The people around us had started moving again as nothing had happened. It was almost like they hadn't seen anything.
That made me wonder if it was me doing something more than scaring everyone, or did the people just not care?
I was cooling down now, but I had done something. I had forbidden Hershal from lifting his hand.
That was the same as Lishtani's power, but was it hers?
[I am the catalyst to your power, I provide you the power to change and become more like me. In the far future, you will absorb me, and then I can be closer.]
As I got up to Corbit and the other two, he rushed over to me. He looked worried and scared, he must have seen something.
"How did you do that? He started to yell and then he was on the ground thrown down, and you stood where he was with burning red eyes. That was scary, but thank you. I was just about to come to get you to introduce these two, but now they are worried," Corbit said.
"I would like to talk to them, but I don't want to do this here. GLORIA!" I turned my head, shouting. "We are going, I want you to go back and get everyone packed up."
"But, the maze," Gloria complained, but still came over with me.
"Tim, you can come or stay, that is up to you. I am going to find us a place to rent, things will be easier all around this way," I said about to turn back, but Tim walked over, slapping the red crest on his cheek.
"I'm with you because I believe in you and what you are trying to do. There was nothing wrong with what you did… whatever that was. I didn't even see you move until he was on the ground," Tim said, coming to stand with us, and Braum was following him with an apologetic look.
"Hey, I can show you where the Housing Office is located, if you don't mind me tagging along. I also know a bit about Alana, and Victor, so I can fill you in on the walk. I would also like to ask you some questions, my heart is not really into the training anymore," Braum said with a smile grin.
"Yes, that would be helpful on all fronts. Please don't take any offense to what just happened, or me wanting to find a place of our own. I will need to be here for a while, and I will be stepping on a lot of toes in the meantime," I said, finally turning back to the pair.
I felt bad for having to make them wait, but I had to make sure all damage control was done. The girl no longer was crying, but she still looked scared.
"My name is Kiada, I am the Leader of the Crimson Legion Guild in Healia. I have come to Dyster for many reasons, and one of them is to look for new Guild Members."
When I said this, the boy looked away, and the girl buried into his back. This was not the reaction that I thought I was going to get.
"Once you hear about my sister's power, you will be just like the rest. It's not her fault! The gods that labeled her a Demon did this to her!" The young man named Victor said.
"Stop looking at the ground and look into my eyes," I said to Victor.
As he looked up, I sought the white flame, and let the sun fill me with warmth and power. At the same time I let out a bit of anger, and Victor gasped, but Alana, the girl stepped around him.
"What are you?" She asked me as I radiated white like and my eyes glowed softly red.
"Something different than the rest, just like you," I said, letting the lights fade.
That display got people staring, but I didn't care now. This city will know my name and respect it one day, they all would. I wasn't going to bully people with fear, but this would not be a clean path.
"I want you and your brother, he is your brother right?" I asked, before going on.
"Yes, but you want us? For what?" The girl asked curiously, no longer seeming as scared.
"To come with me and join my guild. I and the others will help you deal with whatever your Mana is," I explained to her.
"Are you serious?" Victor asked hopefully, stepping up beside his sister, but Corbit slapped a hand down on the top of his shoulder with a smile.
"Miss K is always serious, at least when she says something like this. No one will take you? That's pretty much our specialty, you should see the shape we were all in before joining her!" Corbit said with a smile, and he wasn't wrong.
Everyone looked healthy now, and I hadn't really thought about it. Almost all the Guild Members were people trying to find a place to belong and came in looking half-starved like these two.
"Yes, please," Alana said looking hopeful.
"Of course then, I am in your service," Victor said, putting his fist over his heart and giving me a bow.
Alana, seeing her brother, copied him cutely. The girl would make a good wife for Corbit when he decided to pay attention to her.
I turned and started to walk back up the hill, and Gloria followed beside me.
"I am coming to get something to eat first," Gloria said while walking beside me.
"No, I need you to go and get the money from Candi Or bring the girls, and then we will all eat," I told her.
"Uck, I don't want to go wake them up," Gloria complained.
"Don't be such a whiner or I will tell Mei your hiding candy from her," I said with an evil smile as we crest the hill, but we both stopped.
Herschel was lean against a windowless building, and he stood up straight when we stopped and started to walk over.
