#licensedtokiel

licensedtokiel​

With the day off of work, Clorica decided to spend the time visiting her friends around Selphia.  Though she already attempted to catch up with Illuminata, the girl seemed far too busy with whatever mystery she wanted to solve that day.  So instead she searched for Forte, hoping that she would be home and not too busy with her own job.

     “Kiel!” Hardly sparing a moment for formalities, Xiao Pai grabs the younger boy’s hand and begins to tug.

Gale didn't travel too often anymore. 

He was suffering from acute old-man-itis, and would probably think about how those little children wouldn't stop peeking in his windows instead of thinking about taking a break from not sleeping and studying to the point of caffeine-fueled migraines.

But he'd thought about getting away to where no one knew him, and it had appealed greatly to him after the amount of overstimulation and interaction he'd been experiencing on Castanet. 

So, he'd decided to travel to Selphia...It seemed to be a land where magic was more widely accepted, so he figured he wouldn't need to be overly cautious about concealing his powers. 

Kiel turned over the book in his hands, brightening up considerably as he flipped through the pages. Based off of the few choice words he managed to catch in his quick scanning, there were definitely some strange things to be gathered through reading this. “Gosh Frey, thank you so much!” Kiel beamed at her before blinking in realization. “Oh, right! Hang on a second,” he said quickly before dashing off, the book under his arm.

It only took a few seconds before he returned with a small box made of thin cardboard. The sweet smell of apple pie wafted around them. “Just made it today. Merry Christmas!”

Kiel's excitement being very much contagious, Frey found herself laughing gleefully as she watched him flip through the pages of her book. 

"The part about the 'kasa-obake' is especially interesting to me. An umbrella that jumps around with a leg and an eye... Who even comes up with these things?" She shakes her head, chuckling. "Oh, but you're welcome, Kiel. It's the least I could do on Christmas.~"

Taking a step back, however, Frey watches in surprise as Kiel dashes off, only to come back with a sweet-smelling present of his own. She gingerly takes the box from Kiel's hands, and in an uncharacteristic fit of impatience, lifts the cover to reveal a large apple pie.

Now it's her turn to beam.

"Wow...! My favourite... thank you so much!" She exclaims, quickly closing the lid of the box to avoid temptation. (Temptation being eating the pie right here and now, because if she escaped right now she might just be able to eat it in private, save herself from the embarrassment of pigging out in front of her friend.)

Then, Frey laughs nervously, pushing her bangs out of her eyes. "Mm... But I think I better get going!" She walks slowly backwards, or at least as slowly as she possibly could. "Thank you again! I'll see you later, okay? Merry Christmas!"

Selphia was an incredibly strange place. There was a distortion in the climates, it seemed. One moment, it was as hot as a summer's day, and then it was as mild as spring. In the town itself, snow covered everything. Never before, in her travels had she seen a land so unstable. 

Many things weighed upon Jamie's mind, in the recent months.  She needed time alone. Jamie left more than enough fodder in her farm to care for her animals, for when she would return. Calvervtutrp was all the security one would need as well. When she would return, she would clean up the barn and shovel the snow away. For now, though, she needed this.

She only hoped she would not run into the rich brat and her two butlers, here. She recalled them being from here, according to the contestant records from the last time they met. She made her way towards the north-eastern edge of town, where there was an observatory. Selphia was already built upon a cliffside--ideal for viewing the surrounding land. The tower only served to increase her scope of vision, rather literally with the telescopes. 

She slowly approached one as the snow gently fell around her, leaning in to take a look through it. She was not aware others were around her, or really cared about how out of place she appeared.

       It had been at least a month since she had first met Will. The knight had stepped outside of the town gates for a quick stroll when a little Pomme-Pomme rolled up to her. He was a rather young looking one and posed no threat to her, instead seeming to have been interested in the knight. In a matter of minutes, she and the Pomme-Pomme were getting along-- perhaps a bit too well. After Forte had to tell the Pomme-Pomme to go back with its group, she had expected to not see him again after that.

       Within that time span of a month, she had to have seen him at least 12 more times.

       Realizing that the little apple creature wasn't going to stop coming back to see her while out on her patrols, Forte decided to cave in and take him in, nicknaming him 'Will' in the process. Plus Will had really grown on her, so she didn't have any issues against this at all herself. It had been a week since she took him in to live in her home, and it seemed like Will was getting used to his surroundings quickly.

       Emphasis on seemed.

       Having had a long day, Forte marched back towards her home, ready for a small break before heading back out for her last nightly patrol around town. Her armor clanking along with her every step, she reached for the door knob to her front door and let her shoulders hang a bit. "Kiel, I'm home--"

       One blink. Two blinks. A sudden joyful squeal from at her feet.

       Looking down, Forte saw Will beaming up at her, obviously happy to see her back home. However, she didn't keep her gaze down at him for long, instead going back to focus on the mess now in the room. The two chairs in the kitchen across the room were knocked over, the table moved out of place, papers that used to be on the small desks were scattered all over the floor, with some of the desks tipped over and on the ground. Stepping inside and closing the door behind her, she bit her bottom lip, upset at the sight, and upset Kiel wasn't to be found in the room.