Alisande arrives back in North Qeynos in front of Crow's. She looks around and sees him sitting with a scowl on his face, watching her from the other side of the small square around the buildings and the pool of water. She sighs as she sees him, knowing he is still pissed at her and walks to him.



"Lolli, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have said that."



He glares at her and stands "Whatever, like no one has ever talked to me like that before. Fine, let's just go. I have to go back to Ak Anon and give something to my mentor." He gives her a mocking look "unless you are now too good to take me to Ak Anon, being such a high and mighty half elf druid."



All thoughts of being civil to this waste of gnomish skin disappears from her and she sits down to get her spell "Circle of Steamfont". She stands back up momentarily and glares at him "No, I'll take you, but I might just leave your sorry small butt there." With those words she begins to gather her mana and opens up portals for them and they step through. She starts to run away and he yells after her, "Hey, my spirit of wolf is gone, can I get another." She pretends not to hear him and keeps running, letting him make his way there in his own sweet time.



She runs up and down the hills of steamfont, past spiderlings and ebon draklings and escaped clockworks till she arrives at the entrance to Ak Anon. She still is freaked out by the ticking of the clockworks that do the menial labors of the gnomes and thinks that they are such lazy people. She is leaning against the outwalls of the entrance to the city when he comes up to her, huffing and puffing and giving her dirty looks around his loss of breathe. She smiles sweetly to him "Have a nice run?" He gives her a dirty look and walks in "I might be awhile, why don't you go play with a minotaur or something, referring to the caves not far from the city where a colony of minotaurs (half men, half cow) live. She rolls her eyes and sits down away from the entrance to escape the ticking as she waits for him.



After 2 hours, she falls asleep waiting for him. 2 hours later he appears and sees her sleeping. He wonders why she is so tired all the time, and figures that her spell casting must make her tired. He frowns to himself and mutters "Like I care, lousy druid". He walks over to her and kicks her in the side with his boot. "WAKE UP!" She groans and curls up around the part of her side where he kicked her and opens her eyes to glare at him. "No wonder people talk about you, you have got to be the worst example of gnome life on the face of Norrath. Don't you know the saying "Don't bite the hand of the one who feeds you? Well, don't kick the one who tp's you." He grins a slightly demented grin that he practiced long and hard on to hide his real feelings and steps away from her. "Well, don't fall asleep on the job then."



She sits up and slowly rises to her feet, wincing from the pain in her side. He notices her wince and squelches a feeling of regret for having kicked her. She gives him a dark look "Where to now then master? This assignment can't end fast enough." He sees her dark look and wonders why he feels so bad, but darkly mutters "Greater Faydark." She nods and memorizes her spell to get them to Greater Faydark and then opens the portals and they step through. She then casts Spirit of Wolf on them both and takes off through the twisted path that leads through the forest of Greater Faydark as he calls to her that he will meet her at the wood elf city of Kelethin. She arrives at the city and collapses against what is known as the Pod lift to the city of Kelethin. She looks up as he approaches and he feels a bit of panic seeing that she is still showing signs of pain and he masks his feelings again and says in a haughty voice "Oh, for Tunare's sake, just heal yourself, dumb druid." She stands up and smacks him across the face and says in a deep, dark voice that frightens him a little "NEVER TAKE THE NAME OF MY GODDESS IN VAIN AGAIN, OR I WILL STRAND YOU HERE, IS THAT CLEAR?" He stares at her and then turns and takes the Pod up to the treetop city and she stays below to cast greater healing on herself and heal her wounds. She didn't want him to know that he had hurt her so badly, but he had figured it out. Man, where had her good intentions of appologizing gone too? This assignment was turning out all wrong and Calina would be furious if she know that Alisande was being so rude to the annoying creature she was suppose to be helping. She finally came to the decision to just ignore his taunting and do what was needed with as little talking as possible when he comes back down the pod lift and steps in front of her.



She looks up at him as he crouches down a bit and looks her in the eyes "I'm sorry Alisande, you apologized and I was a jerk and didn't accept it. I guess I am just not use to people feeling regret for what they say to me and didn't know how to take it. You are right, most people can't stand me, and I accept your apology and ask for your forgiveness as well." Alisande just gapes at him, caught off guard by his apology and then nods slightly, "Apology accepted."



He grins at her, that boyish grin of his that throws her off guard and puts out a hand to help her up. "Truce?" She takes his hand and stands and gives him her first real smile "Truce". He is caught off guard by the beauty of her smile and blinks for a moment, not wanting to get to close to someone that has such a different opinion about life. He tells her that they will be going to Keledim, the dwarven city, and she starts to memorize her spell Circle of Butcher. He sighs inwardly to himself, hoping that the added time that was put onto his task due to this trip to Kelethin will not be his undoing. Already he was starting to feel more for the druid before him then he should.