"Hold the letters up a little higher. Higher..."
"Like this?"
I'm hanging up the sign in front of our guild house. It's been a month now and it's been hard but thanks to everyone contributing we finally got our guild house.
The guild house is high in the mountains. We figured it is a good place to have it as it's away from the other guild houses. It's a long path to get here unless you teleport or you know the exact path up the long winding mountain. We don't have much of an infrastructure so far. There is a lot of space but the only thing that we have is one log cabin in the middle of it. It's a temporary place for us to sleep but it's something. We have a lot of space to build up more buildings if we wanted to. It just took a lot of time and energy. We chose the cabin because it was private but there aren't a lot of resources around. We do have huge walls though that Madden and I have been fixing up in our spare time.
"Perfect," Madden says.
"Thanks for helping me out," I state, "The others are always out training."
"Sarafine's here..." Madden states.
I almost forget Sarafine. She is so quiet. She is useless as well for the most part. She is out a few feet away attempting to make a garden. We hardly had a place to lay our heads in this game and Sarafine was making a useless garden. It was pointless trying to get her to help though.
"Right. Well like I said. You're the only one around here who is much help."
Demona and Noah were leveling up in an area that spawned a lot of monsters. God only knew where Hunter was. The guy was gone more than he was around. I knew he would be though. No one ever knew where he went or what he did. He just disappeared. That's what Hunter was good at.
Madden smiles, "I'll always help you."
We glare at one another. Madden is so fucking cute. I've been spending more time with him during this month than anyone else. He was willing to sacrifice leveling up to help me with this guild house. I know we were falling behind the others as far as leveling went but Madden didn't seem to mind.
"You should get out there. Demona's gonna get a big head if she is the strongest warrior."
Madden shrugs, "Let her get a big head. I don't care. I like spending time with you."
My heart stutters when Madden says that.
"You do?"
Madden smiles, "Yeah. Besides. These signs aren't going to hang themselves. The real signs of leadership aren't what level you are but what you are willing to sacrifice."
He's so smart. He probably should be the Guild leader. When we created the guild I attempted to switch it over to him but Madden wouldn't have it. He took the position as Deputy Guild leader though. He said that I was better than him at this. I didn't understand what he meant.
"How's the sign look?"
"Fire Walkers. I like the name. What made you think of it?"
I start nailing the sign into the front of the house. It's just Madden and I at the guild house. We had to spend 50 coins just on the goddam sign. This guild house was expensive and it was nowhere near as elaborate as the other guilds. We were still just starting out though. We were a small guild but we were a guild none-the-less.
"I thought about it because of Noah. I don't know if I told you but in the real world Noah couldn't walk. He was in a wheel chair. In this world he is probably the fastest person we have on his feet. The ideas of us being walkers is important. I want to share that miracle with him."
