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Chapter 4

Female voice:"So we can finally get out of this place?"

Goatee Guy:"Yeah. We don't need this inn anymore."

Female voice:"Will you go pack for me? I want to say goodbye to some friends from around here."

Goatee Guy:"Sure but we won't be leaving today."

Female voice:"I know. It'll just be easier to leave if we get everything done first."

Goatee Guy:"You're right. I hate doing things at the last minute. I'll pack while you say your goodbyes."

Female voice:"I'll take your bag for you."

The goatee guy noticeably flinched.

Goatee Guy:"No I've got it."

Female voice:"I'll just put it up for you before I leave."

Goatee Guy:"No need. Go say goodbye to your friends."

The girl showed goatee guy a smile I knew was fake.

Female voice:".....Sure."

She left the inn and I could hear her grumbling under her breath.

Goatee Guy:"You just gonna stand there all day."

I realized he was talking to me.

Becket:"No. I was just leaving."

I left while he gave me a glare full of suspicion. I decided to gather information while I was out. The first thing I learned was the name of this town which is Freyedge. This is the capitol of the human continent called Druusell. The human king and his family live in a palace here. I had to keep an eye out since the knights were out patrolling. I was told the king issued orders to capture a sexual deviant that attacked the princess.

I was a little worried since the person talking to me told me the knights were giving out my description and asking for sightings.

Man:"Well you don't have to worry about that sexual deviant. He'll be caught soon."

He put his hand on my shoulder.

Man:"If he does show up I'll protect you Miss."

This time I was actually relieved to be mistaken as a girl since the description said male.

Becket:"Thanks."

I said as I pushed his hand off my shoulder. I collected more money from the people I passed by who so generously donated to me without even knowing. If I continued to use the same spot the knights will probably be informed of a pickpocket so I'll need to either change locations or find a new source of income.

I would need more information about this world if I wanted to survive so I bought a world map. I wasn't allowed to look at it until I paid so I wasn't sure what I was getting. It showed seven continents, but one of them had no details at all. The other continents showed trails, mountains and streams, but that one continent was colored black with nothing else on it. I wanted to get out of this city as soon as possible, but I didn't know where to go. I had to buy another map that was focused on this continent. It showed more detail about this continent. I found what appeared to be many major cities and small villages. I decided to stop there for now and tour the city. I placed both maps into my satchel and went for a walk.

I didn't get to close, but I was able to see the palace. It had many tall towers with a giant defensive wall surrounding it and was made entirely of stone. There were flags with the same symbol on it. It was a purple flag with a triangle in the center. Each tip of the triangle had a different symbol inside of a circle. There was one more symbol in the center of the triangle.

(The symbol in the middle.)

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I was quite far away, but I could still make out each of the symbols.

The next thing I found were these three buildings that were very extravagantly made. They were made of pure white stone and had mosaic glass for the windows. They were very close to each other and looked very similar so I assumed they had a connection. A flag with a single symbol was hanging above each door to the three buildings. These three flags were the only difference between the buildings. Each flag was white with a symbol in the middle of it. I noticed these were the same three symbols on the flag at the palace.

(First symbol)

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(Second symbol)

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(Third symbol)

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Becket:"They remind me of churches."

I wanted to go inside, but I decided against it for today. I was ecstatic when I finally found the market, but it didn't have a large variety of food and spices. It was probably because I'm in a poor part of the city. I bought what looked good and got a few seeds to use as experiments. I spent a lot of time out so I decided to return to the inn.

When I entered I noticed there was no one manning the front desk. I walked towards the stairs, but stopped when the color red caught my eye. I saw a drop of blood on the counter. If it wasn't for my enhanced vision I wouldn't of seen it. My satchel was filled with the things I bought and felt a little uncomfortable so I took it off. Aria popped her head out of it.

Aria:"Are we back?"

Becket:"Ssshhhhh!"

I placed my finger on my lips. I didn't want anyone to hear us if they were still here.

Aria:"This isn't our room?"

Becket:"Quiet please."

Aria:"Why?"

Becket:"I'll explain in a minute just be quiet."

Aria:"Fine but if you don't keep this promise I'll make your ass regret it. I'm still waiting on those clothes you said you'd make."

She finally shut up so I made my way over to the blood drop and when I leaned over the counter there was more blood. It led to the door behind the counter that was currently closed.

I stepped behind the counter and cracked the door open. Inside was a hallway with no one in it so I opened the door wide. The blood drops made a trail down the hallway and led to another door. I stealthily glided to the door and pressed my ear against it.

Female voice:"Just tell us where you put the money and we'll leave."

Male voice:"Lets just kill him. We don't need the money as long as we're together."

Female voice:"Shut up! I'm not leaving here poor! I'm sick of this life style! Give me the money!"

I heard a thump which sounded like someone falling to the ground. I cracked the door open and saw two people standing with their backs facing me and goatee guy on the floor with his hands tied behind his back. He looked badly beaten and had cuts all over him. The male that was standing had a small dagger in his right hand with blood on it. I saw this as a chance to get a contact in this new world. If I save him he might be able to help me and if he's just a problem I could always kill him. I also didn't want to move to a new inn since this one was the best of the worst.

