Why is Elowen here? Why is he together with Alistair?
lina did her best to appear calm, but she could feel her hands trembling. Alistair noticed her distress imdiately, inserting himself between lina and the elf. "How have you been?"
"I-I'm alright… I…" She couldn't concentrate, her eyes drawn to Elowen.
Does he rember what happened? He seems to recognize . Or at least I seem familiar to him. Does he have a skill similar to gone?
After a mont of contemplation, lina decided that it was best to keep herself busy and think matters through slowly. She headed outside. The garden was growing nicely. Her little seeds had grown into small seedlings while the strawberries she had planted started to grow their first buds. Bees were eagerly flying around and searching for freshly opened flower buds.
The sight cald her, as did the presence of Knight. He was roaming around the garden, careful not to trample the seedlings. lina had left him a little corner where he could graze and eat all the weeds and grass he wanted.
"Hello, Knight," she greeted the nightmare, who replied with a snort. Sienna scuttled up on his back and basked in the warm sunlight. Initially, Knight didn't take kindly to Sienna doing this and tried to shake her off. But eventually, the two of them ford a tentative friendship.
lina went to the back of the yard, near Knight's grazing spot, doing her best not to let her dark thoughts take hold. She observed the spot she had chosen for Sienna's enclosure. Currently, it was nothing more than a barren piece of land. She had cleared away all the weeds and shrubs, but otherwise, there wasn't much progress.
"I'll definitely need so rocks. Sienna loves lying on those during the day. But I'd need really large rocks for Sienna's big form," she muttered, walking around the area and pulling out a rogue weed or two. It should be large enough for lina to build Sienna a shelter of sorts, but how would she go about doing that?
Her eyes landed on a large pile of rocks sitting in the very corner of the garden. The pile had grown larger over ti as lina dug out more rocks from the soil. She looked over the spot where she was standing, and then an idea struck her.
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lina rushed to the shed, retrieved a shovel, and began digging the foundation of Sienna's enclosure. It was a large area, and it would take a lot of digging to realize the idea that she had in mind. But with any luck, the wyrm would have a nice place to rest in her large form.
She dug and dug, her hands quickly getting exhausted. But the monotone motion helped her calm and organize her thoughts. lina knew she wasn't ready to face Elowen head-on just yet, but perhaps she could reveal the truth to him slowly.
lina was so into her task that she didn't even notice when Alistair, with Elowen following closely behind him, ca into the backyard. Only when Knight let out a dissatisfied snort did she notice both n. She had no clue how to react.
"Hello?"
"Hello. I hope I'm not interrupting anything important," Alistair asked sheepishly.
"Oh, no… I was just digging."
"Is that an ember wyrm? And a nightmare?" Elowen asked, looking at both beasts.
"Nightmare?" Alistair questioned.
lina groaned inwardly. She had no clue how to deal with one of them, but dealing with both of them at once… There couldn't be a worse situation. How could she even reply to this?
"Sienna is an ember wyrm—yes!" She said, trying her best to appear calm. Elowen narrowed his eyes.
"How did a human manage to ta one?"
Human? Elowen wouldn't refer to as just a human if he rembered . He always called "mage". I doubt he'd be surprised about taming an ember wyrm. So does he not rember after all?
The silver elf was studying her cautiously. He definitely rembered sothing, but his mories were probably fragnted just like Alistair's. There was a chance for lina to appeal to him and make him believe that she'd never try to break the world apart again. If she could do that before he rembered what she had done, then there would be a better chance of him listening to her.
"With a tart," lina said calmly. She motioned for Sienna to co over. The wyrm reluctantly left the warm spot on Knight's back and hurried into lina's palm she had lowered to the ground.
"Fascinating! She listens to your commands as well. She must be your familiar, aning that you're a System user."
lina froze. Alistair frowned. It took Elowen just a few minutes to figure out her secret. If he weren't an elf, she might have panicked. But lina knew that elves didn't care much for the Church.
"I won't deny it, but please, do not refer to as a System user in public. I do not wish to be involved with the Church."
"Really?" Elowen seed pleased by that fact. "Odd choice, but one I can certainly agree with."
"In either case, this is not the reason for our visit. There's sothing I'd like to discuss with you, lina," Alistair said, glaring at the elf.
"Of course, but…" She paused, looking at Elowen. She wanted to ask why he had co together with Alistair.
