My Band of Idiots

Felicity's Growing Business

When we got to Nico's house we knocked on the door and it opened, he ushered us in quietly. His house was nice... it was one room, very minimalistic. He had a bed and a fireplace where a kettle was going. And a table where there was one chair. The house or hut looked big enough to house more furniture then this but I got the idea that this guy didn't really like to hold onto a lot of stuff. 
Nico looked over his sister inspecting her and holding her at an arms langth before they hugged briefly.
"Can I get anyone tea?" Nico asked and we all shook our head no  "How was the journey? Have any trouble?" His eyes shot to Ramock imediatly out of the corner of his eyes.
"We're discrete, we were discrete weren't we?"
Nico let out a long sigh and closed his eyes then Therease let out a throaty chuckle.
"He's got your goat big brother, loosen up, it was fine, no one is fallowing me, and I don't think in this town that I am very noticeable, I look a lot like a tiefling, you are the noticeable one here." she said looking at him and then looking at Ramock and I and said "all of you are noticeable in this town."
"I suppose we are, what people can't come for sun an relaxation?"
"Is that what your here for?" Therease said with a raised eye brow.
I shrugged "I'm here for a lot of things." I smiled at her and she laughed again, then her face fell into a serious look before she looked at her brother.
"How much can I say?" She asked
"How ever much you like, there mostly incompetent but helpful." I for one was a little offended but did not let on.
As for Ramock was cleaning his ear with his pinky his tongue sticking into the air and then looked up sharply and said "what?" Well I didn't know if he was playing dumb yet or not.
Therease nodded and started on her story: "Gretona is at war, The witches coven took over the land there 27 years ago when the Mage were at war with the shade and the Witches split off from the Mage hoping to create a new life. They landed on Gretona and found the people there scattered and like most colonizers they decided that they were right in what they did because it was for a better world or so they said. So they distorted what the fay people had, and there was war and it was awful, but it was a silent war of genocide and silence and children stollen in the night.
Then suddenly it was just a way of life. There were schools where the fay went and there were schools where the witches went and very rarely did the two mix. It is very hard to gain magical status in Gretona without blood being passed or lineage or title.
So unless a fay and a mage have a child together it very rarely happens that they become anyone of importance or note.
Our mother ran away from that life about 25 years ago. She was little more then a grown girl herself. 17 and pregnant with Nico and married to his father with what the Witches called a Fire Demon or what I would more characterize as a Fire Spirit leaning her power. This caused problems in the coven and our family was able to hide and grow, until his father left and left us weak, we had to do what we had to do, so we helped the fay people and they helped us.
Until it wasn't enough for Eloise and she sold us out, she called the witches to come get us because she wanted our peice of the power, and our mother wanting to protect us, took a position that was open to her. They offered her the opportunity to be one of their elders and lead the people in a small way. In doing so she gave up her bond with the fire demon and they brainwashed her drained her of all her magic and left her for dead in the cellar.
They brainwashed my sister next and convinced her she would be the next greatest witch of all time.
I tried to run away and found Calas my mother's fire demon dying, I sealed him away into a magic gem to protect him and made a pact with him to share our magic and we healed one another. I was thrown in jail for this and to prove my innocence I had to steep with the wind, so I did, and I steeped into the fay, where I learned that my father was Calas and my true magic was unlocked and then they transported me back but not to the prison, they left me on a beach and told me to find the center of the tides and now here I am.
Unsure of my next step, unsure if my mother is still alive, unsure if my sister is alright, unsure if I am doing anything right." Her hands were burried in her lap now. Tears sprouting from her eyes Nico was holding her hand. She took a long deep ragged breath and then looked up at us.
"Can you help me?" Therease said looking up at us
"Help you what? Find the waves center?" Ramock asked "I mean I guess"
"I think it was the tide break?" I said unsure but nodding
"It dosn't matter, can you help me take down the witches?" She said with more emphasis.
I nodded now more sure of what I was agreeing to but Ramock stood up and kneeled before her.
"I am at your service my lady"
"Never call me lady" she said hallowly
I looked at Ramock uneasily and said "We have to get back to our friends, but they might be able to help as well"
"We will need an army" Therease said with a nod.
Heading back to Lucks place Felicity and I talked over what had happened inside Nico's hut.
"Should we trust them?" Ramock asked
I looked at him sideways "I think they were thinking the same thing about you."
As we got back to the tavern Paws and Luck were sitting together at a table considering.
"I don't think Bel should be going to this" Luck said
"Its fine, he has to learn sometime" Paws said
"I don't know. I'm going then" Luck said as Bel walked Down the steps in a beautiful jewelled and draping silk garment with a long floating tail and big bell sleeves.
"Oh are you joining us?" Said Bel
"Yes and you look lovely" Luck said his eyes shining, woof the fucking tension between those two who knew a lion and a moth could have that much tension.
"Get a room" Ramock yells at them.
"I have a room Ramock, you know this it is #3 on the left" Bel said and I rolled my eyes
"So what are we doing tonight?" I asked
"Party at the pink palace you are invited as my guests" Bel says
"What's the palace?" Ramock asks
"I think its another inn" Bel said with a nod.
"Okay" I said knowing better then to trust bells word on this. Especially with Luck shaking his head like that.
"Don't you dare tell him" paws whispers to Luck.
"Bad idea" said Luck walking away to get changed
"So where were you two"
"Doing a chore for a guy that is in love with Ramock"
"What?" Laughed Paws "I need to know more"
"Yeah this guy Nico, old friend of mine sends me love notes all the time."
"Nico?" Paws says flatly.
"Yes."
"I'm so not dealing with that tonight. Okay. Priority's what are you wearing to this party?"
"Well I don't know I have a dress that I wear to more fancy events." I tell them.
"Good, you?"
"This" Ramock says shrugging
"Unacceptable, that armorer still has blood on it."
"What, it's just jungle cat blood, besides I washed last Month, I am not due for another bath until it rains."
"Woo, nope" said Caspian walking away "I am not touching that"
"Caspian your his self proclaimed mother" I yell after her as she disappears into a room upstairs. Then I turn to him "you know who needs to bath, we have prestidigitation" as I weave cleaning magic over his skin and body Ramock wriggles and shifts away from it.
"No, no, I don't want to be clean!"
"Ramock, it's just to make you look presentable to the lady's" I say trying to calm him down like a toddler having a tantrum. Except this is a fully grown man, at least I think he is fully grown? Ramock starts sobbing as I stop the spell and look at Bel for help.
Caspian comes back down stairs with a bar of soap that looks like bacon and says "how about a mud bath buddy?"
Ramock sniffles and the two head outside to find a pit of mud to roll around in and I sigh.
"What dress are you gonna wear?' Asks Paws looking at me as if nothing just happened.
I lean on the table a moment and scream into the counter then I sit back up and dig into my bag pulling out a white lace petticoat and black and white pinstripe suit jacket over top with a pair of matching black heals. I wear a few pieces of my own jewelry as well.
"Oh nice jewelry?" Said paws
"Oh thank you I made it myself, I'm kind of a designer, I actually made the whole outfit" I tell them.
"Oh, is there anything you have that might match a purple and blue dress with gold stars?"
"Yes, I have a few things in mind, how long before this event?"
"Two hours."
"Oh lets make something." I suggest and start sketching up designs of a seven pointed star with amethyst at the centre of it. Hanging from a gold chain and two long thin beads of golden earrings that run down along paws ears in interacted hopes that clasps around different points of the ear to make up a constellation kind of design. Both turn out beautifully and I give them to paws as a gift to go with their dress.
"Your spectacular felicity" Paws says with a smile lighting up his face.