[h2]Dawn and Elizabeth[/h2]
Dawn and Elizabeth disembarked the train. It was still early in the morning but coming from a trading village and being the children of a wood cutter they were used to being up at first light. Dawn had sent a letter on ahead to a newly formed guild called the "Golden Dragoon" informing there master of his situation and telling her he'd arrive that morning.

Dawn was a little nervous. Not just about joining a wizard's guild or living in a new place. He was nervous about his sister. Every since there father died Elizabeth had been erratic, calm and happy one minute and angry and violent the next. Her moods were unpredictable and when she wasn't calm her ice magic tended to explode out of her in unpredictable ways.

She froze in front of the station taking in the town they'd just set foot in. Dawn reached out and drew a number of swirls and dashes over her exposed arm as he said "Come on Beth. We'll have time for sight seeing later. We have to see the guild master first." Elizabeth glanced at him quizzically.

She was wearing a high cut red dress embroidered with gold that came down to just below her knee. She had on black combat boots and her hair was blowing away from her face. She reached out for Dawn's arm with a smile and started to draw the same sort of swirls and dashes over his arm. They spelled out a language that very few people recognized and fewer understood. [i]The clouds are in the sky but the waters run away.[/i]

It was almost always this way with his sister, she had a very unique perspective on the world. So unique that he had trouble understanding her much of the time. She often spoke in broken phrases or riddles. Sometimes Dawn could puzzle out what she meant but Elizabeth had a habit of never saying it plainly. Dawn had always attributed this to the same trauma that had caused Elizabeth to stop speaking.

"We should get inside before the water decides to come back." He led his sister up the streets. At the first shop he found Dawn asked for directions to the Golden Dragoon. An elderly gentleman pointed him the way in very short time the twins arrived at the monstrous dragon head that was the guild hall.

Dawn nervously walked up to the door with the unnerving feeling that he was being swallowed. He opened it slowly and was preparing to enter when Elizabeth dashed in front of him. The moment the door was open wide enough for her to fit Elizabeth flew into the guild. Dawn entered seconds later and watched Elizabeth sashay her way through the crowd as though this was one big country dance. 

The guild hall was chaotic, people eating, preparing for missions. As was to be expected of a wizards guild. Dawn followed his sister with his eyes being unable to push through the crowd at the same rate she was moving. When he finally reached her Elizabeth standing next to a girl pinned to one of the walls with what smelled like peanut butter. Alright, not the strangest thing Dawn had ever seen but certainly in the top ten.

With a hand outstretched Elizabeth reached to the touch the substance. Dawn was just about to stop her thinking she was going to ruin her only good dress when instead of the goo adhering to her skin frost spread out from the tips of her fingers coating the peanut butter entirely in ice and freezing it solid.

Seconds later the ice shattered completely with an almighty sound of breaking glass raining down shards of frost over the floor along with the girl who'd been trapped there. Dawn glanced around at everyone in the hall. "Hi," he looked to who he thought was the guild master, as she was the one behind the bar and said. "I sent a letter on ahead. I'm looking for membership." As he said this he reached out a hand and pulled Elizabeth closer to himself so that she wouldn't wander off.