He rushed into my life like a little disheveled kitten. With all his babbling, unkempt red hair and baggy clothes he didn't make favorable impression. Always wandering around, staring with big sparkling eyes at every knight he met, blurting out every single thought he had. Gosh, he was almost a pain in the ass. One moment he was here, listening to his mentor and in a twinkle he was somewhere else probably pissing someone off with an endless stream of words. And they said he was a knight-to-be. Surprising, isn't it?
As a knight in training he was transferred to our dimension in order to, I quote "get the basic experience in hand-to-hand combat and urgent healing". If I'm not mistaken there was also something about potion-making, chance to meet new species and so on but he just started to blurt out probably all the words he had in mind so I missed a lot from his introduction. Don't get me wrong, I enjoy new faces and our facility is in real need of all available hands. But this… this was far too much to process for one time. So all I was able to digest was:
"Chip."
"What?"
"Chip Thorn. That's my name. Actually it's Charlie but I only hear that when Daggeron is angry with me. Well, that happens quite a lot but I will be good, I promise. I mean, I'm always on the good side but…" With that he threw up his hands and got carried away with a train of words he managed to spit out like a stutter of a machine gun.
And that's when I realize this was about to turn into the longest month ever.