1Next chapter if I write anything more I will be too distracted to write.
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"West, that is where we are going,"Talim answered firmly. The winds were guiding her that way and that was the way she'll go. Talim grabbed her bag and started walking. Yungsung easily keeping up with her. The nearest village was about two days travel on foot, and so with a spring in their step they made it there in one and a half.

Talim had heard rumor of the village inn in that town. The very second someone books a room, the whole town is in a mad rush to book in. Though there are other inns in the town, this one has the best deal in the area. The cost per room is two pieces of gold, that includes taxes. And it comes with the best breakfast short of living on the farm.

Needless to say Talim was curious. After they booked rooms the mad rush started and Talim was genuinely surprised the rumors were true.

Talim and Yungsung took it upon themselves to roam around the town for a while. Talim immediately saw a small shop that was run by a man from India. That was really a rare sight so Talim wandered over to it. Leaving Yungsung to the crowd, he can find something to do, Talim figured, as she walked in. After a few minutes of looking Talim saw the an outfit that was screaming her name. It took a moment to even realize that someone was in fact calling her she looked under the outfit to see an old friend of hers. "Jonas! Why are you out of the village? Hello!" Talim said happily.

Her friend crouched out of the rack of women's clothing. He smiled, and then promptly shoved Talim with the outfit in hand to the draped off area that looked like a change room.
"You left on your birthday so I couldn't give you your gift so try that on and if you like it I'll buy you it," Jonas told her as he gave her one last push to the change room.

This was a nice surprise Talim thought as she tried on the outfit. He always found someway to make her feel better. She had missed him while she was gone and it was nice to see him. She never had much of any feelings for him aside from the fact that they were friends and they had always told each other who they liked and they both made attempts to get the other to share the feelings it rarely ever worked but that was the fun part.

Talim walked out into the room and was kind of embarrassed she felt kind of weird in this but she liked it. "Hmm," the shop keepers wife muttered as she saw Talim."There is something missing, can you come here?" the lady asked.

Talim walked up to the lady. The woman brushed out Talim's hair and put it up. "Um Jonas what is she doing?"Talim asked as her hair was twisted up.
"There, now look," The woman said as she put a mirror before Talim. Her hair was tucked up in a hair ornament that looked like one her mother wore once. It looked nice. Jonas paid for the outfit but Talim made him let her pay for the hairpiece. "Happy birthday, Talim,"

"Thank you Jonas,"
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After a while Yungsung realised Talim had disappeared. "Grrhg not again" Yungsung growled as he went back to find Talim with a guy that he didn't know but she seemed comfortable enough with. She had her hair done up and she wore a broad grin that nearly matched her clothes, the grin was nice but who was the guy, he thought suspiciously, he wore clothes that looked like they were from the same country. An old "Friend" perhaps? He calmly. The guy and Talim then went wandering around town.

Yungsung stared after them for a while and then went to the local dojo. He found himself in need of a fight, anything to do besides follow Talim and whoever that guy was around. He walked up the steps of the dojo and opened the door. The room was a simple Asian style entrance that had a petite woman with black hair sitting on a cushion and looked to be meditating. Other than the cushion the room was empty.

The floor was a tatami mat and the walls were bare. "Hello, who is the guy in charge here, I want to train,"

The lady suddenly threw her bowl at him and then her cutlery that was certainly not from asia. He ducked under the bowl and turned it into a leap when the cutlery came. The fork was where his feet were a moment before and he could guess where the knife would have hit. She then threw the pillow and came out with a sword that was similar in design to his.

He pulled his sword out and the woman then came lunging at him he turned and just missed the blow. The lady recovered quickly and shifted her stance and came after him with swift kicks that he dodged under and retaliated with a kick of his own. He was familiar with the stance she had entered, as he had done it many times before. The crane stance was hard to hold for too long but you could slip into an easy triple kick that normally you would have to walk or run into.

"Not bad," she said with a flash in her eyes then swept herself into a spin and got up. She then took swift swipes at him that he deflected and put in some of his own. The battle had the feel of training to it so he used the flat of his blade instead of the sharp side and when she did manage to hit him he knew she was as well.

He then when they both were finally starting to tire they both get pulled back into a final burst of attacks and luckily his hit first and she fell back. "That was good, you got a lot going for ya already I can't teach ya much of anything except for this, you might eventually want to start wearing armor but that is only because long range weapons are getting better so you might want to keep your mid section under cover but for the moment that was good, keep up the good work,"

"Thank you Mia you took another student from me again, daughter oh, what am I going to do with you? Hm, I have to say that you are at least a decent fighter, are you not," an old man said as he entered the room. He had strange tattoos on his bald forehead and walked with a cane. But his voice had a youthful exuberance to it that belied his appearance. He sat down on a cushion he carried with him and opened a hidden compartment in the wall that had a teapot that was still steaming that was beside a set of teacups. -

For the moment this is it for the chapter. But I will keep going. So is my format any better. And well, yeah any other comments. Just so you know I am not sure about how you accept unsigned reviews so, I will have to get a friend of mine to help me again.