Alicard opens a door to his house. He sees his pile of books on his shelves and many papers scattered on his floor even his alchemy lab was scattered with ingredients. "Right, Stryker! You home?" He calls out with an echo ringing through out his house. Something shuffles through the papers as a figure jumps out from the book shelf blade in hand. Almost like lightning Alicard snaps his fingers to produce a small glass like dagger into his hand to block the on coming attack. As the two blades clash, the figure falls into the bookshelf causing a few books to collapse. Alicard swipes away the magical dagger. "Alright Stryker your cleaning that up this time." Stryker gets up taking off her helmet revealing her long brown hair and dirtied face "Didn't catch you by surprise this time didn't I?" Stryker says "No not really." Alicard says while flipping his hood off. His long silver hair reaching his shoulders as he hangs up the cloak while unstrapping a small blue potion. He pops the cork of and drinks it. "So anything happen while in the forest Ali?" Stryker says with interest. "Don't call me that again and I'll tell you." As he finishes the drinking his potion. "Don't be such a downer Alicard besides I've got some intel on some more spell tomes that you don't have. Now tell me the goods." She says almost bragging. Alicard sighs and agrees "Well after the morning read I sought out to find us some food in the forest when some elf Lance was knocked down by an orc. Luckily for him I was there to help him out." "What's he like?" Stryker says as she's puts the books back on the shelf. He snickers "He's an Ariendel thief blond hair blue eyes sharpshooter with his bow-" "Wait. An Ariendel thief?" Stryker interrupts she almost starts laughing. Alicard annoyed, freezes her mouth shut. "As I was saying, as soon as I showed him the city he takes my small coin bag, which only had I think ten gold and ran off into Gremlock to Gods know where." Alicard says chipping off the ice off her lips "you know you didn't have to do that" she says angrily "Yes I did. Now tell me about this info you have about these spell tomes." Alicard says
Lance having snatched the coin bag from Alicard, sprints as fast as he can into Gremlock towards a large crowd. He stops in an ally way to catch his breath "I think I've lost him. Now then let's see the goods." Lance opens up the bag to see only a few pieces of gold. "That's it!? What am I supposed to do with this?" He slams down the bag "Damnit. Damnit all, Ariendel help me out here a bit." He feels his stomach turn and rumble. He carefully and cautiously walks out of the ally and searches out for a market. When he finds the large central market. He sees all the fresh cuts of mud crab, deer, wolf, even the occasional sweet treat. His mouth watered as he tries to settle with a roasted mud crab claw. "Now then," Lance says chewing and walking through the city "let's see what's around here." He walks by Alicard's house as he hears Alicard shouting "Nirvana?! Do you really think we can make out alive going to Nirvana!?" Lance interesting leans in on the door to get a closer hearing.
Meanwhile inside the house Stryker says "Hey man you said you needed spell tomes and I found where they are." Alicard looking through his map of Ariendel "Yes I know I said that but we can't even step foot in Nirvana, hell we barely made it out of Ruxmar. If you seriously think we can even have our heads after we leave Nirvana, then you're clearly losing your mind" Stryker sharpens her broadsword with a piece of sand stone "What about that Lance guy you saw? He's bound to be here somewhere." Alicard looks directly at her "That elf? He couldn't even kill an orc gods forbid an entire army." She puts the stone to the side and tightens up her steel armor. "You never know he was caught off guard. And besides." She opens the door making Lance fall on his face dropping his mud crab leg "He's already here." She shuts the door as the two look down at him. "So spying on us then I see." Alicard says picking up the mud crab leg and takes a bite out of it "Please, I'm almost desperate for food and besides we have the same location in mind." Lance says his eyes darting between the two "Oh really?" Alicard snaps his fingers to cause a small flame to slow roast the leg. Stryker helps him up "Come on Alicard besides you need the tomes this might be our best shot at doing so you'll be one step closer to that Battle Mage Armor." She says enthusiastically. Alicard thinks for a second, "So what does he need out of this?" Alicard says staring Lance down "Just food, shelter and a bit of hospitality." Lance says a bit frightened. Alicard looks back at the leg "Alright," He flicks off the flame from his thumb and tosses it to Lance "We leave tomorrow, that gives us all enough time to prepare and gather food." Stryker with happiness "Great I'll get started!" She runs up the spiral staircase to get her stuff. Lance gets up on his feet, as he looks up an angry Alicard stares him down not even an inch away from him "I don't know what you're playing at elf but one things for sure, cross me or her and you'll be saying hello to Tiraness. Is this understood?" Alicard says in lower tones. Lance nods trying to keep calm. "Good. Now then," he tosses Lance a bigger bag of coins "there's 400 gold in there gather food armor and arrows tell them Alicard sent you and if you're not back before dusk then we find you." Lance agrees and heads out the door. "I'm definitely keeping my eye on this Lance"
