Sentire snores quietly as she snuggles up more about herself as she slept, hoping her own body heat would beat the cool sea air. A fire, long since burned out, snaps once in a while beside her as some embers remain. Though it was ultimately a shake of the land that made her snort away and sits up, rubbing her eyes and then shakes her head as she looks around the makeshift of a camp before looking out to the sea as she sees the sea moving along and land approaching.

Sentire yawns as she gets up and stretches, making sure her hands cracks and hooves makes a slight clacking sound on the somewhat stone ground before walking off to the nearby pond and jumps in and relaxes against the sides as she closes her eyes before opening them and looks up to a heavily blacked cloaked figure standing above her, holding a metal scythe in its hand.

"Did they allow me now?" Sentire asks as she kept looking up and doesn't bother to cover herself as the ones she has met doesn't seem to care if she did or not.

The figure nods and holds the scythe sideways above her before dropping it and Sentire catches it before it can drop into the water. "You are allowed to use the first two levels freely. The rest of them are only to be used if we allow it. Understand?" the voice asks in a raspy voice.

Sentire nods as she stands in the small pool and tests the weight of the scythe before giving it a swing and feels the weight go away for a bit as it seems to extend among the metal bar in pieces before coming back together before it can hit the figure. "I understand."

The figure nods, "Good. He is also yours now. He will be our connection to you, caretaker, and watcher. If anything has happened to you, you can sure he will act."

Sentire bows slightly as she holds the scythe in her hands. "I understand Death."

Death breathes out heavily and lets a heavy stench of decomposing air wash over, though it didn't seem to bother her as he does visit often. "Good. Now collect and put on mortal possessions. They don't follow the same rules as we do," he says before walking away and walks behind a tree, leaving Sentire to see nothing come out the other side.

Sentire stares at where he went before stepping out of the pool and walks toward the campfire before taking her new scythe and taps the ashed logs left behind, making some of the ash moves and falls off the logs before it moves away from the campfire pit on its own and then collects in an area a bit away as Sentire watches before more ash collects and makes a shape of a large four-legged animal at her waist height. The ash starts to condense and starts to become more defined and forms a canine shape before the ash darkens and a wave of a dark fog washes over its body, covering it from head to tail before bright red eyes opened on its head.

The large animal looks toward Sentire and looks the pink mare over, noting the large breasts that she grew over her teachings and large flank that sure would capture the eyes of any male looking for a mate with a light blue mane and tail with a dark blue surrounding it in a sort of aura around the hair and then the red coal eyes travel up to her green eyes. It then sees the scythe in her hands and nods, padding off towards the north end of the island.

Sentire stares as it leaves before slowly looking to the stones covered in moss nearby and goes to it before opening it to some cloth that the mortals need to wear. She takes them out and starts to put them as she has learned how to in her teachings. It was only when she was finished did she take the scythe in her hands again and walk where the dark animal went and finds it looking out from the edge of the forest line and she sees a large amount of white buildings that looked new, but she knew they were at least half a century old and a few water vessels sitting in the sea at the edge of the buildings.

Sentire feels a prod to her side and sees the animal nodding his head and she nods back before getting on its back. The animal growls under its breath before jumping off the large island that was heading toward the shore, but now stops and then slowly reserves itself, making it go back out to sea. Sentire looks back as her home for many years now leaves, probably never to be seen again. She then gasps hard as she grunts and flattens herself against the animal as it lands on the stone ground at the shore.

"You ever saw that before?" Sentire hears as her ears perk up towards the side of them as they take in the site of metal and stone being built and moved around.

"A mare wearing almost nothing and threatening to pop out of them, riding a black dog who just landed on the docks? Yeah, seen it a million times," she kept hearing and looks to the side to see two males holding some boxes and rope.

"Ok, that sarcasm was unnesscr…when did that storm roll in?" the dock worker asks.

