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As Zoe finished helping one of the students onto the dragon, she wiped her forehead with her hand and sighed, everyone was so energetic and while before it looked like they would be there for ages helping people mount the dragons, the crowd had thinned. Lots of students seemed to just be there to see the dragons than actually ride them. However there was also still a few students around who seemed a bit more indecisive and still didn't know if they wanted to ride or not, from what Zoe was told before by Emily, it seems its actually quite difficult to fall of the dragons as long as you are mounted properly. Looking around at all the students and getting some breath back, Zoe decided she would try to see if she could prompt anyone into giving it a try. 'If anyone still wants to ride in the race, feel free to come to me or Miss Cait! The race will be starting soon, come try this if you have never done something like it before!' There were still quite a few unmounted dragons in the pen with saddles on so there should be room for more people, the more the merrier as they say.

Whether more people would decide to join or not, Zoe really didn't have a clue, but maybe a few people were just a nudge away from experiencing something like this and she wasn't really one for letting people miss a fun experience.

Nathaniel had heard of the ancient Tynarian runestones that lay in ruin in the forests surrounding the school. It would be fascinating to see them without being burdened by student’s nearby classes or needing to teach one. Classes would not be held today, and everyone’s attention would be drawn to the Dragon Festival. Nathaniel pulled his notebook from its small harness beneath his maroon overcoat and pre-emptively began marking the date and marking the notable natural markers on his journey: semicircular stone with horizontal crack, fallen branch with three offshoots hanging halfway out of a shrub. In his excitement when he had been accepted the position at Avalos, he memorised all the runestones in the surrounding forest and the layout of the cave systems nearby. He had already found one of them, it was so alien to be among the people of the past. To read the texts written eons ago by the Tynar tribes, their society and leaders once thought deific now lost to the folds of history.

It was not long before Nathaniel reached the forests and inhaled deeply, the centuries of history and life was present for anyone willing to stop and watch. He brushed his hand across a tree trunk, observing a small black ring among the many. A fire. A great fire scorched the wood, yet the tree survived and lived for many years before finally falling. Nathaniel continued with an extra spring in his step, invigorated by the sheer presence of the forest’s clear past and present. Some powerful shamans and druids devoted their entire lives to these monoliths of green and brown. Nathaniel could respect anyone so dedicated to the preservation of life, a field of magic essential to a mage’s work. It was the opposite that earned his ire. Destruction and chaos had no business in a mage’s arsenal, much less a students'.

The Dragon Festival was seen as an extravagant celebration held by one of the best schools, The Avalos Academy. Of course, it was a yearly event filled to the brim with fun things to do. Games, dances, and other things were held along with students, both new and old, were swarming the area. Despite everyone’s motive to have fun, Drake’s motive was to evaluate some of the newbies coming in. To make sure what lay ahead of him, he wanted to check if there were any notable students with outstanding abilities. He figured that most of the new students would be heading to the dragons’ pen and meeting with the Academy’s own principal, Emily Cait. While it would be great to meet one of the most powerful magic users in the land, Drake had another motive to join the dragon race.

One of his most powerful summons, White-Eyed Dragon, was a summon Drake wanted to improve on. While she’s strong and devastating, she can’t be summoned immediately and takes a long time to blast opponents. He hoped that getting to interact with actual dragons would benefit him. If he bonded with a dragon, it may help him summon White-Eyed Dragon immediately and use her at her maximum potential. That’s why he was eagerly waiting for the Dragon Festival to arrive.

At the dragon pen, he was within the crowd of students. Obviously, they didn’t show off much of their magic powers since no one was dueling anyone. Drake figured that the answer may lie in their personalities and/or how they did during the race. As he was quietly strategizing, students left and right were getting ready to race. Seeing this, he raised his hand in the middle of the crowd.

“Excuse me!” He raised his voice. “I would love to join in on the Dragon Race, please. And I will say this, I’m going to win.” He didn’t stutter at all, Drake confidently and arrogantly claimed that he’ll win the race.


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Lucian had decided to head over to another student who seemed to be interacting with Lancelot. It did seem like alot of students rather preferred to watch the race rather than participate in it.
"You interested in the race? I thought I'd sign up myself. Been getting ready to be mounted. Perhaps you should join, could be fun." Lucian said shrugging.
As many students were gearing up, he knew he didn't have too much time to chat. So he ended up heading to his dragon before calling back.
"Well it was nice meeting you. I got a race to be in."

As he had made his way back to Priffydiaz, the dragon he had been assigned to, he began buckling up. He had actually been a part of races whenever they were held, he was quite a fan of anything involving the dragons whether it was air combat or races or whatever was planned involving the dragons. It was quite fun, he was always for fun and mischief.

