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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Myth and Legend" data-source="post: 5357277" data-attributes="member: 82679">Lora raised an eyebrow - she would have looked around to find Arthur but decided against it. The girl hoped her brother didn't go swinging his sword at Dellex's whim. Although he couldn't really say no without risking being tried for treason. And Dellex was quite content to be his own judge, so long as he saw fault in someone for breaking the law."You showed such fascination with myself from the start, I almost expected you to remember the first time we met. - Lora smirked as she undid her hair, finding the purple rose clasp with surprise. The Wizardress had forgotten about that. - I came to Harkon as the leader of a group of irregulars from the main army supposedly under Lord Bairan's command. We were sent along Spider's Path and now i think Dellex might have wanted us to die either by that Ettercap or by the horsemen he sent after us. Fortunately once we came out the other side they had fallen behind. Out of that group of men, one retreated or... worse. The other I think joined your own men at arms, or is back to the camp now. A third one disappeared after the battle - the Reygirian Paladin. And the last two took to their own way immediately before i came to your aid now. I think Jareth might go and do something stupid, and Trinham mentioned something about some boat."The girl paused as she asked one of the stable boys to bring her a rag and some oil. He did, possibly because Vance was silently looming behind the girl's shoulder. Lora continued, as she started cleaning her weapon methodically."In any event, I'm no longer the leader of anything. And I don't owe any particular allegiance to the irregulars. And definitely not to... the main army. - she omitted Dellex's name to avoid arousing any talk of treason. Lora suspected that was the Wizard's most favorite thing. Treason, and offing people's heads for it. - So here I am. I have actually achieved the task I set out for in the beginning. There are a few things i need to figure out, but I will be leaving you in a few days. In the mean time lord Valorn I would gladly accept your hospitality. I'd rather not sleep in the dirt back at the camp, even if Fallon's cooking is better than my mother's. And that's saying something, as she's the best cook in my town."Lora paused and fixated her stare on the ground between her feet. She was not that talkative - or at least hadn't been, for some years. And she wasn't lashing out at anyone, at lest not right now. The girl was tired, covered in dried blood, sweat and muck, hungry, thirsty, but not angry. Not really. Not in that way that had a lump of lead stuck in her stomach for so long. She felt dirty on the outside but for a first time in so long, Lora did not feel soiled as a woman and a human being. That soldier back then had taken a lot from her. It was time she took some of it back.The Wizard remembered her parents - they must have been worried sick by now, with Arthur leaving so abruptly and their daughter disappearing. She also thought of Mirella. The Witch was wise and incredibly calm. When first she approached Lora and her family, asking the girl to become her apprentice, that was the one thing she noticed about her future mentor - her incredible serenity of her character and the mellow sound of her soothing voice. "Mirella has probably known what I was doing this whole time. She has decided it was time i discovered the world for myself. She has used that mirror in her room to see where i was, and probably told my parents."Suddenly, Lora missed her lessons with the wise Witch. "Vance do you think it appropriate if i were to ask Skazul for a lesson in magic? And perhaps, to borrow a tome or two from his vast library?"</blockquote>

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