Sentire and the animal turn towards the sea and sees dark clouds with lightning striking the sea, creating a dense fog, coming at them and the city. Sentire taps the animal slightly and he tenses up before jumping high and lands on a tall building as they watch as the light fog washes over the area and moves inland. She frowns as almost every mortal she sees goes into the buildings and closes the doors and windows, possibly fearing the incoming storm, but not the fog as she sees most of them walk through it without fear.

Sentire looks back to the storm as it quickly washes over the area, making rain fall all around them and over the buildings. Making many mortals rush indoors. Sentire sighs and gives a few more taps to the large animal she is riding and he jumps and lands on the wide trails, looking to the windows on the buildings and sees many mortals cowering inside as the animal walks on down the trail.

"I'm telling you, Leandra. Let's just hop on the first boat out of town. 'I want to bid this place?', as the Prench say, 'Au Revoir,'" a voice says.

Sentire blinks and turns her ears toward the voice and sees two mortals still outside. She tilts her head as she taps the animal's side and he understands and walks towards them. "Hello?" Sentire spoke up and catches their attention. "Is there is a tavern nearby?"

"…think she is with him?" the male asks.

"Really? Riding that thing?" the female, possible Leandra, asks looking to him.

"Well, he does have horrible taste going for the shining and gaudy things. Seems something he would do," the male says.

Sentire was just confused as they talked about someone important. "Excuse me?" she calls out again and catches their attention. "Do you know a tavern around here?"

"Okay. They can't be that clueless," the male says scratching his head.

"Come on Trial. Let's find one," the female practically brags.

"You just want to drink, don't you?" Trial asks amused.

The female grins. "What do you think?" she asks walking off with a skip in her step.

Trial facepalms and follows after wordlessly.

Sentire looks down to the animal as it looks up to her, both trying to figure out what's going on before shrugging and he follows after them.


"How hard is it to find a building with a mug sign?" the female asks after a while of walking as the fog has now disappeared and only the rain and lightning remains.

"How hard is it to find a building marked tavern and why are you following us? Are you a spy?" the male asks turning around quickly.

Sentire and the animal stop at that before he walks around the male and follows the female as Sentire stares at him confused, "I am not…whatever that is. I just want to eat and drink."

"Ah ha! Found one!" the female yells.

They both look toward her jumping around in front of a building before she rushes inside and Sentire gets off the animal before rushing inside as well.

The animal looks back to the male before shrugging to him and walks in as well. Only a few seconds passed before the door opened again and the large animal was brushed out the door with a straw broom. "Shoo. Stay out," the male owner says before shutting the door, leaving the canine to blink confused.

Trial, seeing this, laughs as he walks in.

The canine growls at him and vows to bite his tail.

Sentire sighs in relief as she sits down with the female who is very excited. "Okay, first things first. Age?" the bartender asks getting out three glasses.

"Twenty-one here," the female says proudly and the bartender nods and fills up a shot.

"How about I pay you enough and you don't ask questions?" Trial asks, obviously in a bad mood.

"Because I can lose my damn job and never serve here again. You want the drink or not?" the bartender asks holding up the bottle.

Trial puts a small bag of gold coins on the counter and says nothing.

The bartender stares at it and opens the bag slightly before filling the last two glasses and leaves the bottle. "Enjoy," he says towing the bag and walks away.

"Food as well," the girl calls before taking a drink.

The bartender grunts as places a tray of chips before them. "Enjoy," he says again as he walks off.

"She wants some meat," Trial says laying his head on the table.

A glass breaking sound is heard as most of the bar looks to them and then to the female who was grinning as she takes another shot and the bartender could only be confused. "O…kay," he says slowly as he watches into a freezer before taking out a cold plate of meat and puts it before them. "Didn't know I was serving griffons in disguise."

"Oh...you're one of those," Trial says not bothering to look up.

"One of what?" the bartender asks as Sentire stares at the piece of meat.

"Leandra, eat quickly. Then we are out of here," Trial instructs.

"You can't tell me how to enjoy my food. You are not my father," Leandra counters before grabbing the meat and tears into it.

