Live your life

[Saffra]

Saffra's eyes just continued to look at the small bottle. She could not understand the whole concept of dieing. Well, that was untrue. Saffra had witness many...many deaths over her long life, but could not imagine dieing herself, not from mortal means as far as an approximate time upon ones lifespan. her eyebrows lowered a little, but not to a frown, not really...it was a sad look on her face.

Saffra crossed her arms a little, shifting on her feet a little uneasily. She shook her head at the mention of cowardice of running away. Perhaps it was, but who was she to judge. If there was a cure, best to look for it, instead of waiting to pass on.

"You want to go with me? I have no complaints, really, but I don't have specific destinations I usually take. I was off to meet a knight, and let him know of progress of his group...but my information will probably be old news by the time I find him.."

Sighing, Saffra brought a hand to her forehead, and rubbed at it with delicate-looking fingers. What to do, what to do...

"Ah...fine, you can come with me I suppose...but where did you want to go anyways...?"

[Annette]

Annete eyes showed her determination. "Nowhere. I don't know where to go. But staying here won't change anything, it doesn't matter which one I choose. Live a happy life in this village for two years or leave this village to find my cure, I will die eventually." She placed her hand on her chest, feeling her own heartbeat which might only beat for another two years. The dancer looked at Saffra's eyes. "But if I have even a little chance to find my cure, I will try it. It is hard to leave the children in this orphanage. But I already make my decision."

Annete closed her eyes, trying to kill her doubt. Then she opened it and looked outside the window, looking to the stars on the night sky. "I have reason to live. I can't surrender."

"Well, if I have to die. At least I must explore world first. That is my other reason." She smiled. That was a selfish reason again, maybe no one will understand. For someone who had limited time to live, it was natural if she wanted to see the world until the time came when she couldn't do that again.

"And if I have to choose where to go, I want to go to a big city that has a big library, maybe I can find a useful information here. But I don't mind following you go to meet that knight. I don't really have anywhere to go after all."

[Saffra]

"Staying here certainly won't change anything.."

Saffra muttered half to herself, and nodded, agreeing with Annete's decision, better to go out an search for the cure, than to wait for it to possibly come to you, and possibly have it pass you by. Lifting her head, Saffra moved a strand of hair away from her face, and put it over her ear, making her eyes clearly visible, but she gave the girl a hard look, trying to see that resolve for herself.

"Well, I guess 'nowhere' is a good direction to start!" Saffra barked a laugh, and leaned on a wall, fixing her skirt a little.

"As far as I know, Delphi would have the largest library, considering that that is where a lot of magic users go to train. It only makes sense to me. I however, have no true clue."

[gabbiano]

OOC: If this isn't closed or anything, Gab was recently dropped from a thread. XD

IC:

The midnight moon crept from over the buildings, and Gabbiano, carrying mysterious cargo, wrapped his cloak around him and approached the door of a large building. He shivered; being Ilian, it was unlike him to be cold, but rather... he felt eerie as it was, which chilled his spine. He shook his hair, and gave three firm knocks on the door.

In a few seconds, the door slowly opened, and revealed a man of good height and a kind face.

Gabbiano spoke. "Mr. Raymond... I come bearing this package, I'm to deliver it to a young girl. Word is she's here."

The man looked quizzically at him, then opened the door wide, speaking quietly. "Yes, why, you look freezing. Take a step in."

And so, Gabbiano did. He unwrapped his cloak, and pulled from it a small baby blue jar. "This potion is for her."

[Annette]

OoC : This tread is always opened for everyone. But, it is too easy if Annete get it on her 11th post. I will figure how to respond in my next post.^_^

"You don't need to laugh. It is hurt my feeling a little." Annete turned her face, she felt embarrassed. Maybe "nowhere" was a good but also foolish answer after all, but she really didn't have any lead about where to go. "A-Anyway, I will keep trying, there must be a way to save my life."

She heard someone knock the door. "Miss Annete, someone come here to see you." It was Maria who knocked the door. "Thank Maria, gives me a minute and I will get there." Then she looked at Saffra. "I wonder who comes this late."