Buckling himself up, he patiently awaited instructions as he glanced at other students who had been preparing for the race as well. Who knows, perhaps he would win the race and end up being more popular as a result. Well probably he suspected as he was known as a bit of a troublemaker.

His thoughts were interrupted as he heard a new student who had signed up for the race. He chuckled. "Well if you think you can beat the rest of us then let's see about that." He said calling out.
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Principal Cait and Professor Listam had gathered all the students together, as students mounted on dragons had gathered in front of a finish line. There was a path of dirt that was cut out from the grass of the fields, with black and white tape marking the finish line and flags could be seen in the distance as markers. Principal Cait had been carrying around a whistle necklace now.

Principal Cait had gathered all the spectator students and the attention of the students racing as she stood in-front of the pen.
"Alright everyone thank you for gathering here. This is the details for how this dragon race will occur. As all of you know very well, this is a special festival celebrating both dragons and the history of this school. Almost 700 years ago an agreement called the Magnar Dragos between the Royal Country and The Empire, in which this school was formed. Every year we celebrate this festival in honor of the agreement and the celebrating of dragons and magic." Principal Cait said to the students.

"Well anyways, this race shall be broken down into 2 segments. Both the field segment on foot, and the mountain segment on air. Myself and Professor Listam and the students watching will be following a adjacent path along the race as we watch the ones racing. There will be a few stops where the view will be nice and some interesting locations to study along the way, there is a cave that I think you all might find quite interesting in the mountains." Principal Cait said smiling.
Cave Lumen. It's a good thing the weather is good enough again, I always find visiting that cave quite enjoyable. Hopefully nothing goes wrong this year, last year was quite a scuffle.



"The ground path will be quite direct. All you gotta do is move on foot through the fields until you begin to reach the mountainside. It shouldn't take more than 10-15 minutes of running on dragonback. The path should be quite obvious as it's directly on the dirt road. It's a straight shot up to the mountains. As you reach the mountains you should easily fly up to the northest peak and circle back before looping back to the finish line as you fly on the backside of the mountain back to the fields where the finish line is located.
You'll be timed on your results and that will be something recorded for the yearbook that will be made at the end of the school year. (Foreshadowing a yearbook club activity possibly?)"

With that the Principal had pulled out the whistle and blew on it signalling the beginning of the race.
"Well students, I think we should begin our hike across the fields. I for one, am very excited to be able to visit Cave Lumen once again, how about you Professor Listam? Cait asked Listam as they began to follow along the ones racing.

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While both Hyuuna and Lena had been moving about in the forest searching for the imps, they had wandered towards a series of gems, flowests and trinkets all aligned in an array of ring ling circles surrounding eachother. It so happened another student had been following them close behind, both students unaware they were being followed.
Lena had walked closer to the array before crouching down infront of them studying them carefully without touching.

"This is it. The portal to the pocket dimension we're headed into. We just need to activate it and we'll be in their village. Once we're in however we need to make sure they don't notice us trying to take the therngrass. We'll have to find it and sneak out. I can try to cloak us to make us look like imps but we don't know how they operate so we should try to avoid interacting too much." Lena said before her hands began swirling with red magic.

Lena began to pour some of her Aether into the array of rings before it began glowing a translucent red color, similar to the color of the magic swirling in her hands. The array glowed as a swirling portal appeared.
"Alright let's go." Lena said before hopping into the portal. Perhaps their follower would follow them into the portal after them.
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As the students had arrived on the other side of the portal, they found themselves in a beautiful tree village. Grand houses made out of trees were seen as a cohesive and grand village was found.
Many imps were seen living daily lives as some set up market places and some were moving around shops or just going about their day.

It was quite a sight to behold but Lena knew they couldn't get too distracted by the place. Somewhere in this village there was definitely therngrass. Lena had remembered in one of her classes that therngrass was a type of grass grown by imps that had magical properties. So they must have bee looking for some sort of garden somewhere.

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Lorelei had noticed another student tinkering at what looked to be a pocket watch. That wasn't against the rules or anything but she found herself bored of just standing around so she decided to approach the student. She walked up to the student and spoke up, noticing his tools and the cloth that he had been using to dismantle the watch.
"Having problems? I think the student council would be glad to fix the watch if you need help." She said eyeing his work.

She wondered why he was hanging out here and not dancing like the rest of everyone. While Lorelei was only here to monitor the main hall she didn't necessarily have to be participating in the event. Infact it was probably better as she could more easily stand at attention without being distracted if she wasn't participating.

That being said it was still her duty to make sure everyone was doing well. So to make sure this person didn't need help was part of her responsibility.

