#theblackmagi

Kouen is a man of structure, of carefully laid out plans and perfectly scheduled meetings. Each second, each minute, each hour - all written down and measured against his ever-expanding grand scheme. Not a moment wasted; everything geared towards maximum efficiency.

But there are exceptions to Kouen's hard-set rule of structure. Rather, there are beings who choose to ignore his strict preferences. Beings who would often walk into the middle of his war council, demanding peaches. Or sometimes even saunter into his office in the middle of the day just to doodle on some important documents.

To say that Judal was a handful is a severe understatement. But the young man wasn't any common urchin and Kouen knew full well how important he was in his grand scheme.

And despite his childish ways, Judal had a knack for gathering information - little dark secrets that people try to hide but the magi loved to exploit... and share with one imperial prince.

"Why not?"

"Because you're you.."

Slowly, a tanned hand reached out to pull back the curtain of his carriage, peering outside to look at the bustling streets of the Kou Empire. Some of them stopped to look briefly in wonder, more than likely curious as to who was riding in the elaborate carriage, normally reserved for only the royals of the empire. A sigh escaped the mans lips as his released his hold on the red curtain, allowing it fall back into place as he leaned back against his seat. He was currently in quite the fix, after all, and he had been stressing himself over from thinking of the current problem.

How was it that Sinbad constantly found himself in the Kou Empire as of late? Given, of course, they were having political issues, thanks to the empress, but invitations this frequent were practically unheard of! Something had to be up.. someone was pulling the strings for this. That being said, all he could do at this point is to follow through and act as if he didn't suspect a thing. At least, not until he knew for sure what was going on..

Pain.

That was all that she was feeling right now, a searing hot pain in her back. Probably a broken wing or something. Her eyes slowly cracked open to look at the blue sky, although it was different from her own. The buildings were different as well, from what she could see through the first few moments of lying there on the ground.

The possibility of thinking and figuring out what was going on was all but lost as she was surrounded by blades and spears being pointed at her by guards.

"Uhm.... hello?" She blinked at them before slowly sitting up with much effort and pain needed in order to preform such an action. She looked down at the ground and figured out why everyone was freaked out. Ah. She fell from the sky. She fell and caused the stone walkways to crack. Even then, she probably was blacked out during the entire fall, as she had no recollection of it.

She heard the sounds of approaching footsteps coming towards the group before she just smiled and looked directly at the newcomer.