ShadowKaktus: Hewwo again everyone. I see y'all back so let's not bother you all and start the readin'

Draozerox: Actually... We need to tell you guys something.

Each chapter will be a different character's pov. So its easier on us to write. Each of us will be writing our own characters, ShadowKaktus will write Shade, I will write Sil and Neo is a joint effort like the rest of the characters. As you will see, our writing styles are very different than one another. So keep that in mind when reading.

Good? Good, carry on then.

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Sil's POV

Light streams into the room, abundant and warm. I've always been quite the poetic person in my thoughts, and the scene I wake up to is simply poetry. It's our second day since our arrival, and I finally see the rest of the kingdom, awake.

The city as I've been told is split up into 8 sections, the main city itself octagonal in shape. From my window, I see the city bustling with activity. Beast people, elves, half-dragons, and even dwarves walk along the streets, humans just as abundant.

My room is facing the more northern part of the northwest quadrant, a large, royal-like building stands tall, little dots moving about. Past it, I see a beautiful small forest. In it, I can spot a small mansion, old but still radiating elegance. I save the memory for later.

After getting ready for the day, I put on a robe that was in the closet, the guards saying the previous day they were for me to use, and was about to leave when I remembered something.

A habit of mine that I've had my entire life, is to bring a backpack filled with things, useful or not, to school. I realized I had brought mine with me and immediately went to check inside it. Pens, books, some clothes, a face mask with a sharp teeth design, my phone, and my favourite black hoodie all were inside.

I immediately tried to call using the phone but no dice, still pocketed it anyway since it still had power and could be useful. In a split second decision, I put in the hoodie over my white robes, hood up, with the face mask to complete the look. The mirror showed that I looked fairly menacing, so I stuck with it. Let the day commence.

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As soon as I stepped out of the room, I hear a shriek.

"AHHHH!," I look to my right, seeing that it was the Princess, Pearl. Personally, I understand her concern against us, completely understandable circumstances and reaction. It did hurt that we didn't have her trust, but c'est la vie.

"Who are you? Where is the person who was in this room?" she exclaimed at the top of her lungs, hand gripping a rapier. I freeze for a second before taking off my mask.

"Forgive me, Miss Princess Pearl, it is just me, Sil," I say, slightly embarrassed.

She looked stunned and put her hand away. Her face still full of distrust, but calmer since she realized who I was. She looked at my choice of clothing oddly but didn't voice her thoughts.

"I have a question for your father and his magic advisors. As I went to sleep, I felt myself having a bit of a surge, I don't know what that was, however. Is that okay with you miss Princess?" I ask her as we started walking towards our destination.

She looked stunned, maybe she thought I would disregard her because of her treatment towards us yesterday. She nods, but once again is silent. I look in her direction, though older than us by a year or so, she is slightly shorter than me, normal, considering I am, although the shortest between the 3 of us, still tall for our people, taller than my family.

Ah, my family, I hope you are doing well after my 'death'. I pray for all of you, the least I can do for raising me kindly. Kind towards me even with my autism and flaws.

"Hey, you okay? You looked distant there for a bit. Sorry if I surprised you earlier," she asks, looking concerned and a bit apologetic. I simply nod.

"Just remembering about my family," I said to her. She looked surprised as if not expecting my reply. Her face then showed that she finally understood that we were children, just like her. Ones that miss their family. I think we are slightly younger than her, she looked to be 19 or so. But we still shared some similarities, lost, worried, but still figuring out the world, step by step.

"What were they like? Wait, how old are you three?" she asks, leaving me stunned this time. I falter slightly but told her everything. By the end of it, I believe we grew closer, her realizing that we were still somewhat children in the eyes of many, and she stopped outright hating us ( Me at least, Shade still annoyed her, but it wasn't outright hate. More like resentment towards the younger cousin you had. Baby steps Sil, baby steps.)

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The meeting between the King, his advisors and us went well enough. We brought up the offer that we would be allowed to hide our identities - myself included - while doing things around the kingdom. I brought up the idea of using an automaton to be a proxy King of sorts for me, and I hid as an advisor.

They agreed with this notion, respecting our wishes and wants. We ran some quick, if not in depth, test to check our magic affinity. During it, we learned that Neo had an affinity to Earth magic, Shade to the Wind magic, and me being neutral to all of them. A jack of all trades if you will. The head sorcerer offered to train me in the use of Puppetry, a form of magic, which, as the name implies, allows the control of objects from a certain distance. This would allow me to do the Proxy King Strategy much easier. No one would suspect that one of us is the King if we were around them all at once.

The advisors were slightly freaked out when they saw me in my ensemble but seemed to afraid to comment. Shade and Neo went their separate ways after said meeting. The King gave me 15 Elodg, their highest form of currency to spend as I wished. I asked what I could buy with such an amount. "An entire row of houses," replied the advisors.

Asking the Princess for directions - and consequently a suitable market to go comfortably-, she brought us to the Western Market, apparently known for its High-Class ( but still affordable ) trinkets and items. She chose to go out in a much simpler dress but didn't bother covering her face.

"Wouldn't you be recognized so easily if you go out like this? I mean your face is so exposed," I asked her as we left the castle. She turns towards me, an unamused look crossing her face, then gestures towards me, up and down my body. Touche'.

The Western market was bustling with activity, people of all races moving about. Though all of them made way for us. For the Princess or for me, I will never know. From what I could tell, the streets were lined with little stalls, bigger shops behind them. Food, clothes, souvenirs, everything you would want or need in one place. Humming to myself, I spot a blacksmith with an abundance of metals, copper and steel catching my eye.

At that moment, a carriage passed by us, rushing past with a gust of wind. That instantly got me thinking.

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The server stutters as he tells me the food they were serving that day. The entire dining hall silent, and has been since I entered ( ensemble and all). It's been 3 hours since we came back from the market, my hands full of some wire of metal and the sorts. A quick question to the advisors revealed that magnets had already existed and immediately I got to work on a dynamo. Results have been successful thus far. After my quick meal, however, the dining hall had silenced once more when the Princess comes barging through the door.

"Sil!," she says at the top of her lungs. Pulling up my mask, I stand and approach her, steps steady to hide my nervousness. "Yes, Princ-," I was about to say when she cut me off. " Just call me Pearl, okay?". Stunned, I nod anyway. " Yes, Pearl? What seems to be the problem?". Our audience was gaping, many believing that calling a royal by name was punishable for treason and disrespect.

She gives a long weary sigh, enough to tell me that it had something to do with Shade. Her stress coming off in waves. "Shade got angry at my mother earlier for reading his mind. The thing is, she wasn't even angry after that," Called it. Though my friend's anger is justified, privacy is the right of all.

"Shade has never liked anyone messing with his things, his mind included. Finding his secrets are worst. Think of it this way Pearl, even if your friend was the one who looked in your mind, even for your own benefit, would you like that breach of privacy? Imagine that, but with a complete stranger," her face immediately drops, but she understood the importance of what I said. She may be older, but our world had worse problems with privacy. To cheer her up, I told her that Shade would most likely live outside the city anyway, with his position. I also asked if the mansion I saw earlier that day was vacant. Her answer was yes, so I have many things to prepare for.