By order of the Guild.

"I've been fortunate enough to meet some of them during my time in the Guild, and I think they are incredibly fascinating - and have universally all been good people. Honestly? I do not even find them especially unusual. After all it is not as if the concept of bonding with Monsters is new - both Popo and Aptonoth are used by communities and villages all over the known world. And then you have creatures such as Canynes or the Seikret that work with Hunters."

He remembers Alma saying that the Hunter was like him; they were both familiar with loss, perhaps even still coming to grips with it. While he'd always wondered what that meant, at one time, Nata had been too afraid to ask.

. . . That wouldn't change today, but it wasn't because he was scared. It was because he was sympathetic; this was a joyful time, and he did not want the Hunter to recall such horrible memories during it. The apprentice's chest swells with pride at the praise, eyes shimmering brightly.

And on that day, he will tell him almost everything. Almost, because there are some things that he is sworn to secrecy over. Some hunts that will remain firmly within his own mind and nowhere else; not even truly noted down in reports beyond the most vague of terms. Perhaps that was for the betterment of all; such things - were they to become common knowledge - would spark a level of fear he was not sure the world was ready for.

The Kingdom of Schrade had burned over a thousand years ago and yet most saw it as a mere fairytale that had grown far out of control.

Perhaps that was for the best.

"I thought so. I made a point to pick up an assignment or two here just in case you wanted to. Gives us a reason to hang around." Francis replied with another warm smile as he snapped out of his thoughts and rubbed the back of his head. "I admit, I could stand to come visit more often."

He glances out of the overhang of the tent for a long moment and over the rocky terrain. It wasn't unbearably warm right now, thankfully.

"I've been fortunate enough to meet some of them during my time in the Guild, and I think they are incredibly fascinating - and have universally all been good people. Honestly? I do not even find them especially unusual. After all it is not as if the concept of bonding with Monsters is new - both Popo and Aptonoth are used by communities and villages all over the known world. And then you have creatures such as Canynes or the Seikret that work with Hunters."

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