White Knight

⋞ ╰ ⚔ ╮ ≽ To say there were NO people would be a gross misinformation of Fantasia. In fact, there were a great deal of both human and inhuman beings littered around. All one really had to do was be willing enough to look.

Patrol was never… Exciting. It had become second nature to trace treads from the Summit in the desolate North peaks to the shores of the badlands cast away to the Southern borders. There, one says creatures long extinct have been spotted; dinosaurs and other likened species. That, and any other information, remained locked up between eye and mind of the sigil guardian who made her steadfast errands from dawn till dusk. 

Over. And over… … And over…

Luckily, she had company. A foreign-born lad who’d acquired a strange taste for the unknown and vowed fealty at the expense of paying back a life-debt. One, Vivace could assume, would never be paid in full. A price like that is too steep these days what with the darkness of common man running amuck.

“Well if you are so bored,” Figaro was bantering over her shoulder, “Why not talk to the people? The creatures? The flora?” He seemed exasperated. Though, not so much exhausted with all the wanderlust.

The errant knight merely continued on her meticulous way, eyes forward, shoulders pulled, chin reigned high—

“Please don’t act like ‘m not here…” He muttered, quickening stride to match her long, powerful gait. “You do it all the time.”

Finally her expression of stone cracks to permit a smile, “Ever pause to wonder why?”

He stops, raising a hand to offer a retort… And finds himself rendered speechless.

“If you are so keen to interact with the average person,” Vivace continues, leaving him many paces behind. “Ask that man there whereabouts he is from. He is not familiar and looks lost.” 

Figaro adjusted his posture, all but jogging beyond his handler and up to the stranger in their midst as she watches quietly from afar. Blowing his plume-like hair from his face he radiantly smiles and tilts his chin low. Vivace snorts. “Sir,” He’ll never get used to being formal. “Are you heading somewhere? You look a bit…” He peers up, quirking a pale brow. “… Confused? Have you been to Fantasia before?”

Yes, he was used to nature being alive, though they tended to just be monsters he either avoided or fought.  The Blue Planet wasn’t like this one, though; it left him puzzled, and he needed to take a few moments to realize that he was, apparently, close enough to a town for there to be others.

Luna nodded solemnly and dipped a polite bow to the strange swordsman. Indeed; she was clearly far off the map she’d been provided; this area didn’t resemble Cleigne or Leide and thus she currently hadn’t the slightest idea where she was. 

“Indeed I am, sir. Would you happen to know where a traveler might find shelter for the night?”

She didn’t mind sleeping rough if it came down to it; Umbra and Pryna would curl up with her to keep her warm, but it was absolute torture on her already-painful joints.

She did look uncomfortable and rather more lost than someone who was from the area.  With a smile, he bowed to her as well.

“Ahhhhh, so we just find a giant magic, and then no one can beat me… i mean you.” That’s not how magic works at all.

“Oh…” That just confused her more, a warrior and a healer? Those were two very different things where she came from. “So you could…. also give yourself infinite health.”

“Sadly, no.  We are limited by our own reserve of magic.  Something that is... much lower and more precious to us outside of Fantasia.”

“Swords, and magic?” She apparently wasn’t aware you could do both. “What’s white magic? Blinding the enemy with bright lights?”

“You coulda pretended.” She huffed and shook out the wrinkles in her map. The paper she was scribbling on was nearly half her size. 

“But yeah, I ended up here with Stevie. She doesn’t even use weapons, how is she supposed to just travel around like that? So I’m acting as body guard.”

“AH HA! I see I’m already gaining fame in this new world! Yep that’s me, Mika the Great, Awesome, Super Strong and Powerful Warrior, title still pending.”

“I’m not gonna cheat! I gotta make it myself. It’s very important for my battle plans. I need to know the town’s weaknesses and strengths. See em with my own eyes.”

“Your... battle plans?”

“I’m creating a map of the area.”

“It’s appreciated.” He pulled out a piece of paper out of his jacket pocket. “I’m here to pick up some basic supplies like food and stuff, but these are the things my brother asked me to get. Do you have any idea where I could find them?”