L [o/i] ve is a journey

Torwards a dream (The Second Day Part 2)| Natural Affiliations to Magic

The sun wasn't on her highest point, and it was already quite hot. Like a silent, bright threat for everybody who dared to walk out, the heat slowly started to regain it's grip over the landscape. Due the specific way the city was built, the raising of temperature was moderate in the streets of Khalaria.

Nerivie and Lunaris walked the street of the city, and with the time passing they met less and less people outsid. The few people who were yet- or still- outside carried water, hurridly went on errants, or got the last things from the market that tey forgot the night before. Others got their laundry inside to prevent it from getting bleached, or put the laundry out, for brighten the the white again. And so the colourful things that were hanged to dry during the night switched places with things that should be white by the end of the day.

As they were passing the busy people, they went ignored by them, as everybody was too indulged into the early work. And as the sun rose up into the sky, time seemed to slow down. And just like the blazing, scorching heat seemed to smother any form of life, the heavy weight of time seemed to enhance the feeling of a slow death by heat, if they would wander out in the desert with no navigation or guide. It was a weird feeling of how every step got stretched out one more moment, one more breath, one more blink into the blazing sun.

Entering the adventurer's guild was thus a welcome relief from the rising pressure of the heat. The building provided the shelter needed, even after the few streets they walked. Nerivie entered the building she went in the day before, with a pouch filled with miniscule things that she ended up selling for about 40 gold, Lunaris anxiously following.

„Oh, the girl with the fox mask! Are you here for a job or looking for a party? But maybe," the man at the reception mustered Lunaris, who looked around clearly insecure and stuck close to Nerivie „you want to register a party?"

„Ah, today, I am rather here to ask you a question. I know the guild provides a possibility to check for element affiliations." Neri asked, pulling Lunaris in, who kept looking around, nervously.

„Yes. I assume, you want your partner being tested, Milady?"

„If possible? How much would the fee be for that?" she inquired and grabbed her wallet.

„4 Silver." Was the reply. Nervie paid the amount by putting the the shopworn coins on the table.

The young men went under the table and grabbed a box, containing a a sphere made out of heavy crystal. The ball was was transparant, with small inclusions in red, blue, green and white, gently sparkling and refracting the light. A true treasure that either was crafted from a high-ranked and rare monster, or was once fully part of the monster. Nerivie couldn't tell, and she never actually researched it. She did try in the beginning, but really early on, it was clear that the resources were opposing each other. That indicated that either nobody cared, or wanted to keep the true origin and knowledge in the shadows.

The clerk took some gloves and slipped his hands into the pair, taking the heavy crystal object out from the box. He then held it torwards Lunaris: „Sir, you need to hold it in your hands and focus on it, as if you would try to talk with it without speaking."

Lunaris took a moment before he dared reaching his hands over the counter, where sudden the weight of the pearl had his hands go down for a bit. He visibly hesitated to take his hands, and thus, the crystal, back. The tall man who recently got named after the god of the moon himself looked to the person who granted him that name to see her encouraging smile and nodding.

Neri was driven by curiousity, and clear excitement.

She remembered to have been gone through the process, even if- back then- was only a technicality to the process to enter the guild. Her affiliation to the element of fire had already manifested and shown itself before that. But she remembered how it felt, and how it turned out to be crucial to be able to understand how her spiritual energy was flowing within her, and to guide it through her. This was a first step for Lunaris to understand how it feels.