First Impressions [Newo/Argus]

[Newo]

“Hehe, come on Blummy-kins settle down for mama!” Newo laughed as she patted the wyvern head, spoiling him with attention as she always did she spoke sweetly to her partner. “Now stay put okay? It’s just a few feet but I need to collect some frost surviving herbs for that antibiotic we’re working on.” The Wyvern stifled a low grumble, cocking its head to the side, much like a household dog. Newo sighed and petted the scales mount once again, and drew her lance from her saddle, holding it with the head facing up like a staff. “See Blum? Nothing will happen, and if I need your help I’'ll give you a shout.” With that she quickly gave a peck on the mount’s snout, and walked off into the trendline they had landed by, humming a time all the way.

It was mid-day, the sun out as she continued to move. She wore her armor with a fur overcoat stop of it with a real scarf for warmth, her helmet was strapped to her left along with a pouch to carry the herbs she collected, and She carried her lance. What could really get her out here? The sun reflected in her ginger ponytail as she continued to walk somewhat carefree through the area. “Now if I had medicinal properties where would I be…?” Not realizing she was a good 100 meters from her wyvern, she stood in the same spot, on hand tapping her forehead as she looked back and forth in her peripheral vision. “Hmm, pretty odd they would be all the way out here…especially since nothing grows”

[Argus]

The clanking of armor alerted her to the presence of a man walking from the direction of carrahae. He is wearing green armor with fur sticking out of it, his helmet on his head, as he stepped along jauntily. Stopping only to wave and say "Hello there! That wyvern yours?" He begins to walk towards her. His steps are as light as they could be with armor that heavy. He stares at the wyvern. He seems happy and rather excited to see it. He stops just in front of Nowe.He sems to be ecaluating her. It's... Slightly insettling. But he seems to be innocent enough.

"Sooo... What's it like to be able to see the world from up so high? And do you eve fear of falling? What gender is your wyvern? What's its name?" Yep. Excited as could be. He seems giddy in fact. Slightly bouncing up and down. He's gotten a little TOO close for comfort. His armor is decorated in the traditional Illian style. He removes his helm, revealing an ectremely happy young man. "Oh' and I'm Argus by the way. Ut's nice to meet you!" He holds put his hand to Nowe. He holds it out. If you don't shake it he'll probably be offended and he IS armed. A lance on strapped to his back. His breastplate seems to be useable as a shield as well. It all seems rather sturdy. But YOU can fly. If this comes to blows somehow. His eyes are bright, and show at least a little cleverness.

[Newo]

"Why aren't you a ball of energy!" Being the awkward dolt she was, she shook his hand with both vigorously like a child would. In response to the sheer velocity of questions, Newo returned a spitfire in response. " Really great, no never, his name is Blum!" Newo got even closer than comfort, practically touching the man's chest with her own as she continued to rapid fire information, her hands on her waist while she beamed out the info. "My name is Newo, born in Jutes! I'm 23, medical trained by priests and currently live in Delfi!" She continued to press closer, all the while taking no caution to this new stranger. "Where are you from? What's your name? Is that armor hot? Did you name your lance? How many people did you get with it? Was there lots of blood?"

Not only was this questioning sudden and rather obnoxious, it kept going until the girl's face turned as red as her hair. She gasped aloud, pressing herself closer as she looked up excitedly for the knights answer. The entire time, Blum crept closer. Confused, but being interested as his rider had decided to make contact with the strange fellow
He looked the knight up and down and have a snort. Lumbering behind Newo he stood tall, ever watching as the young woman stood in front of the man without a care in the world. Quite the duo they were, as in situations like this Blum was quite early the brains. But Newo stood carefree up against the knight nontheless.

[Argus]

Argus stayed where he was. Not even noticibg the wyvern anymore. "My name is Argus! I'm from Carrhae! I'm 19! I hve not named my spear! Not many, I just got out of training! So no there was not a lot of blood! And I'm a Knight! And no it's not!" He then began to shoot more questions at her. "So what do you do for a living? What's your family like? Do you like it in Ilia? Where are you from? You're cute!" He says before stepping foward and falling flat on his face. "Ow. Can I get some help please? This armor's kinda heavy." He says, looking ridiculous. He moves his arms in a comical fashion, his face in the cold, hard, snowy ground. Falling on one of the wyvern's talons. "Wow. This thing's warm... And leathery!" He said, nuzzling the talon. "Anyway! You said you were trained by priests? And you're a wyvern rider? What'd they train you in? Being cute? Cause if they did, then they succeded tremendously!" He smiled a cheery smile at her, winking. He let out a luagh afterwards, rolling onto his back and looking at her, waiting for a reaction from her. Or the wyvern. Either would work. Of course if he angered the wyvern his head would probably be crushed into a fine paste. But he took that risk happily! After all, what's life without some flirting after all! He hums happily at the well constructed tease he had directed at the wyvern rider.

[Newo]

Blum's snout furrowed in a way that might suggest an eyebrow raise, and gave his signature snort and lowered his head back down. Nuzzling Newo against her neck in a loyal dog-like manor. Blum scraped the talon the knight fell on against the ground, not really as a threat to knight, but more of a sign of annoyance. Nonetheless, as long as he gave Newo no problems he had no reason to act, so he simply continued to watch his rider interact with the human.

Newo blushes slightly and laughed at the cute comment, and laughed even harder at Argus over. It was hard to find someone as playful as her, but she might have found her match. Grinning and extending a hand forward to help him up, she beamed a smile as warm as the rise of spring and began to speak. "I got trained in first aid silly, me and Blum transport goods and help get people stable to go to doctors. I can't be trained in being cute, just like I can't be trained in my hair being ginger or curly. Yeah, Illia is alright, but I prefer Delfi." She paused at the mention of family, but this wasn't the first time she had been asked the question in her years so she smiled it off lightly. "My mom passed, and my dad goes off on adventures a lot, but they're both great!" She continued to giggle as she looked down at the armored goofball. "Ya know if the armor is that heavy you could just ride a Wyvern yourself." She teased back, grinning all the way.