"Yes? What would you like?" I asked Heshal as he walked over.
I glance back and put my hand up to stop everyone. I wasn't sure what his game was, but I was in no mood to play after what just happened, but Hershal bowed his head to me.
"You are right, and I should not have let my emotions get away from me, and Joker would have treated me the same way. I am sorry for saying that it was her fault. I am sorry to you as well girl, I did not act properly," Hershal said to Alana and me, but she had become scared again.
I don't think that I was from Hershal himself, but more of the idea that he saw first hand the damage she had caused, whatever that was.
"Can you please run on ahead with Gloria, and let Joker know that I am getting a new place hopefully by the end of today. If he knew of any place with two or more floors that we could rent, that would be great," I asked Hershal, while Gloria was grumbling beside me.
I reached down and pinched the bottom of her ass cheek, and Gloria let out an OwO sound.
"You witch! What was that for?!" Gloria complained, but then jumped out of the way as I went for and pinch. "Fine, I'll go. You're always so violent!"
Gloria being the same build as me and almost as tall, she looked ridiculous with her tongue sticking out. After a couple of good fists shakes from me, Gloria turned and jogged off, infernal woman!
I turned back to the group, and Alana had some of her smiles back, but the rest of her face looked very confused. I looked up into four stoic-looking men with eyes forward and varying degrees of blush from all ages.
Then I hit me, I had just practically groped Gloria's ass in broad daylight. In front of four males that would have quite different levels of experience with seeing something like this.
Oh my, little girl, the poor confused look on your face. I would have to explain to her about the girls before they all met, but I clapped my hands together.
Everyone snapped out of it as I turned and walked back down the road. Braum and Tim caught up and walked with me as the other three followed behind.
I could hear Corbit explaining to both Victor and Alana about us girls and our relationship. Also, our lack of censoring our actions was the way Corbit had put it, and he wasn't far off.
"You are quite the frisky bunch of women. If that would have been a man, he would have lost a hand or head for that for sure!" Braum said with a smile looking forward as we walked.
"Having soft hands and lips afford you certain privileges in our world," I said with a smile as we rounded the Laughing Ravens Guild.
The housing office is two doors down from the Forge. Do you know where that is?" Braum asked when we got to the front of the guild.
"Yes, why? Are you not coming with us now?" I asked, stopping the rest of the group.
"I should go talk to Joker about this, but one more thing. What do you plan on doing here? You're bent on some kind of change, and I don't quite understand it completely, but I think I agree with it."
"I am here to change the way things are being done and the way adventurers act. You have to see the problem that I am referring to, right? If this is going to be our way of life, then we should be living the very best so that we can benefit everyone, not just the best one."
"Good, that's what I thought you were going to say. Always nice to hear it out loud, rather than assume. Okay, I'll get the girls and the stuff down," Braum said before turning to the guild.
That was a bit weird and mysterious the way he was acting, but I was starting to get hungry. I did have a couple of gold coins stashed away, so maybe I could grab some meat!
"Are you all ready to go?" I asked the group of four. The three young men were standing together, but Alana was standing off to the side.
The boys nodded, and I waved them forward, and then put an arm around Alana's shoulder as she walked up. She was giving me a bit of a strange look, but that passed, and she ended up leaning into me.
"Can I ask what it is? Your power?" I asked quietly as we walked.
There was no hurry, and I could see the boys up the head. They were mostly men in training already, so the three could stay out of trouble for a bit.
"I don't know. It's not fire, but it burns. It blows things away but isn't windy. I can't control it, and people die. Our parents left the city after it happened, leaving us behind."
I let her lean into me as we walked in silence for a bit, then I stuck my hand out and concentrated. I used the flame to grow a garden of flowers in my hand, and Alana gasped.
"I and the others will teach you to control your power and you will become loved and respected. I have some coins, so let's go get some meat before all the other girls get here," I said conspiratorially at the end, pulling her over to Benzil's Meatcart, but there were a bunch of people in the way.
They were a big bunch of people with shaved heads and no shirts, so I stepped back. Tim and the others came over and stood beside me.
The big people were trying to make the vendor sell all his cooked meat for an outrageously low price. The seller looked scared, but then so did everyone else around.
I recognized these people and had already killed multiple of them. Now, this Guild was trying to strong-arm the man that I was trying to buy food from?
Fat chance.
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