⊹ The Research Guild ⊹

⊹ - 2 - a child - 2 - ⊹

"Go on a what?!" Both Head and Flurrian exclaimed with the former even jumping out of his chair.

"Well why not? I think she's been in the Guild long enough to handle this—"

"Saorise this isn't just some everyday mission! This concerns the whole of Faevrian and...and...and..."

"And what?! Flurrian! Honey, don't you wont to go out?"

"I-I-I," she hesitated. It was so sudden and so random. An adventure? No, she was apart of the Processing Unit and that was distances away from the tasks she was accustomed to...

"She's seen everything, she knows the routine, she's perfect! She's the one!"

"That's also the problem! She's just one! The first Guild rule is that we never send a single elf on a mission! Let alone a child—"

"She's 17!"

"She was a child a week ago!"

"You can't be serious! An opportunity has presented itself to you and you can't seem to swallow your pride and accept it!" Saorise banged on the table, nearly making the lantern fall.

"Flurrian is highly incapable of doing this! She's clumsy and she's immature and this is too important for her first mission! Call me prideful but I rather not see our entire planet fall into ruin!"

"M-Mom? Dad?" The twins came downstairs with their blown out candle.

"Oh! You two! Actually, no, you three! Back to bed!"

"Wait what even is the adventure?!"

She went to check the paper but Head quickly swiped them away.

"Lance."

"Saorise."

"Flurrian! Don't I get a say in this?!" The girl managed to snag the paper and started reading it, the shocking news giving her a headache.

"And now you have literal proof of why you can't do this. I'll find someone else—"

"But I can do it! I've been with the Guild for a year and I haven't done anything!"

Head gave her a scolding look, snatching the paper back. He was certainly not going to let the child go on such a dangerous mission. A single screw up could cost not just them, but the whole world. Flurrian was the most likely to screw up...several times. There was no way.

Saorise on the other hand felt the complete opposite. The world needed more Flurrian's, more innovators and thinkers. This would be the perfect experience for her. Plus it's not as if Head had many options anyways.

"What's going on?" Rine and Tine said together.

"Nothing, go back to bed."

"But we want to argue!"

Rine kicked the other boy in the leg. "They're not arguing! It's a conversation! Get it? Con-ver-sa-tion! Say it!"

Tine blew raspberries to which Rine ran upstairs. Besides the creaking from the wood, mini particles began falling.

"Those two...," Saorise sighed. "Look, I'm not saying she can go alone. But at least let her try."