(One year later. Word Change. Character change )
She sat by the window and watched the sorcerer work with his golems, it was a peculiar thing, seeing a man that could wield such power simply working for no other reason than having a place to live and warm food to eat. To think that this was the same man that her father had found lying on a bed of the horses shit.
Again the man took out one of the strange papers or magic trinkets, in all honesty, she didn't know what they were, the only thing she did know was that whenever he took one out something would happen.
The land shook startling the animals, but they hardly cared anymore, they had gotten used to the feeling of the ground moving, before they would run away and both the magician and her father had to go bring them back, now they hardly spared a glance.
A greater turtle walked surrounded by horses each carrying their riders on their backs, behind them, however, was a great wagon that the turtle pulled and on that wagon was the corps of a five-legged lizard. The men had tied the wagon to the edges of the turtle's shell and the animal pulled the wagon as if weighed nothing at all.
Still, she smiled even as she turned and looked at the white-gray armor that was kept hidden from the world, for a brief moment she allowed herself to return to pointless thoughts, even if she knew she would never get any answers she none the less allowed herself to dwell on them.
"Who was he? had he been a price or a king of some far away land? Why did a magician wear armor and use a sword? And why had he simply chosen to stay?"
These thoughts amongst others were pointless, still, she dwelled on them, after all, it was fun to imagine things that could never be. She wasn't complaining, in fact, his arrival was a blessing, now there was plenty to eat, not a single person went with ought food and even the lowest of people worked with everyone else.
The village was now defended by a dirt wall that was covered in stone spikes and with wooden spikes, it was high enough to stop any horse that wanted to jump over it, but it slowed the men to be able to shoot arrows at anyone that they saw coming towards them.
He had used several of his creatures to help repair the broken homes of the people and the stables of the animals and if an illness was found he would heal it if was possible, more than once the man had been unable to fix or cure something and yet despite everything, the man was working completely alone.
The gentle hum of her singing as she cleaned the inn, reminded her she should be sweeping the floor rather than looking out the window, soon it would be time to open and the men would come in searching for food, a warm bed and a bath. Not wanting to be scolded by her mother she quickly began to clean, before she stopped again and noticed she was standing in front of his armor.
The armor glowed with some sort of power, at least that's what it seemed like when the sun touched it, but then it got dark it looked paled and frightening like if she was looking at something dead.
Still, she continued to work, her mother was someone that could frighten even wolves and she had seen this as the two wolves the man had given her ran whenever the woman became angered. To think that a pair of wolves would run away from her mother was just frightening on its own.
Right now Siver Fang and Gray were watching the doors so that no one tried anything while the inn was closed, it was hard to believe that with the good the village was receiving came greater problems, greedy merchants tried to sell things at an over price, it wasn't any different than normal, the problem was they wanted to be the first and in ovations the only sellers and buyers around.
Bandits were said to roam the outskirts of the village, which was the reason the hunters now took one of the man's creatures whenever they went hunting, the LumberJacks did the same. Yet despite all of this, there were more and more good things coming a rad was being made to the nearest neighboring village, it would allow the people to be able to get to each other faster in case they needed help.
The creaking sound of the front door opening and the fact that the wolves didn't bark told her the magician had just walked in, that meant the sun was going down and it was time to open shop.
So she stopped sweeping and ran to wash her face and change to a clean set of clothes, she put on a black dress and let her long blond hair down, comes it as best as possible and made sure she didn't have any dirt on her by using a bucket of water to see her reflection.
Immediately she ran towards the main room and found her father sitting at the counter looking at the magician, as the man drank his wine. On the table in front of him was a plate filled with cream of potatoes and besides it was a hard bread which the man dipped into the cream to soften it up.
Yet she wasn't able to look at the magician for long as the door swung open and several men walked in, they each carried axes-swords-hields some of the men wore armor while others barely wore anything at all.
"Rico your here!" One of the men said as he slammed his hand onto the magicians back, the man's muscled hand nearly covered all of the magicians back, yet as hard as the sound made the impact seem the magician didn't seem to great to it at all.
"Barb I'm eating'" Rico said before slamming his hand onto the muscular man's back and the two sharing a look that seemed to challenge the other, despite the two having large grins on their faces.
"So found anything good?" Rico asked the man, before tearing a piece of hard bread and dipping it in the cream of potato.
"Nope, just a bunch of rocks and a couple of monsters here and there." The Barbarian answered Rico, before calling to her to bring his usual.
She quickly filled a flask with wine and several cups with Ale, the man used the wine while he worked but the ale was just for him to drink. Soon men and women began to walk in and each of them either talked about what they had seen, where they were going, or what plants needed to be harvested.
Those with instruments played and the night began to fill itself with joy, as the night went on her wolves followed her as she ran to the tables taking their food and drinks, each time she was about to fall they would push her to make sure she didn't spill anything or actually fall.
Some people went upstarts to get some sleep, while others took a bath, those that paid extra preferred hot water for their bath.
All of a sudden a woman shouted. "I'll show everyone how great I am!" Her voice was filled with anger as she slammed her wooden coup on the table nearly breaking them booth.
She hard her wolves begin to grow and prepare themselves to attack, both animals forced their bodies in front of her and it was at times like these that her beats size easily made her seem tiny in comparison.
"Alright I accept your challenge. But because you challenged I'll choose the match." Rico said, to the woman.
"Fine by me." Answered the blond woman with red eyes and savage smile.
Rico walked up to her and with a smile on his face as he stood in front of her he said. "We will drink until one of us can't stay awake anymore."