Then she followed Maria to downstairs and saw a man in green clothes. "Uuum, who are you?"

[gabbiano]

OOC: Yeah, I understand. Pretend it's poison or something. XD

IC:
Gabbiano was just as surprised to a see girl with such amazingly colored hair, followed by a dragon. He involuntarily took a step back and bit his lip.

"My name is Gabbiano," He started, removing his cloak, "and I've been hired to deliver something for a miss Annete Skyrider. It's a..." He stopped and tilted his head at the two, questioning why he was even here. He walked over to them, coming within feet.

"I don't quite know what this does, actually." He pulled the baby blue bottle from his cloak. "I was instructed to be sure this is delivered to you, under the message of 'this potion is a year's worth of another life.' I don't know what that means, I'm only here to drop it off. I don't really have anything else to.... well, I'm not really..." He stopped, and wondered if he should say anything.

"You see, I'm a thief, and although a chivalrous one, I'm off the job. I'm doing errand work for some elders here, one of which instructed me to bring this here. And at such a late hour..."

Gabbiano turned his head to the dragon-woman, was slightly intimidated, and turned back. "So... that is for you. He said you would know its use."

[Saffra]

Saffra's smirk remained, even despite being told that she had hurt the young girl's feelings. She truly doubted, Saffra probably only made Annete feel a little foolish. Looking to Maria as she came inside, her yellow, reptilian-like yellow eyes focused on the girl, and then shrugged to Annete, and followed her downstairs. Seeing the boy who had just came inside, with his package, all she could do was scowl.

Most of that scowl came from the mention that he was a thief. Being 'chivalrous' while being a thief was like, to take something abstractly, a kind hearted murderer. Saffra kept a stern gaze on him, with arms crossed, thankful for having her dragonstone on her in a way no thief could steal it with out her knowledge.

"My my Annete...you seem to have made a few friends in the short time you have been here, and of noble decent? I guess you have turned a few heads...no? But I don't advise accepting a gift from a person you have never met, least of all one in a vial."

[gabbiano]

Gabbiano laughed and shifted his weight, and set his cloak on the nearby seat to cool off. The heat started to get to him, being in a house, and wearing such a warm garment.

He smiled curiously at the Manakete, then turned to the girl. "She's right, you'd do well not to trust me." He paced a bit, throwing the vial in the air and then catching it. "But you have my honest word - the only honest thing about me, mind you - that this is nothing but an errand. From an anonymous sender, might I add... At least, I'm not to reveal his name." He stopped and raised his head quizzically.

"Though, I have to admit," he began, "that the fact that it's anonymous makes it seem more like a poison. Ah, well." Spontaneously, Gabbiano threw the vial the the man who welcomed it, who barely caught it with a grunt due to the surprise throw. "My name is Gabbiano." He craned and scratched his neck, glancing between the two women.

Then he bowed low.

"And I promise I mean you no harm." He smiled to himself while in bow, then came up.

[Silvine Knightwood]

Bluedoom entered into Annete's house and heard noises from upstairs. Looked like a nice discussion.

He walked up slowly,and then,said quietly,but politely:

"Um,excuse me,but does Miss Annete live here? I heard she is an amazing dancer. I just thought in I'd drop by and meet her. I'm just a squire seperated from my group,and I ended up here. So I would just like to stay with you people if its ok. The bartender told me I could trust Miss Annete."

[Annette]

OoC : Sorry, I have been busy lately. And Bluedoom, she don't live in a house but a orphanage^^.

Annete was about to take the potion from Gabbiano when Saffra warned her to not do it. She pulled back her hand and smiled to Saffra. "Thank you." Then she looked at the thief, " I won't force you to reveal his name, but please tell him that I appreciate his kindness." She knew who sent it although Gabbiano didn't tell her, she just questioned why they knew about her living in an orphanage in a small village. No one knew about her illness except the Skyrider family and Saffra, so it must be her family who did it. Well, there was another possibility to explain this but the chance was slim.

