Waltz Of A Dying Dragon

2

"You are certainly a treasure, truly wonderful and fascinating."

pronunciation notes:

Elytris - "E-lie-tris"

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"We've come a long way to reach land," (Y/n) hummed, smiling at the boys that she had grown fond of. There was a certain charm to these people that the young girl could not put a finger on. Maybe it was because of how..warm and inviting the little kid was, or how she was curious to know more about the clansman, or maybe it was because of how she wanted to study the odd behavior that the tallest one portrayed. Either of those reasons could explain why she stuck around, for now anyway. Though the archer doubts that she'll ever let these people go.

The Magalig clan is always out seeking potential friends and potential business partners. Was it perhaps in her blood, as the eldest daughter of the honored family, to seek out people? No...that can't be right. (Y/n) saw herself as a shellfish, hiding within the confines of home, shielding herself from the known world. The only times she's ever been outside was to visit a nearby town, beside her village, to conduct trade. She..never really had a good reason to leave the comforting confinements of the forest that surrounded her large village.

Was she ever curious to explore the world?

Yes, but only with permission.

Certainly she was..an odd explorer. Only exploring what was available to her. Now that she was out of her home, she could properly admire the world that she shielded from herself. Now that she thought about her situation, seeing how the hunter license could take her anywhere, she came up with an idea. She'll take advantage of that card to fulfill her dreams of going in every spot the known world can give her, of course if it allowed her to.

(Y/n)'s (e/c) eyes stare at the town before her, finding it quite..small, yet comforting. A hum comes from her mouth as she looked at her companions, a smile crawling to complement her features. She sees two of them return the smile, though Leorio seemed to look somewhere else. Curious to what it was, the young woman did the same. There, the site she finds was filled with young men, perhaps aspiring hunters, boarding the buses in a hurry. A pout now replaces what she had on her face.

"I feel bad for those people," (Y/n) blurted out, her hands lightly tugging on the strap of her carrier bag, "It looks like they don't know where they're going."

"Aren't we supposed to go over there though?" Leorio mumbled, his eyes looking to the rest of the team, "The instructions say we gotta take a bus to the town and then from that point on we can head off to the testing site."

Ah..how oblivious. Surely this man is the first in his family to take the exam. The young girl was told about this misconception. Her mother was the one who had done so. The only response that Leorio got from the archer was her shaking her head, her eyes averting away from his piercing browns to look at the buses that drove away from the dock.

"You can't trust what the instructions say. This exam isn't as easy as you may think. Gullible people are easy to fool, you know," the archer mused, smiling up at the eldest teen in the group. Her gaze falls on the boy clad in green, his eyes immediately lighting up when he thought of an idea. Does he remember something?

"Well how would you know that you can't trust the pamphlets they gave out to ya?" Leorio inquired, though it sounded more like he was demanding a reasonable answer from her.

Of course she did answer.

"I've said before that I came from a family of hunters. They told me getting to the exam is always the same, though it confuses a lot of new applicants." A laugh rises from her throat as her gaze falls on the tallest male in the bunch, "No matter what type of transportation the association's pamphlets tells you to use, it's always going to end up the same. The described way of moving is going to lead you to a dead end. The only way you know how to get there properly is if you have connections. Usually the person taking you to a place closest to the exam site is the one telling you how to get there."