One True Professor

Confusion, Confusion and did I mention Confusion?

Dovey and Lesso were halfway to Camelot, and coversation struck up after an hour of silence.

"What should we do next?" Dovey asked.

"Shouldn't that be obvious? Slap some sense into Tedros, that's what we really should do." Lesso replied, as if that was the most obvious thing in the world.

"You're not helping, and anyways, I'm sure that this is just a misunderstanding."

"A misunderstanding as in, royal purple aura, the grandest crown I've ever seen on your head, the Storian gone, and everywhere collapsing? Is that a misunderstanding?"

Dovey sighed. "Now that you put it that way, it doesn't seem like one at all." After that was spoken, they lapsed into silence again.

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Sophie was having a hard time cleaning up the mess her creams had made, there was this one massive blob that wouldn't go, no matter how many times she scrubbed at it, washed it, you name it. She was just about to give up when it hit her. How was I so stupid this whole time? she thought. What she was referring to was something that the dumbest of the dumb could see. The blobs were in the shapes of letters, and the letters spelled out a sentence. It read:

Go to Tedros' castle now.

She groaned. Anywhere but his castle. She didn't mind Aggie, of course they were sisters and best friends but she really didn't want to see Tedros again. Their relationship has gotten a bit, if you put it in a nice way, icy ever since she tried to be in charge of the redecorating and made everything pink and drew moustaches on Tedros' portraits. When he caught her, this happened.

"When you let go of your appearance, then your true personality shines through" She said, while Tedros looked confused. Seeing his befuddlement, she said "I'm going to translate, because you're obviously too dumb to figure out what I meant. Basically, it means when you turn ugly, your true personality shines through, and since you're dull and dumb, I was trying to help you become a better person by adding a moustache which would make you ugly, but it seems that taht didn't work at all, because look at you, you're still as stupid as ever!"  Of course, she meant that in a joking manner but Tedros saw it in a different way. He ordered her sent out of the castle and told her to never come back.

She huffs at that memory and started to pack her creams and what's left of her clothes from the earthquake.

"Come on darlings, we're going on an adventure." she said to them.

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Nicola was busy tending to the customers at her fathers inn. Sadly, he passed away a year earlier so Nicola fulfilled her lifelong dream of looking after it and working there instead of her pig brothers. Only, recently she felt the need to go on adventures again with her friends in the Endless Woods and be who she truly was again. Nicola the smart, witty and kind girl who surprised them all with her intelligence when she was only in her first year. Even though they went through hard times then with bounties on their heads, she realised that she felt free then, and that she was the real Nicola then.

Serving customers in the Pigs Inn (I think this is the name correct me pls if I'm wrong lol) has stripped away all the things that made Nicola Nicola. She was sent on that adventure for a reason im her first year by the Storian, and that reason was that she was made for it.

And now she felt something was happening, and that she had to be part of it. Ignoring the abnormally large queue of customers and journalists that still want to know what it was like fighting against the snake after four years, she skipped out the door and grabbed her horse that she kept in a stable behind the inn.