Look Its Complicated

"What are you doing out here anyway Misser Lorentino?" I tried to spell Mr. how Jules tended to say it (and she said it often) it made me wonder if there was some kind weird dialect for the money'd class in these lands that made them sound like damn idiot or if Jules was a unique moron.

"I'm looking for a man, he did something to me and I need to find him to undue it." And I wanted to kill him, yes he saved me from me, but he also TRAPPED MY MAGIC INSIDE ME LIKE AN ASSHOLE! He effectively gave me a death sentence and didn't even bother to tell me about it.

"Is anyone from Ronerawth going to help us?" Ruk had gone off with the twins to "hunt", I was left alone with Jules (because heroes are idiots, sure lets leave the ragged clothed older guy with two pistols with our one lone idiotic female who barely manages to feed herself without injury).

"No, the seas are too bad to cross, and to be honest they don't care either way." I'm not the best sugar coater, so of course this lead to Jules crying like someone who just told her her entire land is doomed, because yeah I just did that. Of course this was the moment that Ruk and the twins showed up and Ruk immediately blamed me for telling the truth I guess.  He told me to stand outside and he'd "deal with me" have to say I wasn't really feeling great that I was probably going to have to kill a yokel and doom the other three to being killed by the lands of the flesh monsters.

Ruk emerged from the store front he didn't bring his rifle which had me feeling a little better, he took something to smoke out of one of his pockets, they were hand rolled and he offered me one, I accepted, and he lit our cigarettes with a small lighter he had previously used to start the fire in the basement.  "So we're right truely screwed aren't we?"

"Well if your plan was to wait for help, yeah its not coming." He sighed and looked up, it was night time, the stars were shining bright.

"Well you made it right? Others could come."  He didn't believe it, his tone of voice was that of resignation.

"Aren't you guys heroes? Can't you like save this land with some mystical something or other?"

"Shit thats just what I tell Jules to keep her from freaking out all day, to be honest all I am is a guard, I'm supposed to bring her to a spring where some white haired something or other will stop this for a time and we can go back to being what we were before, nothing more." I had underestimated Ruk, he was more like me than I liked, because honestly seeing anyone like me is terrifying.

"And the twins?"

"In case the witch doesn't accept Jules, magic is dangerous and the group we were with was afraid of them."

"I've see the spring and the lady, she isn't going to save anything."

"I have to try Lorentino, you understand that right? Some heroes right? A scared boy dragging three girls to be sacrificed so we can continue to fight a losing war against evil that is spreading in this land."

"You could always just try and actually kill the evil, I've seen evil its very killable, well normally." I didn't know why I was giving this boy confidence, if he did delay this monstrosity it would make it easier to find my blind man, but at the same time, I can't stand when people assign destiny to others, destiny is just a way of saying "Screw you stop asking."

"How can we stop it though?"

"Well the white thing can stop it right? We just have to find a way to force her to do that without a sacrifice and I happen to know there is a person somewhere in these lands who has that ability, we just have to find him." Ok so I did also have the thought it was better to travel in a group looking for the blind man, instead of you know as I normally do wandering helplessly.  Also I wasn't sold on the sacrifice as anything but a way for Ruk and his friends to get killed, and I'm not a huge fan of that, because as always I felt sorry for the hand they had been dealt and wanted to try and stop that.

And so it went that Trezlan Lorentino joined their party in earnest, well sort of earnest I mean I was using them for protection against this horrid wilderness.