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Riza was under a prickly bush farish from the weird ground when she saw the two students in front of her disappear into what looked like a portal. Making her decision she pulled herself up out of the bush, ran, and jumped in behind them hoping that they would have moved so she didn't run into them. What would they do if they knew she was following them? She knew for sure it probably wouldn't be good. As she emerged from the portal she ran into something hard it was the one girl dressed in red. oh no! She though. I'm dead now. Then before the fierce looking girl could turn Riza curled up and awaited her fate. Noticing how lovely the flowers were under her, she quickly realized this was probably the last thing she would see. "Please don't kill me" Riza whispered. She was to scared to fight.

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Hyuuna followed suit, excited for what is to come. Upon arriving at the other side, she is amazed by the beautiful landscape. "WOW!!!" Hyuuna yelled out loud "This is the place where the imps lived? This place looks so cool!" But then she heard a loud thump. She turns around to see another student who has been following them for so long. "Hey, don't be scared. You could have just tell us that you're coming." Hyuuna said in an assuring tone.

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Riza looked up and when she saw the girl beside her she realized that she wouldn't die this second. " Oh well your um friend looks alittle scary and I didn't want to ask to join because I was confused and I should have been brave but I'm not usually running into scary people." She chuckled slightly "You really sure it's ok if I come with you?" "This place is amazing!" Riza starts to get up not to afraid now. "I mean um hi, I'm Riza what's your name?" She stands before the nice looking girl.
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Eos, despite enjoying her time around dragons, preferred not to participate in races. She wasn’t the racing type and when it came to dragons, she merely enjoyed watching them. Back at home, with the many customers that she got, there was often stories tantalising the air; stories of dragons, battles and love. She heard them all, often saw them too: But that was a story for another time.

Sometimes she indulged in the solitude while she had a moments peace from the entities that walked the plains. Due to her powers, she was never alone- Not really. Even during her most intimate moments, she was always in the vicinity of a something. Eos sighed from her position; watching as students raced off to begin the dragon race. She merely shook her head with a small smile and turned on her heel; walking towards the great hall. A lovely seat with her favourite book sounded fantastic right about now. How wrong she had been.

The moment she entered the hall, regret crossed her features. Eos roughly brushed her hand at the back of her head; itching it from a nervous tick. Her quiet solitude would have to wait for what lay before her was dancing- Another thing she didn’t particularly want to take part in. Were any of the classrooms open? She dragged her eyes across the room, watching the forms of students intertwine in beautiful dances. She also watched on as spectral bodies danced with one another; loving embraces from a time long past. In these small moments, the ones where she could admire them from a distance, she didn’t particularly mind her powers. She walked slowly, confident, and finally managed to find a more secluded spot away from most of the students. She sat down on a chair, watching the scene before her until a boredom grew in her and she lifted her satchel onto her lap.

She was quite elegant, poise even. From her dresses to the way she spoke, she seeped a rich lifestyle from her very pores. Despite all this, she’d give it up in a heartbeat to life somewhere in the country, away from the nagging requests of the rich and elite. Eos gently patted down her dress, making sure it fell flat against her legs while she pulled forth a book from her satchel and began to read.

Finally, Nathaniel Fletewoode reached the small clearing with the runestone. It was just like the other. Farenroot had taken hold of the area and grown up the runestone, now looking like a two-metre pillar of green. Nathaniel ripped a stone from the ground, Farenroot still clinging to its surface. He whispered an incantation and twisted his wrists slowly. A purple mist began pouring from his arms, forming into a second pair just below his original. Nathaniel placed his journal and piece of charcoal in the spare arms and progressed into the clearing. From one of his many pockets, Nathaniel drew a piece of enchanted chalk and drew the Flame Sigil, Xeas, upon the stone. The flames rose unnaturally and the few strands of Farenroot gave out a barely audible shriek and fell to the ground. He held it close to the runestone, the Farenroot shrinking away to reveal ancient carvings, perfectly preserved beneath the roots. As he read, reading the runes vertically downwards, it told of a great hero and their great deeds.

“Here lies the sepulchre of the last great Dagaan of the Tynar, master of the sky and sea.” There must have been a tomb right beneath his feet, judging by the abundance of plant life, it may still be undisturbed! Nathaniel could have jumped for joy at the prospect of digging up those artefacts and exploring a long-dormant tomb. His suspicions were correct, this was a Tynarian runestone. He had heard of this Dagaan figure, a chieftain of sorts, in charge of all the tribe’s rituals. If this was the last Dagaan, this may have been Dagaan Rana the Sure! One of the greatest Tynarian leaders in all of —

A rustling of leaves and the echo of voices ripped Nathaniel from his trance. What were students doing this far in the forest? At least, he hoped they were students. Nathaniel nearly fell when he tried to approach. Glancing down, he noticed the Farenroot had grown over his feet and almost brushing his knees. He waved the stone around his legs until he could rip them free. He looked up just in time to see a flash of light in the distance. He broke into a sprint. Were they duelling? Experimenting? Nathaniel watched as students began to step into a swirling red portal. This was no duel he’d ever seen. It looked more like a fiendish sacrifice more than anything. Nathaniel charged forward and flew through the portal after them. As his vision flashed and the scenery renewed, he just barely avoided crashing into three students on their own in front of an imp village.