I pulled the door open and ran in. I wanted to test out my body a little so I tried a dive kick into the girl and used her as a spring board to launch myself towards the man. The woman slammed into the wall causing her to black out immediately. My head went straight into the mans stomach sending him falling back into the hallway. I wouldn't have been able to do that in my previous world, but I decided that much effort wasn't necessary just to take out these two so I probably wouldn't attack like that again.

The man threw up on himself after landing in the hallway. He tried to stand with shaky legs, but slipped in his own vomit and landed right back where he was. I turned my attention to the goatee guy and he had a look of relief on his face.

Becket:"You ok goatee guy?"

Goatee Guy:"Goatee guy? Is that suppose to be me?"

Becket:"Sorry. I didn't know what else to call you."

I cut his ropes and helped him sit up.

Goatee Guy:"You know how to heal?"

Becket:"Sorry I don't."

I remembered that Aria told me only elves can use healing spells.

*So he noticed I was an elf.*

I had hoped the hood was able to hide my ears, but I guess it didn't work.

Becket:"Is there anywhere I can take you to get healed?"

Goatee Guy:"Of course not. The only healers in the city either cost to much or work for the royal family. I'll just have to get something to drink to ease the pain."

Becket:"What should we do about them?"

I motioned with my head towards the girl then the man in the hallway who either gave up or passed out.

Goatee Guy:"Tie 'em up for me."

Becket:"Sure."

I pulled the vomit guy into the room and set him next to the girl then used rope that was in the room to tie them up.

Goatee Guy:"I'll have to do something about them."

Becket:"Isn't there someone you can turn them in to for attacking you?"

Goatee Guy:"The knights aren't going to care. She didn't kill me so they'll just tell me to stop fighting with my wife. I hate this fucking city and the people in it. I should have known that fucking bitch was gonna do this."

I wasn't sure what to do so I placed my hand on his back and began to pat.

Becket:"There there. Everything's gonna be alright."

Goatee Guy:"Why are you patting my back?"

Becket:"To......comfort you?"

Goatee Guy:"Hahahahahah! *cough* *cough*"

A little but of blood came out of his mouth which he wiped away.

Goatee Guy:"You're a funny little girl!"

I sighed and with a dejected look I said....

Becket:"I guess I am."

*Pretending to be a girl is better.....for now.*

I had some prior knowledge regarding plants that I could use on this mans injuries, but I couldn't find any that I needed while I was at the market. I wanted to be prepared in case I get hurt since even a small cut can kill you. This world seemed to resemble the medieval times of my world which is famous for it's uncleanliness so an infection was a real concern.

Becket:"Do you have any medicinal herbs here?"

Goatee Guy:"What're those?"

Becket:"I want to know if you have any plants that help prevent infection."

Goatee Guy:"What's an infection?"

*Either this world doesn't know anything about medicinal plants or this guy doesn't know.*

It wasn't hard to believe that the medical field was behind since they had magic here. The people probably never thought that there could be other ways to heal a person. The mercenary group I was apart of had a guy that use to be a doctor and always carried different herbs and poisons around with him. He taught me a lot about plants and poisons including how they affected the human body. I use to spar with him for hours all the time since he really enjoyed knives too. I lost more times then I won since he always covered his blade in something that caused paralysis.

I was told he made it himself, but the main ingredient was tetrodotoxin. At first I had no idea what that was then he told me it was the toxin from a pufferfish which pissed me off. If there had been to much of that toxin on the blade I could have died. He told me that he would never make that mistake, but I had to lock myself in my personal quarters to knit a whole new sweater before I could calm down. My team members would get me so angry sometimes that if I didn't have knitting to calm myself than I would have attacked someone. I swore I would get him back so I had him teach me everything about different herbs and toxins.

Since I had no medicinal herbs I could only clean and wrap his wounds.

Goatee Guy:"You sure are handy. I wish I would of married a girl like you!"

*If I don't get some yarn and a sewing needle soon I might end up killing this guy.*

He was starting to really piss me off so I pulled tightly on his wraps.

Goatee Guy:"Aaahhh! That hurt! Be a little gentler!"

Becket:"Sure thing goatee guy."

Goatee Guy:"What's wrong with me. You saved my life and I still haven't introduced myself. I'm Gene."

Becket:"Nice to meet you Gene. I'm Becket."

Gene:"Becket huh. Doesn't suit you. How about Sara."

I pulled even tighter on his wraps.

Gene:"Aaaaaaahhhhhhh! Fuck! I get it! I'll call you Becket!"

I released my hold on the wraps and backed away.

Becket:"Well I'm done treating your wounds."

Gene:"Why'd you wrap me up in this?"

Becket:"It'll help trust me."

Gene:"Whatever. At least with em covered up the air can't make my cuts sting."

Becket:"Ok so what do we do now. Those two will wake up eventually."

Gene:"I'm not sure. She may be a bitch, but she's still my wife. I wouldn't feel right if anything bad happened to her."

Becket:"Even after she did this to you."

I pointed at all the injuries on him.

Gene:"That's just how I feel. I've always loved her, but I've known our relationship was over for a while. I thought that if I made a lot of money and took her away from here things might get better. For now lets just deal with her when she wakes up. I'm fine with killing the guy though."