"No, but you use me as your fuck toy when you want," Trial says miffed.

Sentire blinks and looks between them at that point as she tries to understand how these mortals work in these types of societies.

Leandra waves her hand dismissively as many in the tavern seem to barely hold their food down.

Trial just sighs as he drinks his last shot before Leandra finishes and licks her fingers as she gets up with Sentire following after finding her drink.

"Just please do not get drunk. This time, we are leaving tonight, the first boat to the east," Trial reminds.

"Details, schmetails," Leandra says waving him off.

"Oh, we talking about your measurements now?" Trial asks.

"Only if you give yours," she says walking outside with Sentire following close behind.

"Oh, you already know them," Trial says following, taking the bottle.

Sentire hums as is still confused at the conversation as she gets back onto the animal who is growling at Trial.

As Trial walked past, the dog went to bite him and next thing it knew, it was slapped across the muzzle. "No. Bad dog," Trial says before bringing out a squirt bottle and sprays him. "Now think about what you tried to do." The dog growls as it glares at him only to get squirted again.

Leandra, seeing this, starts laughing before her eyes move to the bottle in Trial's hand.

Trial smirks as he points the bottle at her, "Yeah. You know what this means."

"Boat," Leandra says.

"Then this is for you," Trial says shaking the mostly full bottle.

"Alright. So what about her?" Leandra asks.

Sentire looks between them as they both stare at her. "How about we play a game?" Trial asks grinning.

"Can I do this one?" Leandra asks.

Trial nods and tosses something to her, "Be my guest."

"Alright. If you can catch this queen of hearts out of the air before it hits the ground, then you can keep following us. If not, you leave us be. You can only grab one, though. Any more and you automatically lose," Leandra says showing her the card before adding nine more and shuffles them.

Sentire tilts her head as she watches while still sitting on the dog as finally, Leandra stops shuffling before tossing the deck into the air. Sentire blinks at the number of cards before swinging her hand and stabs a card with her scythe and swings it down to her. "Is this it? Do I win?"

"You went too easy on her Leandra," Trial says.

"I didn't expect her to get it on the first try," Leandra says taking the card and looks it over.

"Fine, let's just find a boat and leave," Trial growls.

"Can I propose a game?" Sentire suddenly asks getting off.

"Double or nothing?" Leandra asks.

Sentire hums, "You have to do what I say," she proposes.

"No deal," Trial says immediately.

Sentire shrugs, "There is something on these lands which are better than across the sea. Travel with me or travel on the sea. Win, you travel with me."

"A condition for that," Trial says looking to her.

Sentire tilts her head and waits.

"If we do that, we have to make a profit," Trial says.

Sentire blinks before turning to the dog and reaches into him as the dog seems unfazed before pulling her hand out and holds up some gold coins and jewels, "Like this?"

"Yes. We do have to work to make money so we can eat," Trial says, making Sentire understand.

Sentire hums, "Okay. Game?"

"You put it forward. You choose," Trial says as Sentire notices something.

Sentire frowns slightly as she spies him spinning a chess piece in his hand. "The game is to guess the card," she says reaching into the dog again and takes out a deck of cards that looked brand new. "What is the card on the bottom?" she asks taking out two cards and tossing it to the dog who eats them.

"King of Diamonds," Trial says.

Sentire pulls out the bottom card. "Ace of spades," She says showing the one large piece card.

'At least we are getting paid,' Trial thinks as he says nothing.

Sentire throws the cards to the dog who bites and eats them. "Let's go," she says getting on him and he pads off toward inland.

"Trial, what about Mr. Sunshine?" Leandra asks.

"We'll deal with him later," Trial answers.

Sentire perks her ears at that as they follow.


"Seriously, we couldn't get a wagon hooked up on this thing?" Trial asks, throwing his hands to the dog who growls at him, making him spray it.

"I don't know. I find it amusing, you spraying it every so often," Leandra says smirking.

Trial looks proud of himself as he kept spraying away.

