Eldalia watched Renan before dropping her supplies in the trough before jumping into the pond. Before swimming to shore she looked up at Infinity, "Are you coming?"

Infinity shook her head, "I'm going to stay out here and keep watching, I've already gotten wet once today, I'd rather not get wet again. Us cats can only take so much water." She thought to Eldalia.

Eldalia laughed softly, "Alright, suit yourself." She normally slept curled up with her guardian but if she felt more comfortable out there she wasn't going to push it.

She swam to shore and grabbed her stuff before sitting down and wringing the water out of her clothes and hair. Not wanting the heavy weigt of her wet hair on her neck she quickly threw it into a bun and leaned back against one of the walls. She was so tired.

Renan noticed that the bear guardian and the panther were staying outside of the grotto. No matter. He dismissed the crow with the thought, Go. Be with them. Make sure that they don't get into trouble. With this the black bird flew back out of the grotto and landed on the panther's back, taunting it. It would soon fly onto the bear and do the same.

Meanwhile Renan, noticing that the girl seemed wet and cold, lit a fire the cave's fireplace, admiring the intricately carved mantelpiece with the insignia of a bear in the centre. He turned, and headed for a pile of leather scraps that lay near a workbench, picking up a load and placing some on each of four stone beds as a makeshift mattress and blanket. After doing this, he walked to the stone shore of the grotto and whistled up out of the trapdoor, beckoning to the large boy and fragile girl. Following this he approached the brown hairs girl and asked her name.

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Steve had grown tired of pestering the other guardians, and began to swoop through the forest. As he began to fly in higher, wider circles, he noted two things. To the far northeast, there was a governmental outpost designed to function as a makeshift barracks. Upon coming back to earth to inform Renan of this, he once again encountered the boy with the eagle, pausing for a moment to look at the eagle before flying back to the grotto's entrance.

After Math'Ura asurred him it was alright, Darrow fallowed the others. Taking off his armor and other supplies, he through it into one of the other chutes. Jumping into the pool, Darrow had a little trouble swimming up and burst through the surface with a large gulps of air. Trudging up to the land, Darrow shook his head like a dog and dried most of it in the process.

Walking up to his supplies, Darrow did a quick look around and seeing nobody watching, hurriedly stripped out of his wet clothes and switched into what the villagers called "Shorts", the only remaining thing dry. Laying the wet cloths out flat to dry, Darrow took his armor, weapons, and a cloth towards the water to begin washing it from the days battle while chewing on a gaudium root.

She looked up at him from her place on the floor, "I'm Eldalia and my guardian is Infinity. And your name is?" She stood up and moved closer to the fire, hoping it would dry her clothes fast. She had spare clothes but she was curretly wearing the only clothes she had that were somewhat clean. She hadn't exactly had time to do any washin like she had planned.

With a soft sigh she turned so her back was to the fire and closed her eyes, "While you're out there can you find me some herbs, I need to replenish what my supplies as soon as I get a chance," she thought to Inifinity.

The General face was full of rage and he said "I will not stand for treason within our ranks."
Alex said "treason?, sir I wish to help the King gain his goal by doing this."
The General said "Guards put him in a cell, he is to be sent to Agoria in the morning to be exacuted."
Alex said "WHAT?!" The guards grabbed Alex and began to drag him out as other soldier grabbed Nero and put a muzzle on him and dragged him to the jail cell.

In the jail cell Alex was sitting on the bed. "what the hell just happened?" Nero replied "It seems the General doesn't want you near the Timber wolves, but why he is that way I do not know."

Alex said "I've been loyal to the king since I was young, so why did he see fear in his eyes when I said I wanted to join the Timber wolves."
Just then the door to dungeon opened and young timber wolf soldier with his wolf guardian were walking in dragging and a man. The timber wolf soldier threw the man in the jail cell next to Alex and said "next time you want to steal don't do it on our watch." The timber wolf soldier who is named Paul was about to leave when he noticed Alex looking at him, the soldier seemed to stare at Alex almost as if he recognized him. The Paul quickly left the dugeon.
Alex and Nero looked at each other and Alex said "that was weird"
Alex then layed down on the bed in the cell and tried to get some sleep, but the image of Paul looking at him as if he recognized him was haunting his mind.

With the two already in the cave engaged in conversation, Renan took to walking over to a section of the cave marked with tallies and mad scribbles carved into the stone wall. He looked into the leather pouches hanging from the wall before him. Looking behind himself again to see the tall man and the girl, Renan replenished his bolts before pausing for a moment and taking a special bolt marked with a unique shaft and arrowhead out and carefully removing the tip. After this, he reached into another one of the skins before him labeled, "Insomnia," and drew a small quantity of liquid from it. Just smelling the fluid made him a bit drowsy. He then poured some of this fluid into the shaft of the arrow and reattached the arrowhead after making sure that the trigger mechanism (a steel bead at the tail end of the arrow which surges forward when the arrow hits because of inertia) was functional. He then placed the bolt into his pouch with the rest and sealed the skin. Taking a quick headcount, Renan realized that something was amiss.

He unhooked a rope from the cave wall and climbed back out of the grotto, reaching the top where all of the guardians lay, along with the blonde haired girl with the bandages. He made a welcoming gesture and pointed to the trap door whilst looking concernedly at the girl, awaiting a response.

Hearing the girl from before talking, Darrow had to pause a moment to collect what she had said for he wasn't paying attention at the moment. After a moment Darrow looked back to her and said "My...name...Darrow." with his usual difficulty. Looking back to his armor and seeing it was clean, Darrow quickly dunked his head in the water and scrubbed, getting the caked in dirt and blood out. After he was done, he set aside his armor, grabbed another set of dried meat and gaudium root.

Walking towards the fire pit, Darrow offered the spare meat and gaudium root towards the stranger turned ally and tried to say her name with no success. Instead Darrow said "Can't...say...name, can...call...Cele'un" with a little meekness and an embarrassed blush creeping along the back of his neck.

With everyone now inside the grotto, Renan jumped in again, this time grabbing the trapdoor as he fell, causing it to close behind him. After getting out of the water yet again, he removed all of his clothes excepting his undergarments and changed into a spare set of clothing, uncaring of what those around him may think. Enjoying his new, dry clothes, Renan approached one of the stone slabs shaped as if it were a bed and laid down, eyes drooping. The last thing that he saw was the shy girl being alone, and the others conversing with one another. Conversation, bah. It wasn't that great anyway. Words are overrated. With a bitter look upon his face, this was the last though that Renan had before stuffing a pile of hay underneath his head and falling into sleep.

Alex was fast asleep when suddenly the door to his jail cell was opened and he sat quick to see Paul standing in the doorway with a torch. Paul said "come with me" Alex and nero looked at each other in confusion and both got up and followed Paul as he lead them down the dark halls of the castle. Alex was nervous, "are the Timber wolves going to exacute me?" He thought to himself.
They then entered a large room where the other 4 Timberwolves were waiting.
The head Timberwolf pulled out his sword and said "we are going to test you to see if you are worthy to become a Timberwolf."
Alex was handed his two handed sword and the two soldiers began to square off.
Alex's heart was in his throat, he had to defeat the leader of the timberwolves to get in, which is nearly impossible since the leader has never lost a fight. Alex then heard Nero in his head say "don't let fear grip you, focus on the match and let your blade do the convincing." Alex then smirked and muttered "so be it" Alex and the leader then charged at each other and began to strike at each other with amazing speed.