Part 5

As soon as she got into Westfall Eirika saw a farmer and his wife standing over by the side of the road with their horse. Since her health muffins tasted rather disgusting, she decided to see if she could do anything to help them in exchange for some food.

Eirika listened to their sad story before she found out what they wanted her to do. Their farm had been attacked in the middle of the night and how they were driven away from their house by bandits. The man wanted her to venture to his farm and retrieve his pocket watch, while his wife wanted her to find some oats for the horse and deliver a recipe to the neighboring farm.

An extremely boring day of questing later and she was directed to help Lakeshire in the Redridge Mountains to the West, and Darkshire in Duskwood to the south. As she was heading towards the Griffon to fly to Lakeshire, she heard a voice calling her name.

"EIRIKA!, EIRIKA!". The source of the voice turned out to be a small, white haired gnome, with a rather serious expression on his face, and a balding spot on his head that was so shiny you could see your reflection in it if you bent over him. He was wearing a gold colored robe and carried the nicest staff she had ever seen, it had a small head but the staff was atleast twice his size, it had what looked like a cross-roads at the top and a blue gem in the middle of it. Other than that blue gem the rest of the rod was pearly white.

"There you are Eirika. I've been looking for you forever." He said. "I don't mean to be rude, but, do I know you?" Erika asked the balding gnome. "No, no you don't. but Asha'man asked me to come and test you, if you pass, you will become a member of The Knights of Davion." As the gnome said this he bowed so low his head almost touched the grass. "I am Quescent, but most people call me Q" the balding gnome said. "Q, where have I heard that before?" Eirika said to herself.

"Well, are you ready?" Q asked. "Ready for what?" Eirika replied. "What else? You're testing!" Q replied happily as he beckoned Eirika to come to a better spot for her testing. When they got to the hill Q was going to test Eirika on she put Fluffy down(what she named her new cat) and told him to stay there.

A few minutes later Eirika lay sprawled out on the grass panting. "Very good!" Q said, as he clapped for her slowly. "It isn't official, but I have to say I'm sure you're in." Q told her as he helped her up. "I have to talk to Slider about it still though."

"So I'll leave you now and I'll get back to you later about the results." Q told her. "Alright, in the mean time I'm headed for Duskwood and The Redridge Mountains." She told him.

"Alright, but, just watch out for dark days" Q said as he faded out.

"He certainly was strange wasn't he?" Eirika asked Fluffy, meow Fluffy replied, "Oh are ya hungry? Let's go get something to eat."

To be continued…