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Ever since the events that had befallen him during the opening night of the carnival, Marlin had found himself on extended rest.

His father had taken over running the shop for a few days citing that he should use the opportunity to take a little break and Lisa had been in full mother hen mode despite the fact that Marlin really hated people fussing over him and had pointed out (several times) that (a) he was fine and (b) he was well able to look after himself.

It was probably just as well that his mother was out of town and tied up in things that she couldn't leave otherwise Marlin reckoned that she would probably turned up in Destiny City and tried to mother hen him too.

Mrlin drawn the line at Lisa's pointed suggestions that he go home with them and spend a few nights at their place, pointing out that the flat above the shop was pretty locally located and that he had friends he could call on if needs be. He had also pointed out that he had a full freezer and a working microwave and had promised not to try cooking anything while his hands were still bandaged up.

He had heaved a sigh of relief once his father had shut up shop and collected Lisa from his apartment, rung his mother to confirm once again that yes he was okay.

It was therefore later than planned when Marlin was able to leave his apartment. After finding somewhere that looked private enough he allowed himself to power up to Falias before leaving the alley and continuing on his way, heading towards the library. Falias' ultimate goal was to try and find Camelot - since that fall out of the carnival he'd been left with questions - questions he was hoping the Earth Knight would be able to answer.

Falias had heard the footsteps, but hadn't equated it as having anything to do with him and so had kept walking.

That was until the footsteps sped up and a voice had called out for someone to wait up.

Slowly dawning on him that perhaps whoever it was might be hailing him, Falias had slowed his pace and then finally stopped, turning to look behind him in the direction where the voice had come from.

The voice had sounded feminine, but whoever it was keeping the hood on their sweatshirt firmly on their head.

She - he was going to go with she - seemed to be staring at him, although Falias was unsure why - he was pretty sure that he'd never seen her before although with the hood and the darkness of the evening obscuring her features.

The staring had started to get a bit uncomfortable when she suddenly spoke, although the question wasn't one that he'd been expecting.

"Sworn to Earth too?" He looked puzzled. "What do you mean by that?" Falias was pretty sure he had sworn anything to anyone or anything - at least not since leaving school.

"Well I'm a Page of Earth" Falias admitted. "But I didn't know it meant swearing to anything. It just..." A brief moment of hesitation on his part "Happened" he finised somewhat lamely.

It had quite literally just happened - one minute he had been trying to run for his life from two hound-like things as Marlin and the next he was sporting an outfit change and finding out that he was apparently a Page of Earth, monsters existed and the two things that had been trying to kill him were examples of them.

He looked at the hooded woman curiously "How do you know so much about the symbols anyway?" Falias had had no idea that the crossed circle was actually supposed to represent Earth, although granted he hadn't tried to find out either.

"More like chased by hound monster things" Falias admitted. And he honestly had no idea what was behind it all - it wasn't like he'd been at this (whatever this was) particularly long. It had been April - not exactly that long ago.

He blinked as the other pulled out a memo pad, eying the writing implement warily. "You're not some kind of reporter are you?" Falias didn't particularly want to find himself ending up as part of a news report - besides he'd heard some of the news reports on Destiny City's 'terrorist' situation and it generally wasn't particularly flattering.

Falias gave the woman an annoyed look as she casually dismissed his answer, his annoyance temporarily overridding her worry that she might be some undercover reporter "Look given that you already seem to know the answers, why are you asking me?" After all he'd been pretty much honest with what happened - it wasn't his fault that he didn't have whatever answer she seemed to think he should have.

His annoyance lessoned somewhat at her response to his 'are you a reporter question', Falias starting to feel a little bad at his outburst and then felt himself getting annoyed all over again at her 'only yourselves to blame comment'.

"Look lady" he sighed. "Just insert whatever answer you think should be the catalyst as a response. After all you pretty much seem to have much more answers than me."

Yes he was being (as his mother would say) rude. No he didn't care.

Falias sighed "Look all I can tell you is what happened to me and that is that one minute monsters were chasing me and the next minute I'm suddenly like this - I have no idea why it happened or why me instead of someone else."

He frowned slightly as he remembered what Camelot had told him "But the Knight who rescued me said that it happened because the magic judged me worthy and thought I needed it."

He sighed again as he added "It's as good a reason as any." Especially since he was convinced that when it came to magic someone out there was laughing at him given that magic in his case seemed to consist of an outfit change and a piece of mistletoe which was just that - a piece of mistletoe.