my name is dusty and im a dumbass, its kinda self explanitory

The Courier cleared their throat, gaining the attention of the other three. "Now that we're all the best of friends how about we finally tell each other our names." they smiled and waited for any response from the other three.

After a few seconds of awkward silence, the cleric attempted to speak but was immediately cut off by Courier, "Well, since none of you are going to, I guess I will. She's Fern, the kid is Dune, and I don't really care to know your name cleric." They said, waving their hand at the cleric, dismissing him.

"It's Lux" he grumbled kicking at the ground.

Fern squinted her eyes at the Courier, "Well what about you?"

"Hmm?" they cocked their head.

"What's you name?" Fern asked.

"Oh, have I not told you, funny… I could have sworn I did…" they furrowed their brow briefly, before quickly continuing. "I am the Courier, bounty hunter by trade, and no i don't have a gender," The cleric flinched at the mention of bounty hunter, Courier would have to keep that in mind.

"So you are apart of Time's Order then!," The cleric exclaimed, "That's where you got the seal didn't you! Oh, and your a bounty hunter too, ugh, no wonder your like that." He said rolling his eyes.

Courier winced. They supposed that blowing up a church and saying they didn't have a gender did make it quite obvious…

"Time's order?" Fern began, "I thought they disbanded years ago."

"I thought so too, especially after the inquisition," the cleric said, he frowned and looked to Courier for some explanation.

They sighed, "There are a few of us left, but that's none of your business, Owl."

"Uh…" Dune furrowed her brow, "Sorry if I'm missin' somethin', but what's Time's Order?"

"Terrorist organization," the cleric said.

"Death Cult," Fern said.

"Both."

The Fern and Lux looked at Courier, dumbfounded.

"I mean both, in a way, we're an organization that celebrates Time Almighty, Death Incarnate," Courier bowed their head in reverence, "and we oppose the clergy sure, but I wouldn't call us terrorists."

The cleric looked at The Courier, "You blew up a church."

Courier opened their mouth to speak, then closed it again, then opened it once more, "To be fair, I didn't do that for political or religious reasons." "I did it because I though it'd be funny…" Courier thought.

Dune looked confused and Lux and Fern unsure. The Courier shrugged.

"Either way," They smiled, "Its a pleasure to meet you all."

"Can't say the same…" Lux muttered.

"What was that cleric?" Courier turned to the man, his face, only inches away from their own. It was then that the Courier finally got a good look the man.

"You." Courier spat. How could he… No, it couldn't be him…

Lux laughed nervously, "Me?"

The Courier ground their teeth, he was familiar, why was he familiar.

They grabbed the clerics face. He struggled to get away from their grasp but failed miserably.

"The hell are you doing???" Dune exclaimed, but The Courier wasn't listening.

"What did you say your name was…?" The Courier said, eyes wide and gripped the clerics face a bit harder.

"L-Lux, Lux Everbough, p-please let go of me!" he stuttered.

Everbough… no… that wasn't his name, that's unfortunate? That's not the right word, but the courier couldn't be bothered to find the right one.

They threw Everbough to the ground and noticed that Fern had her sword unsheathed, did she really think that they would hurt him? In hindsight, Courier supposed that they may have acted more threatening then they intended…

Fern put her sword away and looked at the Courier, "What's wrong with you?" she asked staring intently them.

The Courier shook out their hair and dusted off their overcoat before responding. "A lot of things, but I don't really know what that has to do with anything at this moment." They smiled.

Fern continued to stare at Courier but they payed her no mind. Out of the corner of their eye, The Courier noticed that Dune was checking up on Everbough, they rolled their eyes.

Fern looked over to The Courier and gave them a dirty look, Courier threw their hands up in response. They thought they heard her mutter something like, "Maybe its not the cleric i could be worried about," but they couldn't be sure.

Dune tried to help Everbough up, but he stood up himself and refused Dune's further aid, "I'm fine I swear I'm-" but before he could finish, the four of them heard footsteps approaching.

Courier looked around rapidly and noticed a large enough snowbank on the side of the road. "Get down!" Courier hissed, pushing the over to the snowbank to hide. They started to run further down the path but Fern grabbed their shoulder.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked in a voice far louder then Courier would have liked.

"I'm going to try to lead them off, make some new foot prints in the snow so they won't notice yours, so let go!" Courier ripped their arm from Fern's grasp and ran as fast as they could down the road.

Courier could hear the three of them pile under the snow, as well as the voices and feet of at least fifteen clerics. "They're on the hunt," Courier thought.

They ran down the path until they found a fork in the road. It was almost nightfall, and one of the paths led down the forest. As much as Courier wanted to avoid what they knew was lurking in there at all costs, they knew if worse came to worse, it would be easier to loose the clergy in there then out in the tundra.

So they ran down the tundra path, where their footsteps would be blown away by the wind, and so they should take the other three down the forest path later.

The Courier jogged a bit further before making a big loop back to the other four. A shiver ran through Courier's body, they wished that they had been able to get at least one or two more layers of clothing in town, as their top two outermost layers were torn to shreds.

They made it back to the other three, making sure to avoid the flock of clerics at all costs.

"You're back." Dune said.

The Courier nodded, "Yep, I was able to lead them away a bit further down to road, but if we want to avoid them completely we're gonna have to go down the forest path. Were you three alright?"

"Yes, they didn't find us." Lux said.

Courier side eyed the cleric, "…good…"

"Well we should better get moving, it's getting dark and I'd really rather not get eaten or be captured, so… shall we?" they gestured down the path and the other three looked at each other concernedly, before agreeing. Courier had a sinking suspicion that they may have had a conversation while they were gone.