[Argus]

Argus took her hand. Standing up and smiling at her and responding to her many statements. "Delfi eh? Whyso? And as for riding a wyvern... No thank you. I can't stay atop a horse for my life as is. But maybe you could give me a ride sometime? Eh cutie?" When she said the stuff about her parents, he felt like a huge jerk for asking that and said "O-Oh... I'm sorry about that..."
He says, and steps foward and hugs her perhaps a little... Okay WAY too tightly... Standing between her and Blum. "I'M SO SORRY! PLEASE FORGIVE MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

The snow was falling gently, as the sun began to set over the mountainous horizon, twas a beautiful sight. Well worth a trip to Ilia to see. The snow, the quiet of the mountains, and the perfect golden-orange light of the sun setting over the jagged yet elegant horizon in the distance. The world seemed to slow down a little here. Sure everything was about "BE A MERCANARY OR WE'LL HAVE NO MONEY!" But... For those who had enough money, or were skilled enough craftsmen it was a good place to live in. The snow was hard enough to walk on. And food from other nations was cheap-ish. Everything seemed to be alright in this place. Sure Bern rebelled. Sure monsters were everywhere in Lycia. But for Ilia? That just meant work, and work meant food on the table, and fuel in the fire. And as the knight hugged her. He felt... Alright with the world.

[Newo]

She laughed at the sudden movement as Blum shrugged in annoyance. "Haha. How could I be mad at someone so precious?" Newo grinned, watching the snow fall as the childish knight practically squeezed the life out of her. Sure, she was being distracted from her job to find the herbs, but she figured it was kind of a hoax since the information wasn't very leading. But she at least made a friend. Or at least, a very memorable acquaintance. So in response to this, Newo did what she did best, through pain, through trial, through joy and everything else. She just smiled as the knight clung tightly. "You know, you ought to call me something other than cutie. Mix it up a bit, plus Blummy gets jealous." She laughed aloud, the light blue mount letting out another snort as he glanced at Argus with a childish contempt.

It was a shame she might have to leave, but this knight seemed so alone she figured she might as well use her 30 days of leave as they started tomorrow anyways, so why not? New friends were always welcome. "Hey Argus?" The Wyvern rider let go of the hug, still locked in his death grip she inquired in a soft time. "Where are you heading? Where's your journey too? You should let me tag along!" Blum immediately raised his head in reluctance to the though, but a quick rub on the snout made him oblige instantaneously. Newo would continue to remain the winged beast' s one weakness. Newo looked back to Argus, beaming brighter with her teeth, shining like the crescent moon as she asked "So will you let me go with you?"

[Argus]

"I'm going to Sacae, through Lycia. And sure you can!" He says happily letting go of her, and accidentally bumping into the wyvern, but not noticing. He smiles at the woman happily. "It's nice to know I can make a Wyvern jealous..." He says, nudging the big iguana.

He looks around for some good snow. Upon finding some he makes a ball of it and throws it at her. Proceeding to build a little fort of packed snow and proclaiming. "I AM KING OF SNOWIA! INVADE MY LANDS WILL YOU?! TASTE MY SNOWY WRATH! AHHHHH!" He yells before throwing snowball after snowball at both Blum and his rider. "FIIIIIGHTTTT MEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

He yells at them, ducking beneath the fort to avoid incoming snow ordinance, and awaits the oncoming wyvern-y storm of DEATH. He begins digging tunnels through the extremely hard (for snow) snow. Moving to where he believed was about 5-6 feet from his main fort and hiding there, FAR away from where he had last been seen. He'd already covered the tunnel entrance with Juuuust enough snow to hide it and him still be able to break out, he didn't want to suffocate after all. He began to make more ammunition and expand his bunker.

The snow was white and opaque. The tunnels were winding and wide enough for a person in armor but bot a wyvern. The place seemed... Regal in it's design. Despite being the underground area of a freaking SNOW FORT. It IS impressive though. And on the way you see what looks like a throne room made of snow with the man's helmet atop it.

[Newo]

The large Wyvern blinked in bewilderment at the knight's sudden action. Newo couldn't contain herself as she started to burst into absolute laughter. "How absolutely silly" she thought to herself. Who would have guessed that she'd be spending quite some time traveling with this young man, but she could tell she would be in for quite the ride. Immediately, Blum swept his tail through the base of the snow fort, causing it to collapse around the knight as it fell apart, breaking down into the equivalent of hundreds of snowballs coming down towards him at once. The Wyvern grinned, looking forward to the possibility of making the knight into his next subject of never ending harassment in competition for his rider's attention. Newo smiled all the while, laying down in the snow by Blum's talon.

Still filled with jubilous laughter, her arms and legs went up and down, back and forth in order to make a snow angel. It was childish, but it was great to have some of her stress relieved by this encounter. She sat up, her nose turning into a tulip due to the cold. Her laughter turned to a wide smile as she looked down at the pile of snow that was a snow fort. "You'll have to excuse him, he never likes to play fair!" As if on cue, the Wyvern let out a triumphant snort, as if to float over Argus's current predicament as the scales mount piles more snow into the knight. Need only laughed again, realizing she was in for a long month.

[Argus]

((Ya know what I'm just gonna do a SUPER quick finisher for this thread so we can move on.))

The Knight stood up and motioned for her to follow before walking towards Lycia, his armor's clanking noises slower than normal what with the snow on it and all, he kept a mear-constant eye on the wyvern as he went, smiling all the way.