Waltz looked rather interested in what Glitch had to say. "Cheat, huh? Now normally, I wouldn't give a hoot about trying something like that, but I feel like that could be rather useful knowledge..." She trailed off, thinking about how easy it would be to support herself and her brother.

"Oh, I'm Waltz. And no matter what you say, I'm coming with you on this quest. Don't try and stop me, Pine. And don't worry about 'owing me', because I'm choosing to do this of my own free will because I want to, not because I want retribution." The vulnyx smiled slightly, trying to put the zolnixi at ease.

Aria squawked from inside the knapsack as she tumbled over and over. In reality, the human had been hit by a fiery blow. The human flailed and threw the knapsack upward. Inside the crowded Aurleon was struggling to keep herself stable, but when the knapsack came to a crash she was knocked out cold.

As they made their way into the town after Red, Glitch pointed out the different games and how to win.

She motioned to a big wheel, "Spin the wheel games are usually set up on a pedal system so the owner can stop the wheel on whatever they want. If someone can get under the table they can press the pedal when I give the signal."

Red picked up the knapsack containing the Aurleon, and opened it. She had a potion on hand, so she dragged her out and gave her the potion and a revival draught. "Are you OK?"

Pine's head was spinning.

One moment there was a aurleon dropping gold, the next they where in town. Then all of a sudden Red run off.
When he tried to follow red Feiht had grabbed him.
'Uh uh uh, you ain't going anywhere yet.'

And then they had walked to the games where Glitch was explaining things about cheating.

Cheating of all things. Sign. All he wanted was to leave on his journey. Not a day had passed and already he had made trouble with a 'thief' dragged in other girls, caused glitch to leave her home, and now said girls where going to cheat. He hated cheating.

He signed again. His thoughts dwelled back to Red. He wonderded if she was ok. She ran of so fast.

Oh why did he worry about her. He had other things on his mind, it was not his idea for those girls to join, what should he care if one just ran off.

except he did care.

Sign again

Lucky for him, he already had 400 gold collected without cheating. Feiht meenwhile was relaxing in the corner, chatting with his new 'lady friends'.

Sign again

He hoped this ordeal would be over soon.

"Guys, come over here! I think she's hurt pretty bad! I need some help lifting her to a branch..." She yelled . The aurleon hadn't responded, and she was getting worried.

She wasn't going to let another Sylesti die.

Aria.. We've been expecting you..

A shadowy figure of a Sylesti whisped around in front of her.

You can now join us... All of us...

'Who are you?' she wanted to ask, but when her brain told her to say so her mouth obviously didn't. No matter how much she tried to make noise, her beak was shut, and all was silent.

Come with us.. We know a land of peace.. Perfection..

The echoing words bounced around the area. It didn't even seem like it was coming from the figure anymore - for now there were several figures.

Then, she tasted something tangy and sour. It felt like she was drinking something.

Noooo!

The figures were warping away now, and Aria could finally open her beak to breathe..

You'll join us all soon enough! You will see us! For we are-

--

"Wassat?!"

She looked up and saw a rather familiar red Faelora. Aria was inhaling and exhaling rather deeply, for the dream had taken a lot of air out of her.

Dream.

Was it really a dream? It seemed so real. And those voices sounded farmiliar..

Still very weak, she looked up.

"Do you know where I am?" Aria asked the Faelora.

Waltz smiled at Glitch. "I can get under the table if you want. What's the signal going to be though?" She was careful to speak softly so nobody else could hear them talking about cheating. Or rather, as Waltz liked to put it, taking advantage of loopholes.

"I'll do this." Glitch told Waltz and tapped her right paw on the ground twice. Then she heard Red call them and ran over to see what was up.

She saw the red Faelora standing over an injured Aurleon, it looked like the same one that had dropped the coins. "Woah, what happened?" She asked, spotting the knapsack and the man in white.

She eventual met with sylesties looking at some thing. Hi, what are you looking at?
Oh. she paused as she saw what was in front of her. she took it in.

She had seen this before,...... when her parents vanished.
She always claimed she had never known them but had always known deep inside what had happened. She had sealed the pain and memory's inside but they now came flooding back.

she had tried to follow but had to turn around.