The morning had long since pasted and the group decided that the desert near the ruins was a good place to stay. None of them wished to talk with the ent again. Jake was resting atop the bridge watching Wolf and John spar while Glaze and Frey tinkered with the glass wood they had aboard that Trevenant let them keep which wasn’t much but allowed them to play around with it as long as they weren’t reckless with the amount. They actually managed to make some interesting items such as a few pots, a sword and a staff which Wolf was currently using.

Lilly was inside the bridge looking through the various scanners and cameras before she runs out of the bridge clearly in distress.

“It’s back.” She shouted before standing at the door, was the figure in mist who started all this. Wolf and John immediately go in a defensive stance, Glaze charges a spell and Frey grabs the glass wood sword and Jake dives straight at the mist covered figure.

Before Jake’s fist meets the entities head, there is suddenly nothing there and he crashes into the floor stunning him for a bit.

A female voice calls out from above where Jake was lounging moments ago. “I am not here to fight you.”

“Well take us home you bastard!” John yells and looks ready to attack. “You brought us here, you can take us back!”

“I am unable to return you all to your place of origins, but I want to talk.” At that, the mist explouds out from the entity and as the veil clears, standing upon the ship, is a woman with large silver wings, white eyes and black hair with cat ears and tail. All along her body is silver lines and white specks. “My name is..”

Jake darts up to catch her and before colliding, he is frozen mid air which makes him suddenly very worried. With no momentum, he just plummets into the Valkyrie before standing, clearly winded.

“AS I WAS SAYING JACKASS!” she shouted starring daggers at Jake, “My name is Valory, just call me V, and I ..”

Lilly finishes her sentence with wide eyes. “You’re an ancient.”

“Preciously Discovery. I am what your era call an ancient. And your currently on my ship, which use to be for my merchant business. It is quite nice that you managed to make it operational, but I guess she always was a hardy son of a bitch. Now then, with my introduction out of the way, what is your first question?” She says bowing. John seeing this opportunity, pegs the staff straight as a bullet into her and she, with her head down, grabs the staff with her pinkie finger, and stares straight at John and states in an impatient tone. “The next fucken tagged to attempt to hit me unless allowed is being thrown of the ship. And if you wanna try fly away, just remember what happened to him.” Pointing at Jake. With everyone quiet and looking defeated, she moves on.

“Good, now then, who is asking what first.” She says standing straight in a passive voice.

The first question comes from Wolf. “Who am I?”

“I cant tell you that one. That is for you to figure out on your own when the time comes.”

Frey calls out next. “Why are we here, wherever here is.”

“Your purpose is to complete the Citadel and as for where you are, this location is called the dome. This place was created to experiment with terraforming systems which proved to be a bit, ah, lets go with finiky.”

“What was the name and purpose of the ruins” Is the question Lilly called out.

“That was the city of Arcadia, it was orginaly housing for the terraforming teams but due to the unique materials produced such as stone glass, it turned into quite the city. Towards the end, it was our race’s last bastion but it fell.”

Glaze shouted his next. “What types of magic can you do or teach me?”

“Of course you would ask Magic. I am able to perform any type of spell I have ever seen, read about or been taught. And what I can teach you will depend on your alignment.”

Jake was the last of the group to ask a question. “What do our marks mean and do. Also, we met this giant spectre ent named Trevenant who told us to tel..”

“I already know what he said, I was there and as for your question, I will tell everyone what theirs mean excluding you.”

This clearly pissed off Jake and just before he took another shot, he restrained himself to yelling. “Why the fuck wont you tell me mine!? I asked to bloody question.”

“Because, yours has a unique name and seeing as you tried twice to punch me, I figure this is karma.”

“Well fuck you to.” Jake responded clearly ticked off.

“As for the rest of you. The only one you managed to get correct was the glass ball being magic. The rest excluding him,” pointing to Jake, “were close. Of course, there is discovery” looking at Lilly, “but there is also artesian” pointing to Frey, “direction”, she said throwing the staff back to John, “and finally, knight” looking at Wolf. “You guys worked out the fact that all excluding the Igneous, the tag referred to their past in some manner but for him, its his future that the tag represents.”

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The rest of the day progressed as the group asked V about various things which if they were about actual things they had experienced or know, she would answer It fine but when it came to the more obscure things they hadn’t experienced, she simply passed it off, ignored it or redirected the conversation.

By the time it was sun down, the group started to get a picture of their purpose and where they were in the world with the only particular annoyed person being Jake as throughout the whole thing, V called everyone else by their tag but every time he was referred to, it would never be anything that sounded like it could be his tag.

As night fell, V announced that she would join the group and train them. For what purpose she never said but the location they were suppose to go to next would be the mountains.

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These people are so ignorant but I guess that’s my fault. V thought to herself once she said no more questions to be asked. At least now that ent would have a bounty on my head. Looking towards the mountain range, she thought to herself, Wonder Greg will think when we stroll into his lair. It’s gonna piss him off but it will so be so good to bash in a dragon skull.