#considerate-sidekick

“For me?” Sodia knelt down to open the bag, light catching on the dragon scale. Gingerly picking it up, she admired how intact it was and the way the light shined through the translucent material. Some noble ladies would ask for flowers or expensive jewelry, but this suited Sodia just fine. “Thank you very much, Repede. It’s beautiful.”

“You didn’t have to come over here you know, shouldn’t you be watching Yuri?”

Pressed firmly against the side of the boat with knees tucked to her chest the young mage gave her new companion a look. She was sure Repede could pick up on the feelings weighing on her chest, confused, upset…. It circulated like a small storm and it was admittedly the reason she was up right now in the earlier hours of the morning.

The stars were still out, hazily drifting by as Ba’ul drifted like he weighed no more of a feather. Did he sleep? Did he need to? It didn’t really matter though. She had more important things to worry about, like the fate of her friends and Estelle…

The trip to meet Pharaoh had scared her deep down, even with the princess’s determination and their quest… She was still scared for what would happen at the end, the negatives and the results of it all… She supposed that’s why Repede had come to find her now. He was always good at sensing the discomfort in others.

Rita pulls into herself further, letting go of her knee with one hand to reach out absently towards her companion. It was a request, a sign for further comfort she quietly hoped the other would accept.

It hadn’t been long since he left the knights. He hadn’t been long since he quit on the standing grounds that they were a nothing more than tin dolls being used by a soulless country in order to bleed their people dry. 

‘Protect and serve’ 

What a joke. The Empire wanted no such thing for their people. That’s why he was still living in this trash dump of the capital known as ‘The Lower Quarter’.  The Empire giving a damn? Well that was only good for a laugh. 

He’d always lived here; here in the lower quarter of the capital but yet somehow it seemed different. Different with the way the people held themselves. Different with the way the people talked. Different with the way that they all... survived. 

He never understood it before. He was too young before.  All he cared about when he was a child was where his next meal was going to come from but now - now he could see it in their eyes. He could see the struggles, he could see the depression.  The Empire had left them broken and he would be lying if he didn’t say it pissed him off. 

It was time to work. Time to roll out of the single bed he’d been provided by the Inn keep that lived just below him. Couldn’t have him livin’ on the streets, she said. Couldn’t have him going without a place to get out of the rain when she could give him a roof over his head. She’d insisted and he couldn’t refuse. He had another life to look after now; a small pup that had stayed with him even after he left the Imperial Knights behind. 

And how he grew. It’d only been a year and the beast had gone from a droplet of fur to a full grown wolf. It was, it was hard to look at him sometimes - as he’d find himself remembering Lambert and that fateful night. He - he owed it to him to stay by his side. 

A quick jog down the stairs that lead to his home, up the ramp that lead past the plaza and they were quickly pulled to the side by one of the women by the fountain. 

“Yuri! Yuri dear. Can you and Repede go fetch some watch from the river? We need to work on washing clothing for the week and it would be lovely if you could bring some back for us.” She smiled, to which he only slumped his shoulders for a moment and sigh. 

  How about Repede in palette 2?

If it’s too much trouble, then it’s alright. Not many people are good with animals.

Fallen from battle and weak-willed. She was hardly in any state to run off to safety. Who did she think she was? Trying to take a rather large monster by herself when it had caught her by surprise? Was it to protect him? Whatever the reason, it didn’t matter. Despite her being a complete stranger, Repede couldn’t leave her alone to be this monster’s dinner, even if she wished for him to leave. No, he charged right in, dagger between his teeth as he ran at lightning speed towards the giant crab-like monster.

Repede jumps, spiraling right into one of it’s pincers, the monster screeching as he keeps this up in repetition. It tries to crush him between it’s claws, but with Repede’s incredible speed, he manages to avoid it’s vice-grip. He keeps up his attack until one of it’s claws falls straight off, causing the monster to cry in pain. Thrashing about, and snapping it’s remaining claw wildly.

His plan was not to defeat it, but to beat at it until he scares it off or if it has had enough of his beating. The monster is enraged. It’s attacks more violent. Repede does not come out unscathed this time. He gains a few cuts and bruises as he runs around the monster’s legs, slashing at them to try and pry them off, or slow it down so it wouldn’t be able to move as quickly.

With his speed and quick slices, the crab-like monster has had enough and starts making it’s way to leave them alone. Repede lets out some aggressive barks, to make it known that it should never come back to mess with them, but after the monster was on it’s way, Repede rushed back to Tear, checking if she was okay. He probably surprised her with his ability to fight. It’s not everyday you see an animal be able to fight with a weapon.

“Woooo….” She really was not in the best condition, so he pulls out a gel from his dagger’s sheath and offers it to her. Trying his best not to get it too slobbery.