"Um,excuse me,but does Miss Annete live here? I heard she is an amazing dancer. I just thought in I'd drop by and meet her. I'm just a squire seperated from my group,and I ended up here. So I would just like to stay with you people if its ok. The bartender told me I could trust Miss Annete."

Then someone came in, she turned to him and smiled. "I am Annete. You can stay with us." She glanced at Saffra and Gabbiano. "It seems I have to prepare three rooms. And...Oh!! Wait here." She ran and disappeared behind the corner, then came back with three cups of warm tea. "You two must be tired. Here, drink the tea. And I make one for you too Saffra." She placed the cups on the table.

[gabbiano]

"W-What?" Gabbiano took a deep breath, then cuttingly let it out. "Um... I didn't intend to stay here." He looked at the floor.

He laughed quietly, then looked to the dragon-woman. "It would seem my kind is not welcome here. Isn't that so?"

He turned and looked at the strange man who just decided to walk on in. He raised an eyebrow at them, but then slowly nodded.

Gabbiano was at a loss for words upon being handed to the tea. Nonetheless, he sipped it.

[Silvine Knightwood]

Bluedoom looked back at Annete. "Why thank you miss. I appreciate your kindness. If only I could repay you in a way......"

He looked around the room. There was silence. Each one looked like they were about to drop.

And then he heard the green dressed man say"W-What?Um... I didn't intend to stay here.It would seem my kind is not welcome here. Isn't that so?

Bluedoom found those rather strange. He thought he was a friend of Annete. I guess this man was just another traveller as he. Well,since the group seemed to be travellers,he thought he could ask a question.

"Do any of you travel often? As much as I want to return to the castle,I have this urge to go to new places,make new friends,learn more fighting techniques. I would just like ot have this oppurtunity. If any of you are willing to take me along,if you are travelling,that would be kind of you. And it is not like I'm just going to be a burden. I have a lance. I can fight. And I also have a wyvern. You could use me in a lt of situatios if it pleases any of you.I'm not some rdinary kid who just wants to go sightseeing."

[Saffra]

Saffra blinked, looking to this newcomer, but she stayed composed. After many hundreds of years, she grew almost suspicious of everyone she met for the first time, except Annete, because of the kind of girl she was. She didn't see her as any kind of threat. Looking to Bluedoom, she bowed her head to him in greeting, but left it at that, there was nothing more she had to say, atleast then. This wasn't her home, so she had no authority there.

"Don't worry about my room Child.." Saffra spoke softly, picking up the tea cup, and holding it within both hands. "I have a place set up in the forest not far from here."

That was a bit of a lie, but she slept in her dragon form, so that was all the defense she needed. She was much more frail in this mortal shell, and was a but wary from staying in it for too long, even though the dragon body was much harder to maintain.

"Travel often? I suppose you could say I do, to an extent. I never stay in one place too long.."

[Annette]

Annete looked at Gabbiano. "I welcome you to stay here tonight,but if you want to stay. I won't force you. But I have to say that you won't get room in inn, many people came here yesterday." That people came here to see her dance yesterday, they made the village more crowded than usual. Then she smiled at Saffra. "Well, if you say so..." She was a little disappointed but didn't show it and kept her smile.

She turned to bluedoom. "You can travel with us. We will leave this village soon, maybe tomorrow." Someone overheard their conversation behind the wall, then he ran upstair.

Annete turned to Gabbiano. "And you can come with us too."

[Silvine Knightwood]

"Why thank you Miss Annete. Its a real pleasure to be travelling with you."

He heard someone run upstairs. What was that all about?'

Bluedoom stared at the green robed man. He definetly did not look comfortable. He looked as if he was a fish out of water. And yet,the man seemed kindhearted,at least to bluedoom's naive eyes.

He wanted to say something,but then he didnt. He felt he was being a bit rude,and he was talking too much. He stood silent. He was never great at starting conversations. He would just have to wait for someone to say something.