"Why am I here? The Elders deed it necessary for to co to Sunglow, and since we did a favor for Lord Sinclair, he beca my guide," Elowen replied, sensing her question.
Alistair didn't look pleased by that fact in the slightest.
Sohow, out of all elves, Elowen ended up as Alistair's guide. What are the chances of that happening? It's as if past events are trying to repeat themselves...
"Yes, although I do not understand why you have to follow everywhere?" Alistair grumbled.
"Is it not fair that you guide just like I have guided you?" Elowen asked.
"Yes, it is fair. However, there is no need to follow everywhere. Besides, I wish to speak with lina privately."
"I understand your eagerness, however, I will be in Sunglow only for a short while. I would like to learn more about a human who can ta a wyrm. System or not, you don't seem like a fighter. You feel more suited to a mage role."
lina activated to retain her calm exterior.
Now I am certain that he's seen in visions. A small village girl doesn't resemble a mage in any way. However, his mories are certainly incomplete. If he rembered properly, Elowen wouldn't be this calm.
"I'm afraid you're vastly overestimating my abilities. I am just a baker's apprentice," she said.
"Wait… a baker? That… That can't be right," Elowen frowned.
"It is true. Everyone in Sunglow knows that," Alistair confird.
"Why don't we head inside? I'll show you," lina said, then noticed her dirty hands. "Just let wash up quickly."
They headed inside, where Gilbert first looked surprised by the company, then annoyed. "Oh, great. You've made a new friend. And this ti it's an elf."
"I'm sorry for the intrusion, Master Gilbert," Alistair bowed slightly.
"Excuse for the rudeness. There are matters I wished to discuss with your apprentice. My na is Elowen Freyer."
"Yeah, yeah. If you were truly sorry, you wouldn't have intruded in the first place. Head into the living room and wait there. At least have the common decency to let a lady wash up," Gilbert grumbled.
lina felt a bit bad for Alistair. He didn't really deserve the verbal beating. But on the other hand, Elowen looked even more out of his elent. Elves took the rules of hospitality seriously, and intruding into another's person's ho was not sothing done without a good reason.
She'd use it to her advantage. lina hurried upstairs and headed into the bathroom. Elowen might have caught her unaware in the morning, but she felt far more comfortable in her ho, with Master Gilbert nearby. So she washed up and put on one of her nice dresses to appear more like a human girl rather than a mage.
After so ti, when she was clean and her heart was calm, she headed downstairs. Elowen and Alistair were both sitting silently in the living room, looking gloomy. The mont she entered, both of them perked up.
Elowen looked mostly relieved that the wait was over, but Alistair… She didn't quite understand the expression he bore. He was gaping at her with wide eyes. Did she look weird? Maybe this dress was a bit much for the occasion.
As much as she would have liked to understand what that expression ant, lina's first task was to deal with Elowen. "So, Elowen, right? What exactly did you want to know? How I tad Sienna?"
The wyrm was sitting on her usual spot on lina's shoulder, eyeing Elowen suspiciously.
"Yes. That was one. Quite frankly, I've never seen a human so close to a monster before. Discounting any fighting, of course."
"lina tad Sienna when I wasn't able to defeat her," Alistair said, sowhat ashad.
"It was not your fault. Besides, my success is largely due to good luck," lina said, and then explained the partially fake story she had told to Sunglowers. That Gilbert had provided her with the recipe, that she'd gotten feyfruit from a contest, and how the only actually impressive thing she did was handing the tart to Sienna.
"Fascinating… to think that sothing like that could be done. I understand now. It honestly puts my mind at ease. I've always hoped that humans would try to learn more about monsters instead of just killing them. For the longest ti, it seed like humans would never learn, but I see that there is hope now."
Suddenly, Elowen clutched onto his head as if struck by pain.
"Are you alright?" She asked, jumping up from her seat.
Elowen held up his hand, forcing her to pause and wait. After a mont, he took a deep breath and opened his eyes. "I've said these words to you before, haven't I?"
He just saw the vision, didn't he? The circumstances were a bit different then, but he had indeed told her those words before. It was the first ti lina disobeyed an order from the Church, instead staging the death of the rare phoenix and letting it go free.
Alistair perked up, his eyes looking hopeful. Wait, why was Alistair looking at her like that? It was as if he, too, rembered. Didn't he erase
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