Sentire shakes her head amused as she kept an eye out ahead. "Dusk, you better right because the map is finicky," they hear behind a wall of rocks.

"Who was that?" Trial asks.

"I'm sure Rainbow. All the things that Solaris sent are becoming troubling," Dusk says as they move to the wall and climb up it to see over the edge to see two ponies, one in noble mage robes and the other dressed like Sentire, but more modest and having goggles on her head as she glides around with her wings, walking past a bit away.

"Who's the prick?!" Leandra calls, throwing her voice, making it seem like a faraway echo.

"The fuck?" Rainbow asks looking around as Dusk looks worried.

"Shall we go?" Trial asks.

Sentire leans closer as she kept watching. "No," she says getting up and walks down the rock wall and heads toward them.

"Stick to the shadows," Trial says to Leandra as he squirts the dog again for going after his tail again.

Rainbow hums as she kept looking around before pointing past Dusk, "There. Something's cominnnnn…" she trails off as she sees a pony walking up to them, but it was what she is wearing…or rather lack thereof that caught their attention. "The fuck?"

Dusk blinks at the sight, not noticing blood leaking from his nose. "What the…?" the shut in bookworm tries to ask as Sentire stops before them and reaches out to Dusk slowly.

"Holy Solaris. Dang Dusk. I think you got lucky," Rainbow says grinning at his reaction.

Sentire tilts her head at what she said before lowering her hand. "Where are you going?" she asks carefully, noting that Dusk had wings and a horn.

Dusk stutters, "Buh…du…disappearing…ponies," he tries to say as he points to where they were going.

Sentire looks that way and then looks back to them. "Let's go," she says walking where he is pointing as Dusk follows her with his gaze and travels down to her flank.

"Wow," He whispers.

"Any bounty for it?" Trial asks walking up.

Sentire looks to him, "No. Well…I don't know. It seems they might be agents for someone."

"That is why I am asking them," Trial responds.

Rainbow knocks Dusk's head a bit to get him back into the game and sees a stallion walking up dressed in a scarf covering his entire head and a cloak while spying some armor under it. "What do you want?"

"For you to answer my question. Is there a reward for that?" Trial repeats.

Rainbow became confused at that, "Why are you asking? You a merc?"

"Could say that. Now answer," Trial says shaking his head.

"I don't know. Dusk usually gets this stuff and we aren't paid much," Rainbow says rolling her eyes at the absurdity of it.

"Well, your royal thinks himself better than others," Trial says.

"The fuck are you talking about?" Dusk asks, finally back to normal at the sound of him taking off about Solaris.

"You idiot. I'm surprised that your fabled commander lets you go on this. Probably has a spot in the bank just for you and giving you all the gold you need while not giving to anyone else," Trial says bitterly.

"Why you…! Prince Solaris is a great ruler!" Dusk starts as his magic flares.

"He is a prick that would rather kill you instead of paying you," Trial says.

Dusk growls as his hands and horn glowed with magic before a white blade suddenly came between them, causing them to stop. "That's…Death's scythe," Dusk says fearfully, remembering the pictures and fables that even Solaris use to tell as he took in the handle details.

"Holy…" Trial tries to say before they all look over and follows the handle to Sentire who seems to be staring at them both.

"Can we please go? More life might be at risk," Sentire asks swinging the blade behind her.

"Only if there's pay," Trial says and then jerks his thumb to Dusk. "And he doesn't come. Maybe I'll get it from the ponies nearby."

Sentire hums before turning and walks off. "Follow me," she says and Trial felt himself move. "Listen to the deal better."

"Why? I already sense something coming at us," Trial says.

Sentire takes out her scythe again as they felt a rumbling. "Good," she says, staying where she is standing.

Trial, seeing this, unfurled his wings and flaps into the air with the blue mare pegasus.

Dusk frowns as he kept his magic up and waits for where it might come out as Leandra watches from the rock wall.

"He always this stupid?" Trial asks the mare.

"Unfortunately. Course it also involved going into the Everfree Forest," Rainbow says the last part to herself.

