A/N: Edited as of 11/2/2014. There were some misspellings among other things I failed to catch during the first editing process. Finally managed to get around and fix them.

Whisper probably looked like a loon to the people outside the Guild. After all it sure seemed like she was talking to herself. However, it's not her fault she shared a room with someone who was practically a mute. It also wasn't her fault that this someone had been her best friend for many years. After all it's only natural that she be able to understand an entire sentence that her fellow warrior wished to say by a simple flick of a finger. He barely spoke his mind and she needed to find someway to understand the person she shared a room with. If she hadn't found out how to do so she would have likely gone truly insane within the first year. Luckily for her the man had proved to be at least somewhat expressive with his body language. So Whisper trained hard and by her third year of being roommates with Barron she had been able to understand even his most complicated of thoughts through small gestures. So, in Whisper's mind, this completely justifies stopping mid sentence in one of their seemingly one sided conversations in order to give Leo a death glare when she noticed him looking at the duo with a perplexed expression.

However, their staring match was put on hold when Barron poked her knee. This was his way of asking if she was alright. At least that's how he asks when they're sitting. When standing he would poke her shoulder but that doesn't matter right now, because they're sitting. Relaxing in the bench they had currently occupied she nodded her head to let him know that she was indeed fine. The small smile disappeared as soon as it had appeared and Barron rolled his wrist in order to ask her to continue the previous conversation.

"Oh, that? Yeah, my brother told me that if you're not renown enough the table won't let you take certain quests. Something about it guarding the thoughts and emotions of the people who sent the quest. Stupid right?"

He nodded.

"Seriously, why focus on how famous you are with people rather than your actual skill. It's impossibly easy to get famous in Albion as warrior for doing simple tasks or just making up stories."

He nodded again. Yes, this duo were on the same page a good percent of the time.

"Don't old Chicken Chaser there ever talk?", Leo asked from his tiny outdoor shop.

"It hurts his throat. If he spoke more often his throat might get stronger. But you don't need to do you, Farmboy?"

Barron shook his head.

"Why not?"

"'Cause he's got me as a rival!", Whisper said boisterously.

Under his breath Leo said, "I wouldn't be to happy about that if I were him."

Before Whisper could retort she heard a man shouting at someone. Barron got up and wandered towards the source of the noise, ignoring Whisper's calls to just come back and sit down. After a few moments she begrudgingly decided to follow him. When she caught up she saw him standing between a poorly groomed man and some teenaged punk.

"Something wrong?", Barron barely managed to say in his scratchy, often underutilized voice as Whisper came to stand next to him.

"Used to be an adventurer, like you two.", the man complained. Inwardly Whisper groaned at having to deal with some washed up hack. If what Thunder said was true the Guild had far to many squatters already.

Continuing on the ex-adventurer said, "But look at me now: pitifully begging to survive and being bullied by this brat all the time." Whisper briefly wondered why the man didn't just fight the punk. If he had truly been an adventurer at sometime he should have at least a little combat skill. At first Whisper thought Barron would agree with her but in a rare occurrence the ends of the his eyebrows drooped down. He actually pitied the man. Barron looked over at her blankly and then tilted his head towards the brat for a moment. Not fully believing what her friend was asking she quirked her eyebrow. He nodded which caused Whisper to break out into a malicious grin.

"What are you tw-OWE!", the teen brat screamed as Whisper kneed him hard in the groin. The teenager fell to ground and clutched at his pained vital regions. The ex-adventurer let out a hearty chuckle that almost caused him to fall upon the ground as well. However, the fun was soon over for the duo when Barron's Guild Seal began to glow.

"Maze is looking for you in the Bowerstone tavern.", the Guildmaster's voice rang out from the Seal. Barron looked up at her apologetically. Whisper understood though. She knew that the one thing Barron sought was revenge against the people who stole his family away. She was lucky that his one track mind would go out of it's way to make room for her in all honesty.

"It's fine,", she assured, "we'll be challenging each other over something again soon. We are rivals aren't we, Farmboy?"

He nodded, and just like that he ran off towards Bowerstone.

I wanted to get some Whisper/Barron friendship feels in before plot happened. Also Leo might be a recurring character for gags. Haven't decided yet.