Amadeus had gone to a clearing nearby to test out his new sword and was now walking back to the encampment, [i]'I've heard of a technique where people use lightning magic to super charge their muscles, making them stronger and faster. I wonder if I can use Eclairs natural lightning magic to do the same'[/i] he began wondering as he almost reached the encampment. 

It had been a whole month since the last mission the Babette's had been sent on as a group, and he was wondering why they hadn't been sent on another. "I should ask Gregoria when the Babette's are going on another mission, or if I can at least go on a mission with the Jaegers." He said aloud smiling, "After all, I can always [b]learn[/b] from them." He said as him eyes began to flow behind his bangs. As they glowed he began to see things naked to the human eye, he saw strange lights in the air that seemed to move in a pattern of sorts, the smallest movement of an spider spinning its web on a tree 15 meters away, the smallest sign of a snake in the grass near him that was about to lunge out at an unsuspecting mouse. 

[i]'Ethos's eyes, named after the ancient god of the moon, silver eyes that can let me see anything and everything, including the flow of magic and even the slightest muscle movement.'[/i] he thought with a bit of pride. These eyes where the whole reason he was able to become a master rank so fast. When watching his teachers, he saw everything to how they used a weapon to how they controlled the flow of magic, and he practiced and copied all of those techniques he had seen over the years to get to where he is now. And had still done it with everyone he met (including teammates) in order to integrate their fighting techniques into his own. 

"I kinda feel like I'm just a copycat." he said with a sigh, “Maybe I should create my own fighting style, but that sounds to difficult.” as he finally reached the camp, seeing a crowd forming near where he had talked to Ashaad earlier

Nilara had been standing behind tent as she watched the brawl. With her head peeking around the corner she happened to notice a certain Sandsea wanderer sitting by the fire. "Shit", she thought as she pulled herself away from the fire's light hoping to have not been seen. "Perhaps I should go get Leech", Nilara began to turn away from the camp.

Amadeus saw the girl beginning to leave and approached her, "excuse me miss, do you know what's going on?"

Just as she was bout to leave Nilara bumped into someone who she had assumed to be one of the guards looking for her. Not hearing what the man had said she grabbed him by the shirt and put a hand over his mouth to stop him from calling the other guards. "I just want to get my sword. Now if you could do me a favor and shut up I'll go get it and head back to my tent, alright?"

Amadeus was dumbfounded by the older women's statement, "U-ummmm, y-yes mam!" he said unsure what was going on.

"Good", she said as she let go of his shirt. "Last thing I wanted was to summon a demon here of all places"

"A demon?!" He said suprised. "You can summon a demon?!" He asked in more of a surprise then in fear.

"First, lower your voice. I'm not trying to get the Sandman's attention. Second, of course I can don't you know who I am? No you don't otherwise you wouldn't be surprised that i could summon demons", Nilara took moment to figure out the situation. "You don't look like one of the guards, you a stable boy or somethin'?" 

Amadeus sweat dropped at this [i]'I know I look normal but to be mistaken for a stable boy'[/i] he thought with a sigh, "Umm I'm not one of the guards, I'm one of the 42" he said scratching his cheek then looking over their shoulders to see a pair of guards searching around for something. "Well there are guards coming our way, I don't know what the situation is but I suggest you hide real quick." He said as he tried to form a sort of wall between the guards and Nilara.

"42...that number s'posed to mean something to me-shit", Nilara hushed up once she heard Amadeus mention guards. She hid behind the wall Amadeus erected until the guards had moved on, "Thanks, what's this about 42?".

Amadeus lifted an eyebrow, "Aren't you one of the 42 warriors that the three kingdoms sent. I mean, you don't seem to be a guard, cook, or stable hand." He said as he looked around just in case there was another guard around.

"Aye, I ain't no stablehand. I don't know if I'm one of those 42 though, I'm more of a special case. The higher ups here don't seem to trust me, and for good reason...you've never heard of me have ya?".

"They don't trust you?" He asked more to himself then her "There are people here who have made deals with demons, hell, there's a guy here who I think IS one" he said referring to the brief glance he saw of his teammate Harley. "But no, I don't think I've heard of you" He said as he took out and opened a small notebook labeled 42 and began flipping through the pages trying to find an entry of her to no avail.

"Really?! You never heard of me? Nilara Varentia? 'The Necromancer Queen of The Sandsea? Leader of The Cursed Ones bandit clan? Ring a bell?", Nilara felt a little offended that her reputation wasn't international but she felt even dumber for telling whoever this kid was that she was notorious bandit. 

Amadeus felt a rush of déjà vu as he remembered that his first meeting with Hazel was exactly the same and how just like before he HAD actually heard of before. "Oh yeah! I've heard about you before" then a realization hit him, there was a known and notorious criminal hiding from the guards In front of him. He took a deep breath to relax, remembering that a lot of people here where also criminals in a way, "Well why are you trying to hide from the guards?" He asked as he tried to get a feel of the situation.

