Vance and Eve turned their attention to the town crier when he emerged from the gates to make the announcement, listening to the man as he spoke. When he got to the “Pledge thyself to Maplestead in this task” part, it gave Vance a bad feeling. He didn’t like swearing his allegiance to anyone, or any kingdom, he was only in it for the money, also for the fact that he could help people and perhaps clear his conscience of his own wrongdoings, as if there were some imaginary scorekeeper, and he was in the red, but he was mostly doing this for the money.
Vance approached the line of adventurers, patiently waiting his turn. Eve was on his shoulder, gesturing by moving her arms in a ‘pushing’ motion, thinking that it would make the line move faster somehow.
“Patience is a virtue” he whispered to her.
“Yours maybe!” she snapped back at him, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
The line was steadily moving, but not fast enough for Eve’s liking.
“Can we cut in line, or something? C’mon, these people don’t stand a chance against what’s out there! Team Eve, and Vance all the way!” she said with a little cheer, raising her small fist into the air victoriously. She also made it a point, when announcing the team name, to put her name first.
Vance sighed. There was nothing that he could do to quiet her, and his conscience wouldn’t let him send her away. Like it, or not, he was stuck with her.
When it was finally Vance’s turn to sign up, he grabbed the pen and started filling out the form. Eve fluttered right above the paper, using this as a chance to get to know her new friend better.
“Name” she said, even though it was plainly written on the form.
“What is your last name anyway?” she asked before he started writing.
“Meridian” he said plainly.
“Oh.. nice name” she said in wonder, trying to figure out it’s origin.
“Home town?” she said, this would obviously be a theme to this part of their day.
“Masa” he said before writing it down.
“Class?.. psst, write down ‘badass demon killer’" she whispered to him, then tried to take the pen from his hand to write it in herself.
“Bad a~…Templar” is what Vance wrote down, after taking control of the pen away from her and making corrections.
“Weapon… Glowing demon obliterating sword of awesome!” she said with excitement.
“Not only that” he said to her in a teaching tone. “I am adept at using shields, too. Also, white magic, as you saw” he said.
“Oh yeah! You killed those demons good with that!” she said, mimicking the motions of him using his sword to banish the demons earlier, she even added some sound effects. “Pssshhhaw BOOM!”
The sound effects, Vance found, were quite embarrassing.
After he was done filling out the form, he stood aside, waiting for the groups to be announced, but not before Eve took the pen that he was using, and scribbled her name onto the form, covering half of his name with hers.
Vance approached the line of adventurers, patiently waiting his turn. Eve was on his shoulder, gesturing by moving her arms in a ‘pushing’ motion, thinking that it would make the line move faster somehow.
“Patience is a virtue” he whispered to her.
“Yours maybe!” she snapped back at him, crossing her arms in front of her chest.
The line was steadily moving, but not fast enough for Eve’s liking.
“Can we cut in line, or something? C’mon, these people don’t stand a chance against what’s out there! Team Eve, and Vance all the way!” she said with a little cheer, raising her small fist into the air victoriously. She also made it a point, when announcing the team name, to put her name first.
Vance sighed. There was nothing that he could do to quiet her, and his conscience wouldn’t let him send her away. Like it, or not, he was stuck with her.
When it was finally Vance’s turn to sign up, he grabbed the pen and started filling out the form. Eve fluttered right above the paper, using this as a chance to get to know her new friend better.
“Name” she said, even though it was plainly written on the form.
“What is your last name anyway?” she asked before he started writing.
“Meridian” he said plainly.
“Oh.. nice name” she said in wonder, trying to figure out it’s origin.
“Home town?” she said, this would obviously be a theme to this part of their day.
“Masa” he said before writing it down.
“Class?.. psst, write down ‘badass demon killer’" she whispered to him, then tried to take the pen from his hand to write it in herself.
“Bad a~…Templar” is what Vance wrote down, after taking control of the pen away from her and making corrections.
“Weapon… Glowing demon obliterating sword of awesome!” she said with excitement.
“Not only that” he said to her in a teaching tone. “I am adept at using shields, too. Also, white magic, as you saw” he said.
“Oh yeah! You killed those demons good with that!” she said, mimicking the motions of him using his sword to banish the demons earlier, she even added some sound effects. “Pssshhhaw BOOM!”
The sound effects, Vance found, were quite embarrassing.
After he was done filling out the form, he stood aside, waiting for the groups to be announced, but not before Eve took the pen that he was using, and scribbled her name onto the form, covering half of his name with hers.
