Deep within the caverns of Surefall Glades, the young half elf sits and meditates. She seems unconcerned to the presence of the bears that wander around past her, and they seem unconcerned about her presence. She sits calmly until she hears a call from her mentor, Calina. She opens her eyes and finds herself face to face with a bear cub, who lickes her face and she laughs and pets it as she stands up. She runs to the ledge and dives off into the pool of water below and swims through a few underwater passages before coming up behind the ranger house. She swims towards the eleft and pulls herself out of the water and runs to the druid house and presents herself before Calina.
Calina smiles at her students wet appearance and hands her a towel. "You could just walk down, little one." The young student, Alisande, smiles and nods "Yes, I know, but I like to swim." Calina nods and sighs softly, know her news won't be well received by the young druid before her. "I have a mission for you, Ali." Alisande looks up from drying off and gives her mentor a long look "Where?" Calina gives an impish smile, hoping to soften the blow, "Ak Anon. There is a young gnome there, about your age who needs help. He has been unsuccessful in finding someone willing to help and his mentor contacted me and asked me for this favor, as we are old friends. I need you to go to Ak Anon and pick him up and help him with his quest. His name is Lolli." Ali sighs and makes a face "Gah, Calina. I detest Ak Anon, all that ticking makes me feel like I am going insane." Calina smiles "Well, I will let my friend know to have Lolli meet you at the entrance then." Alisande nods and bows to Calina and moves off to sit and memorize the spell she needs to get her to Ak Anon, Ring of Steamfont.
As soon as she is done memorizing it, she stands and begins to gather her mana around her, and within a few moments, a magical portal opens and she steps through into Steamfont. She gathers her mana once again and casts Spirit of Wolf on herself and when she is done, she runs off, fast as a wolf. She heads towards Ak Anon and after passing a few gnome guards, who become a blur because of her speed, she arrives at the city entrance. Walking in, she immediately hears that horrible ticking and groans softly. She thinks to herself that she isn't too fond of gnomes, although she wouldn't admit that to her mentor.
She walks around the entrance of Ak Anon till she hears a masculine laugh behind her and there stands a gnome, dressed in black, holding her spell book. "You should be more careful with this thing," he says as he hands it back to her. She grows very cross with him "Filthy rogues, can't you keep your hands to yourself?" He grins at her "Not when someone as fine as yourself walks in. May I help you, m'lady?" Alisande glowers at him, "Unless your name is Lolli, no you may not." The gnome smile grows even wider, "As a matter of fact, that is my name." He pulls out his identification plate for her to see.
She sighs softly and sounds unhappy as she speaks "Fine, where do you need to go?" He grins when he realizes she doesn't like him, knowing he loves a challenge and he wants to see how much she can like him, he changes his demeanor a bit and grins to himself. After all, what better thing to steal then the heart of a half elf druid, filthy animal loving tree huggers. "I am sorry I swiped your book, I just wanted you to be more careful here, Rogue's abound here and most aren't as honest as I am" he says kindly. She looks up at him curtly "Thanks, now where are we going?" He smiles "Freeport". She nods and starts to memorize Circle of Commons, the closest she can get to Freeport. She finally stands and starts to gather her mana and casts Spirit of Wolf on him and then gathers her mana once more and within moments the portals open and they walk through to the druid rings in West Commonlands. He thinks to himself "at least druids are helpful in one way... Taxi's" He looks to her "meet you at the bank in freeport?" She nods tiredly and takes off running towards Freeport. He follows her and smiles to himself, at least he picked a cute treehugger to mess with.