It was easy. Too easy. They were allowed in. Asked for help. And though it took a bit, he agreed.

That was the other thing. In texts she read about him being powerful, scary, dominating, and... Everything he isn't as far as she could see. She kept asking Nelly if she was dreaming. She knew that the Summon Spirits were gifted with either odd or enchanting looks, but nobody said they could look like teens and be hot about it too! And she wasn't going to admit that she wished that Richter, or whatever his name was, came along too.

There was one small thing that she disliked already about Ratatosk. His ability to ignore every question she's thrown at him. She asked him lots of things. How the Ginnungagap came to look like that, why did he have to rewrite the worlds laws, why does he look like a teenager, and things along those lines. The only response she got was a glare here and there. Nelly came over and told me if she could possibly restrain herself from asking, seeing as how she was annoying our only chance to closing the rifts.

About two hours more of silence on this ship, waiting to make port near Meltokio, and the signs of her starting to go nuts were appearing. Nelly and Ratatosk were too silent for her taste. Far too silent. Does anyone communicate or talk anymore or does every one stare out at the open sea. It's bad enough she spent a couple of hours like this, but they still had a days left of ship travel before they made port. Did either of them have anything to say?

"Are we giving each other the silent treatment? Because anymore silence is going to kill me" Lilia had to ask.

"Good, we would be rid of your annoyance." Ratatosk stated without taking an eye off the ocean.

Well so much for trying to make some kind of small talk. If this is what working with him was going to be like, someone can gratefully fire Lilia now. So another two hours went by without talking. The sun was starting to go down by this point. An aggravated sigh of boredom left her.

"Aren't you at all curious where the rifts locations exactly are? Not to mention you're going to be surprised that this world isn't the same as it was back then." He side glanced at me

"Nelly said 'near towns and villages' and I know what the world looks like. I don't live under a rock." He flicked his eye back to the ocean.

"But after the world merged it-"

"It was put back together differently. I said I already know what the world looks like." He restated.

"Perhaps it would be wise, Lilia, if we don't assume he doesn't know and just ask if he knows." Nelly said kindly, trying to rectify the situation a little.

She gave up. She got up from her seat and walked off to her given room on the ship and flopped onto her bed. Giving off a whine of defeat she decided to turn in. Hopefully tomorrow would be better.