Raiya was too flustered and flabbergasted to give any sort of response. The anger she felt burning inside her was from many reasons. First and foremost of those reasons for her anger and coincidentally her drunkenness, was her brother Felix abruptly showing up in her life after four years of silence.
She could remember those four years ago, when she went on investigating something that she was forbidden to continue investigating, all in an effort to clear Felix's name in her mind. And yet, after all the work she did, Felix sided with those who most certainly committed heinous acts in secret. What was it that Felix had said to her? "We have no reason to distrust the Arcanocracy, they have given us everything. And... And well, to question the order of things is to reject our teachings, and that's the way of the apostate.
The words stung even now. Raiya couldn't blame Felix for his then blind acceptance of the Arcanocracy. The Church was all they knew; it wasn't just a way of life it was their family. But to not even attempt to contact her after she left? That was almost unforgivable.
The other reason for her frustration was that a random stranger had bested her right hand woman and essentially stolen her from her home and business. Plus to make matters worse the stranger who did all this was broken out of a jail cell he should have been rotting in for the rest of his life by her brother whom she considered dead but if to be believed was not ordered to capture her but did so on his own and- ARGH! The factors for her frustration were so large in number and so complex in connection with each other that she had difficulty picking one thing to be angry about.
So, in a sigh of frustration, she placed her knife back in her coat, and stormed off in the direction of the stairs that lead to the guest rooms. Finding the left room at the end of the hallway, she walked in and slammed the door as hard as she could without breaking the hinges.
The room in question was quite large with many luxuries. The bed was a queen-size, with black Egyptian cotton comforters and sheets, and real goose down pillows. The room had a wall mounted flat screen television on the wall at the foot of the bed, and in the north section of the room was a desk with a shelf above it; various books lining the shelf. As she looked to her left before the bed was an opening to a full bathroom. The full connected bathroom, plus the modernity of all of the furniture gave her the familiar feeling of a hotel room.
Feeling exceedingly tired from the effects of the alcohol, she began to undress. She pealed off her leather jacket and black hoodie, and kicked off her combat boots. She also took off the outer fishnet shirt and tank top, and dropped her jeans, leaving her in her black laced bra and panties. She then crawled under the tightly made bed's covers, and fell asleep, letting the frustrations of the day slip away with the blissful reprieve that sleep brought.
Felix watched as Raiya stormed off, and flinched at the loudness of the door slamming.
"Well. On one hand I want to scold you for going off on your own. On the other I want to thank you for managing the impossible and getting my sister to join us. I still don't know if that latter part is a good thing, but her name is on the list so good or not she needs to be with us. So... Overall good job, Nemo. I'm not sure how you did it, but making inferences, I would say you should sleep with one eye open when she's around." Felix mused.
Felix noticed the pale blue man faint. Felix didn't think about accounting for temperature adjustments, but he noticed Artos activated a temperature spell to keep himself safe. Felix walked over to the lounge area and began to address everyone.
First he pulled out the parchment list, and then he began talking.
"I have called you all here because all of your names have been written on this list. I haven't told you all this, but I wrote this list while I was sleeping, in a vision state. The vision I was having was one of warning, and one of pleading. I was told to bring you all together so that you could save the world from those who seek to gather up the dangerous artifacts known as the Paragons." Felix looked down at the list, "Now that we're all here I'd like to-" Felix stopped himself as he noticed a name that he hadn't noticed there before. It was possible he had noticed it, but in his haste he skipped it by accident, the third name down. It read, "Jessie Link - Summoner Manner (Wakana, New Zealand)"
Felix rubbed the back of his head with his empty left hand in embarrassment.
"I- um... I seem to have accidentally skipped one of the list names... I'll be back, but... we'll continue this discussion tomorrow morning. You can all chat amongst yourselves. But, it's-" Felix looked at his mana-dial which read in blue digital numbers 23:46 (11:46 standard), "almost midnight. So you should all eventually find yourselves a room and get some sleep."
With that, created another rift, and gave a wave before disappearing through the portal.