Chapter 3:

The girl looked up with the oddest look on her face. She quickly stood up and gave Brwanin a huge hug. Aayre's sister looks just like her, slender, beautiful, but just smaller. She was a warrior, just like Brwanin. She wore only a small, tight patchwork shirt, and patchwork pants. "Oh thank Rallos you were here. By the way, where's my sis?" "Well." Brwanin said with large exhale. "Mendary, while we were in Oasis on the dock, someone from her guild came out there with some sort of letter, some sort of summons." Mendary put her hand on Brwanin's arm, "I'm so sorry, I know how much today meant to you. Lets go home now." After collecting Mendary's sword and shield, Brwanin helped her up on his horse, he mounted, and then they rode off in the direction of Neriak. After passing an enormous log with new adventurers sitting on it, they rode past a tall hill, then saw the massive hole in the mountainside that was Neriak's entrance. There were two very large stone pillars out side the entrance with guards standing near both. The guards wore gleaming silver helmets and bracers. They also had red tunics, which covered their enchanted chain mail. As Brwanin and Mendary trotted by, the guards looked up at Brwanin and snapped into a salute. Brwanin laughed, "Its alright, come on guys, its me! Don't tell me you don't remember. Ever time you salute me, you owe me 2 plat." The guards laughed and one said, "Its good to see you back sir!" Brwanin smiled. "Keep up the good work you two, don't let those young'ens die. The guards chuckled, then one ran and bashed a skeleton up side its head. Brwanin smiled, then rode into the tunnel into Neriak. They came around a bend, and then they were at the top of a road leading down into Neriak Foreign Quarter. They rode down a little then to the right, where the stables were. Brwanin dismounted, helped Mendary down, and then tied his horse to the rail. There were a few more horses tied to the rail, another 2 black ones, 2 brown ones, and one tan one. Brwanin and Mendary turned at began to walk away. "BRWANIN!" someone shouted from the stables. Brwanin spun around. It was Marfal, Brwanin's old friend. He was a Shadow Knight; he wore dusty gray plate armor, and had his helm under his left arm. Brwanin ran over and then they embraced. "Marfal! So where have you bin all this time? Qeynos Hills?" Marfal smiled. "I wish we could chat, but I was here because your guild wanted me to find you, do you know how hard it is to track you down? I had to bribe little Mendary here to just get a clue to where you were! You need to get to your guild now." Me looked very concerned. Brwanin nodded, "Mendary, go home now, I have to go, here, 10 plat to stay out of trouble. I'll come find you when I'm done." Brwanin handed her a little pouch of coins, and ran off with Marfal tailing him. The city of Neriak consisted of three parts, the Foreign Quarter (connected to the outside), the Commons, and the Third Gate. Although quite large, Neriak is not that crowded. It has many residences, but you do not see them a lot. The warrior guild was located in Neriak Commons, far in the back do to its shier size. It was a huge stone building, smooth as marble. It had a main ramp leading up to enormous, steel inlayed, oak, double door. On either side of the ramp there were two smaller doors, which lead to the lower catacombs of the guild. Brwanin and Marfal slowed their pace to a walk when they came upon the ramp. They walked up the ramp to the huge door, and both with all their strength pushed on one side. The door had bin enchanted because even though there was only two of them, they were able to push huge, many tone door on their own. After closing the door, Marfal said, while catching his breath, "I'll wait here for you." Brwanin nodded, then walked down the stairs in front of the door. Immediately after the stairs, there was another set of double doors, but these were much smaller, slightly larger than normal doors. Brwanin pushed both open, with much ease. " Ah, Brwanin, there you are. Please come here, I have some startling news."