Nilara paused for a moment as looked over Amadeus. If he knew about her and didn't alert the guards perhaps he could be trusted. "Well as you can imagine with my colorful past most ain't likely to trust me. Specially what with me bein' a necromancer. Bastards got me locked up in my tent without so much as giving me my effects. I figured if they won't gimme my things I'd best get them myself. I was on my way to get my sword when I noticed that little brawl back there and if you don't mind I should prob'ly be gettin' my sword".

Before she could leave Amadeus stopped her, "Maybe I can help you, there's no alert so I'm guessing they haven't realized that you have didsappeared yet right? I can help you get your stuff back and then you can sneak back before anyone even notices you disappeared" he said with a small grin. 

"...you're alright, uh what's your name again?", Nilara asked as she glanced around for guards.

"Amadeus Cross, I'm not as famous or powerful as the other guys here but I can pull my own."

"Well then, Amadeus Cross, let's be off then", Nilara began to leave the area of the fight but stopped before realizing something, "...which way's the smithy?".

Amadeus thought for a bit, "I think you are looking for Alice, if it's her then your weapons in trusted hands, I'll lead you towards her" he said as look around a corner to make sure there where no guards before walking. "She's not far from here." He said leading the way to Alice's workshop, I think she should be out of her tent right now because it's around lunchtime, when we get there just get in and out asap." He instructed as continued to walk through the encampment.

"Won't be long. Ya can't not notice Leech", Nilara assured as they snuck through the coalition amp. It didn't take long before she and Amadeus arrived at Alice's tent. Nilara opened the tent flap just enough to peek inside. Right away she saw Leech sitting there on top of a table. The Necromancer quietly but quickly snuck into the tent and grabbed Leech from off the table and as quickly as she entered the tent she was gone. "Alright, got 'em. Time to get back to the tent beforim missed", she said jokingly as she tried to remember her tent's location. "Ah yes, that way"

As they walked Amadeus looked over to his partner in crime, "Can I ask you somethings?"

"Rather you didn't but fine go ahead, I owe ya that much"

"Well when we met you said something about not wanting to get the 'sandmans' attention, do you and Ashaad have something against each other or something?" He asked as he saw a guard up ahead and yanked Nilara into a corner, patiently waiting until the guard walked past them. 

Nilara watched as the guard left the area before speaking again, "That's twice you've saved my ass, I'm usually more alert than this." she tried to change the subject as it wasn't a pleasant topic of discussion and to reveal too much now could have things end up very badly for her and numerous others. 

Amadeus nodded at the agreement with a smile, forgetting the original topic, "Well we all have an off day." He said as they continued walking to her tent. They arrived near the tent to see two guards in front of it and another talking to the two. "Shit I think that a head guard, He's probably here to check on you!" He said with worry, then an idea came to him, he turned to the other warrior, "I'm going to distract them, hurry and get back inside ASAP." He said, waiting for confirmation.

Nilara heard Amadeus' plan and quickly ran to the side of the tent making sure she couldn't be seen by the guards. "I made an entrance at the back of the tent, once I see you distracting them I'll go in the back". 

Amadeus nodded and began to walked up to the three guards, "Soldiers, what are you three doing outside this tent? Is an important official here?" He asked trying to sound interested.

The head guard turned just as he was about to enter the tent. "No one important in there, sir. Just a filthy bandit in there. We've orders to have under constant watch due to her 'colorful' past. Colorful my arse, that woman's got enough blood on her hands to paint the sandsea crimson!", it was clear the guard had some strong feelings against Nilara. Either out of distrust for criminals or something more. Either way it was unknowable his reasons for hating The Necromancer. 

[i]'Don't we all have blood on our hands though?'[/i] he thought as he heard the guard's rant. "Well may I go in for a second," he said as he looked to the head guard, "I can check on her in your stead, i'm sure you have better things to do" he said as he didn't want the head guard to see Nilara with her sword back in hand.

The guard's response took a while but eventually he shrugged his shoulders as he walked away saying, "Very well, these two will be outside should you need them."

He nodded at this and watched the head guard walk away. Amadeus walked into the tent.

As soon as the head guard had left Nilara crawled into her tent from the back and placed the stake back in the ground. Once inside she slipped Leech under the chest in her tent. [i]"Inside the chest's to obvious, don't want them to find it durin' a search"[/i]. Once Leech was safely hidden away Nilara turned to Amadeus who had entered the tent shortly after her. "My thanks, Amadeus...hmm that's too long of a name. Your last name is better. As I said before, you have my thanks, Cross. Maybe when I sneak out again we can share a drink."

Amadeus chuckled at this, "My friends call me Ama, if that helps. And yeah, maybe next time we can have a drink." he said before he slightly cringed as he remembered the drink he had with the other desert dweller. "Well I guess its my time to go, I hope that I can get sent on a mission with you, you seem like a pretty cool person." he said with a smirk

"I am, unfortunately most only see the bandit and not the dashing rogue. Anyways you'd best be off before those two come in for ya. Till next time, Cross. I'll be lookin' forward to that mission", Nilara plopped down onto her bedroll and lazily waved goodbye with her face in the pillow.

Amadeus walked out of the tent and nodded to the two guards before walking away.