A moment after he pressed the button in his inventory to withdraw the sword a long bright yellow glowing shape appeared in the air above him and began to form into a more distinct and outlined shape of a blade. Within a second the sword had materialised and fell down into Andrew's open hand. The hilt of the blade which he held onto was made from a pure white silver, the hand grip was wrapped with deep burgundy leather, the pommel was a perfect circle surrounding a blood red ruby encrusted within the pure silver. The hand guard was an intricate and winding pattern of thick golden strands which formed a sturdy hand guard, allowing space for the user to move their hands. The blade was sheathed in a pure white hardened leather sheath which had an image of an eagle in flight decorated upon it with golden leaf at the top of the sheath.
Andrew stood up from his chair and with a very fast movement of his hand withdrew the blade from its sheath, while still holding the sheath in his left hand. He held the blade up in front of him with the flat of the blade facing towards him. It, like the main section of the hilt, was made from pure silver which looked sharp enough to slice through anything that may get in its way. Running down the middle of the silver blade was a filling of dark burnished gold, this golden section held an inscription upon it which read "Seven times down. Eight times up". After quickly inspecting the blade he swiped the blade with great force causing the air around it to whistle from the sword's precise speed.
"Try not to hit us please." I say after quickly moving backwards from Andrew, trying to avoid getting hit from the unexpected swipe.
Sky looked at the blade carefully and asked curiously. "What is the sword called? As it's obviously either a rare drop, as I doubt anyone here has seen it, or was a one time drop from the troll."
Andrew reopened his inventory and scrolled down to the sword with a few flicks of his finger before saying. "It says its called Ambrose. Weird name for a sword, but it sounds good in my opinion, wonder how strong it is as a rapier though." He said in a contemplative yet content way at his new sword. He then sheathed Ambrose, quickly took off his old blade and strapped the white leather sheath to his rough brown belt. He then placed his sword in his inventory by hitting a button in his inventory which caused it to glow bright yellow and seemingly de-materialise into his inventory.
"Anyway what actually happened with the Blood Knights?" Andrew asked us, but to no-one in particular.
Oliver was the one who answered Andrew's question before any of us could say any thing. "We were falling back to the town when the coffins surrounded us." He began before getting quickly interrupted by Andrew.
"Coffins?" He asked, confused at the name Oliver had used.
"Right yer, the players were all a part of a guild called the Laughing Coffin, probably one of the first player killer guild of that size and skill. Anyway, they surrounded us when we moved into open ground and put us into a last stand sort of fight against the 20 or so of them around us. Not too long after this began a large party of Blood Knights turned up and scared the dammed Coffins back off into the forest and by what their commander had said, these guys had killed a few of the Blood Knights before moving on to us." He finished his explanation.
"So now you basically owe the Blood Knights for pretty much saving you lot out there." Andrew commented, realising instantly why Oliver and Andrew B were both irritated. "I still don't understand why you're so against them." He continued quietly, not really intending for anyone to hear him. However all of us do hear him and I simply roll my eyes.
"You probably wouldn't understand. Anyway I had better be going as I've got a shop to attend to as it's getting close to opening hours. Hope Aurora gets back to normal quickly, cya." He announced to the room before opening the door and departing to get to his shop up on the 48th floor before players turned up expecting to buy things but find an empty building.
"I had better go as well, make sure all is okay with my house and then go help out with Oliver's shop." He said as a farewell before he to left the room.
"Why does he always leave within 20 seconds of Oliver going somewhere, you would have thought they were a couple or something." Sky said with an annoyed shake of her head as me and Andrew laughed at the truth behind the words and the fact that we all knew that nothing past being extremely good friends would pass between Oliver and Andrew B.
"Speaking of couples..." I say slowly looking at Andrew with a smug grin.
Andrew looks at me with an annoyed glance and Sky starts laughing a bit. "What about them?" He asks slowly, but from my silence he quickly realises what I'm talking about and quickly continues. "Whoa, my private life is none of your business and you know damn well what's going on, you were the one who made sure it did happen way back when you met Aurora."
"Yer, Yer. Anyway where's your house Sky, so we know where to find you if we need you for something." I ask Sky out of curiosity and necessity before I to left to attend my forgery.
Sky looks at me, hesitates to think and then says. "I generally just sleep in the inn closest to the front-line, just makes everything easier and quicker for me to get there without having to bother with floor portals."
"Why don't you move in with Steven then, he's got a big enough house considering the fact that he lives alone." Said a quiet voice from the bed before anyone could suggest anything else. All of us looked in surprise at the bed to see Aurora, eyes open, moving into a sitting position with her back against the wooden head rest. Sky, went to hug her and Andrew went back to holding her hand tightly.
However I just look at her and ask. "How long have you been in awake and how do you feel?" suspecting that she had deliberately feigned sleep to listen into our conversation for a while.
"Not long, long enough to hear Andrew B to leave and your conversation afterwards and I feel fine, thank you." She says with a smug, yet slightly innocent looking grin.
"And a great use of my own words I must say." I say quietly with a shake of my head and a smile after realising that she had taken my words from when I suggested that she lived with Andrew.
"So what do you say Sky? Would you be good living in a house with Steven so that you have a stable house and we know that your safe." She continued looking at the still somewhat caught of guard Sky.
She gave me a cautious yet curious glance, while thinking through her options given to her at time before sighing and saying. "Yer, why not then." At this Aurora smiled and Andrew was trying to suppress a laugh.
"Well you know where my house is, so yer." I say as I open up my inventory and send her a key to my house. "As long as you don't move things till I get back, I'll be happy as I've got to get back to my forgery, as like Andrew B and Oliver I have a business to run. So I suppose I'll see you lot later then." I say before opening the door and walking down the hallway to exit the Prancing Pony inn.