them to leave before walking up to the tavern girl, grabbing her chin just slightly. "It's a shame that poor User seemed like he's been watching over you for a long time. Kind of like he fell in love with such a filthy being. So in respect of our new fighter. I'll let you live, but in return you grab us a medical kit so we can tend to him while we're on our way. Its not like you ever cared back. So there's no loss to you."

"I thought it through a lot before hand," she said shaking her head, "I still keep in contact with a few, its just better this way," she explained stirring what would soon be a nice vegetable stew.

Seeing Lavi off by himself for a bit, she watched him seemingly down before walking around and simply sitting behind him with her back leaned lightly against his. "I hope it stays nice like this for a while," she said very softly, not concerned with what he was doing to his hands, to her it had simply looked like he was trimming his nails, a normal thing to do, "It can be really relaxing."

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The girl stepped away from him quickly, getting one of the larger medical kits they had behind the counter, handing it to him, and backing well out of his reach. "How can you care for someone you have never met," she said softly, obviously terrified of Demyan.

Mele frowned softly but pulled the coach door so that it was almost closed, sitting on the side Demyan normally took, she wrapped her capulet around her shoulders taking a deep breath, "I'm Mele," she said softly, making sure there was plenty of room on the seat for Demyan, "He's Demyan," she resisted the urge to move the curtain and watch for him, she knew he could take care of himself, but worried with the Plebians returning.

"I know, you a lot more responsible than most I know Ezri." Radar smiled. "I really respect that about you."

Santha leaning against his back didn't seem to startle Lavi one bit, he gotten used to her being around him, it actually made him more at peace. "I do to, I feel it's better to take this day by day, not think about the future for awhile, you know what I mean?"

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"Exactly, how can 'You' care for someone 'You' have never met. Though it seems like he probably remembers and knows a lot more than you would ever know." He took the kit and rested it under his good arm. "As for us, he's a User like us, so we can take care of our brethren easily." Turning away from her he started to head out the door, pausing to look back at her once more. "Next time we cross paths may it not be on bad terms, for your sake." With that he walked out the door and to the coach, entering it as he closed the door behind him letting the coach ride off. He sat next to Mele handing her the kit.

"My name is Tray." He said softly as he kept a sad look on his face. He looked up as Demyan entered the coach then back down, leaning his back against his seat.