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Levy sat with Gramps, most of the other members of Fairy Tail were busy and Levy didn't want to get in the way, Lily lay at her feet, Happy and Carla were napping on their carpet near the wall. Erza, Hibiki, Mira, Yukino and Jet were still out tracking the Lords to each town they stopped at, most of the usual teams had been broken up to some degree and what was left were joining others to help. Juvia and Droy were helping Gajeel as he readied weapons, Ren, Eve and Sherry had joined with Warren, Nab, Max and Laki to help pack up the lair, in case they needed to escape quickly.

Natsu, Lucy and Gray were training in a large practise room deeper inside the mountain, Lucy especially needed to train up in case of attack or a fight. Lisanna and Kinana were still taking care of everyone and cooking food and pouring drinks while simultaneously taking stock of the kitchens, Elfman acting as weight lifter for the more heavy stock. Wendy and Romeo were taking care of medical supplies, Mavis hadn't moved from the table with the map of Fiore on it, Gildarts sat near her drinking wine or was it mead? Levy had forgotten.

Cana and Bacchus who seemed like the most carefree in the band were having a knife throwing contest and flirting as Levy had come to recognise with their skill against each other. Finally there was Laxus and his team Ever was bored fanning herself with a decretive fan, Bixlow was mostly distracting Lisanna and Freed was reading a very thick book in another language that Levy recognised as Ancient Fiorian, Laxus was just resting, not paying attention to much but Levy knew better his team were acting as bodyguards, just in case. Gramps too was quiet looking at the map that Mavis had been staring at, Levy stood up and walked over to Freed sitting down, he looked up surprised to see who was now sitting next to him.

"Can you read that?" she asks.

"Yes of course Princess" he says with a smile and a bow of his head, Levy waved off his formalities.

"I don't think I've ever seen that book what is it?"

"You've read Ancient Fiorian?" he asks shocked Levy nods with a smile.

"Well this is a history of Fiore from the first settlers of this land and the rise of royalty, the civil war that erupted and the ensuing peace, trade with the other kingdoms and the fall of democracy by the crown a few hundred years ago" Freed summarises.

"Wow I've read some texts on early settling and trade agreements but not the rest, where did you find this?"

"Well there are not many libraries in Fiore the sultan stole most texts and stored them in some underground vault, but this I found in one of the uncategorised stacks in a small town called Rosemary Village, which we came across months back"

"May I see?" Levy asks, Freed hands over the book and Levy reads the front and then the first few pages, she could translate it easily thanks to the lessons she used to take.

"Could I borrow this?"

"Of course Princess I've read it before, in fact I think I have another in Ancient Fiorian a more mythological based book but still quite interesting" he offers.

"I'd love to read it" she says honestly, Freed nods happily standing up and rushing out.

"Can you actually read that gibberish?" Laxus asks from behind her, Levy turns to him.

"It's not gibberish if you know how to read it" she tells him.

"You don't read it how we do, you read it from the top left and then read down then back up, it is difficult if you're impatient but it's quiet a lovey language I've found"

"Can you read any other languages?" he asks.

"Yes Alvarezinan which is a more sharp language, Edolain which is a complex code like language and Phyroxian you probably haven't hurt of it but it's an old language from an old culture"

"How did you learn these languages?"

"Well I used to have lessons every day on a variety of things, such as geography, history, languages, etiquette, dancing, commerce, strategy and defence"

"Defence?"

"Yes my father wanted me to learn about defence in case of a battle or skirmish, it's been years since then though, technically I can defend myself enough to cause distraction and run, which was the purpose of the lessons"

"I look forward to seeing that" he says with an amused grin as Freed returns with the book.

"I don't, I ended up with bruises every single time"

"That is how you learn" he says with a shrug.

"I suppose" Levy agrees, turning back to Freed the two of them get into an interesting discussion over the languages they knew and the books they've read.

Okay so I made up these languages, Ancient Fiorian was the original language of Fiore, Alvarezian is the language spoken and written in the neighbouring kingdom of Alvarez, Edolian is the language in another nearby kingdom and Phyroxian (FUH-ROX-IAN) is a sub-language founded in Fiore hundreds of years ago in a far off town (this may be brought up again in the future) I made up the name from Phoenix the name of the Fairy Tail movie.

P.S. I bought Fairy Tail Blue Minstrel at a book store today :)

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