"I mean he is looking around. It's going from below the ground," Trial says.

"I don't understand his thinking and nopony else does," Rainbow says crossing her arms as she watches the ground.

"Looks like arrogance is something all alicorns have apparently," Trial says, knowing full well Dusk could hear every word.

Dusk's ear twitches as he tries to keep his attention to whatever is coming at them. "You kidding? He's stubborn too. Sometimes won't come out of his indoor library at times," Rainbow quips.

"He's going to die as that makes him the most vulnerable prey right now," Trial says.

A rumbling started to shake the ground and everyone tenses up before the ground ahead of them starts to break up and shoot up before a roar was heard as a large chunk of ground broke up and a large sharp rock looking head came out, roaring loudly as the head splits and shows a large number of sharp teeth coming at both Sentire and Dusk while the body came out of the ground that had heavy plates of scales while little four legs with pieces of plates and sharp claws fly under and behind it.

"It's a Bulette. Someone hasn't been clearing out monsters," Trial says.

Sentire swings her scythe back and then swings toward the creature as it flies at her before the scythe locks between the jaws and it fall to the ground, monetarily confused before shaking its head and sending Sentire flying around before flying off and lands her back against the rock wall. "Trap him," She orders and the large dog comes out from the ground and latches it jaws onto the Bulette's leg.

The bulette looks to it before opening its jaw wide and goes to eat the dog in one bite. A blast on its head makes it stop and turn to Dusk who is charging up another magic shot.

"That's not going to help. Bulettes are very resistant to magic," Trial says reaching into one of his cloak's pockets.

"Oh boy. Here we go," Leandra says as she watches the spectacle.

The dog was thrown off and slams hard into the rock wall as the Bulette advance on it, intending to devour it.

Sentire yells out as she throws herself onto the top of it and tries to grab the handle of her scythe as it shakes itself, trying to throw her off. Then suddenly, it stopped moving. "You mind getting off. It's about to get messy," Trial says holding out his hands at the Bulette.

Sentire quickly jumps off as she goes to the dog and grabs it legs and throws it away so it can't be harmed much.

Trial quickly pulls his hands to the side and away from him, making the bulette's front leg explode into pieces and blood. The bulette roars as it falls to the side a bit, trying to turn to him and roar at Trial.

"I really should be getting paid for this, but oh well," Trial says before doing a swatting motion at the Bulette.

The bulette roars as marks of blood appear on its side and back, even on some of its legs piece by piece.

"Now be silent," Trial says as he seems to pull something back.

The bulette was stock still before it falls apart in half from head to its nonexistence tail. "Not worth our time," Trial says unamused by this.

Sentire raises an eyebrow as she grabs her scythe from the split corpse. "This is good."

"Shall we go? I would prefer to be as far away from Mr. High and Mighty there," Trial says.

"Hey!" Dusk yells.

"Can we? I would rather not be near one who is so close to the genocide king of these lands," Trial says.

"He is a kind prince!" Dusk defends angrily.

"Who hires ponies to do a job and instead of paying them, has them murdered to avoid it?" Trial asks sarcastically.

"Ok, what brought that on?" Rainbow asks breaking it up.

"He tried to do it to me is why," Trial says, silencing both of them.

Both Dusk and Rainbow stop themselves at that point as the dog pads back to them before Trial scoffs and starts to fly off. "Hey! Wait up! You know I can't fly!" Leandra yells running after him. Sentire blinks before shrugging and tossing her scythe and the dog bit it out of the air and swallows it as she follows calmly.

"Dusk?" Rainbow speaks up.

"Yes, Rainbow?" Dusk asks back as they watch them leave…towards their town.

"We have a problem," Rainbow says.

"When don't we?" Dusk asks before running after them as Rainbow flies off with him.

"You are the student of a murder," Rainbow says.

"Don't say that. Prince Solaris would never be like that," Dusk defends holding a frown.

Rainbow says nothing and flies towards Ponyville.