“WHAT IN THE ARCHMAGE’S NAME ARE YOU DOING?” Nathaniel shouted, before straightening his back and calming his tone, “Where is your teacher? Why aren’t you at the festival? And what are you doing opening portals to Imp demiplanes?”


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Riza was in the middle of a conversation when a very loud crash sounded behind her and the others. It was a guy making that loud racket."WHAT IN THE ARCHMAGE’S NAME ARE YOU DOING?” he shouted. Then a bit more calm he asked “Where is your teacher? Why aren’t you at the festival? And what are you doing opening portals to Imp demiplanes?” Why was he talking so loud couldn't he see the imps? Riza though. If we're discovered by the imps it won't end well. "Are you insane!? Shut up or the imps will hear you" Riza said quietly. "And we are going to get therngrass as an assignment from a teacher." She pointed her staff irritatedly at him "what are you doing here anyway?"
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"I am not scary" Lena said after the new girl had joined them through the portal frowning. It wasn't exactly planned that this would be a three person mission but they didn't really have a choice at this point, and Hyuuna seemed quite welcoming of the new girl. And yet another person had decided to chase them through the portal array.
"What do you think we're doing you lug! We're trying to sneak around to gather therngrass." Lena said annoyed. They were supposed to be quiet...
Despite this however, Lena was suprised he was being so loud. If the imps didn't hear them enter, they would've heard them now. Just as Lena suspected an older imp with a staff began to walk up to them.
"Humans. What has brought you all here to our homes? I am P'atas, the village elder here." Said the old imp. Upon closer inspection the imp had cloth robes and had a grey beard.
"It has been a long time since a human has entered our dimension, for the sake of the last student who befriended us, I am willing to hear why you have snuck into our realm of existence.

Lena was suprised to hear that another student had once visited the imps. She wondered why a student would so willingly visit imps. Usually imps were quite tricky and were known to be a bit dangerous.
Lena looked up before speaking up.
"You said another student once visited you?"
The village elder looked solemnly at Lena before answering.
"Yes another student once visited this place, although she has since long passed away."
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Well the student didn't seem to need help, although he just seemed to like to mess with the watch. The boy had mentioned that he liked to dismantle and reassemble the watch often. He seemed almost lost in thought for awhile before asking Lorelei if he had seen her around before.
"Probably. I am a member of the student council, I am the hall monitor, which surprisingly entails alot more than just monitoring halls. You might have seen me around before.
My name is Lorelei Spritter." Lorelei said offering her hand to shake.

"I'm a Freshmen here, so It's been quite a surprise I've already been voted into the student council given the year barely just begun. Not that I mind. It's quite entertaining being here and everything."
She said looking around the main hall.
"I was told by the president to make sure nothing bad goes down in the main hall here, but I don't think we'll have anything to worry about." She said.
Most people seemed happily dancing or conversing safe for a lone girl reading a book.
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Lucian was quite excited to be racing, especially with such a beast like Priffydiaz. He had heard of plenty of records that had been set over the hundreds of years of the school. He wanted to be able to set the new highest record so that future students could see his record and try to break it. As he saddled up while Principal Cait had begun going over the details of the race, he flashed smiles at some of the girls who were in the crowd watching, only for some of them to roll their eyes and others to blush. When Principal Cait told them about the highest peak he was excited, He didn't know that the dragons would be allowed to go that high. Although he had always been told the dragons were trained to land safely and make sure nothing too crazy happened during races, and that they always kept the safety of the students in mind.

Perhaps that was why Principal Cait was going to tail the race. It would certainly be easier for Professor Listam and Principal Cait to act if they were closer to the students racing.
He patiently awaited awhile before the Principal Blew the whistle signalling the beginning of the race.

Not waiting for the other racers to be aware of the race beginning, he and Priffydiaz began to run across the field.
"See you losers!" He said shouting behind him as the dragon began to race at a fast pace on the field.
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"I'm Hyuuna, and this Lena. Nice to meet you, Riza." The country girl spoke until the arrival of an older man yelling at them. He was so loud that the imp elder has taken noticed of them. Hyuuna was up for a fight when he mentioned a student that happened to have befriended long ago. "What's her name? She must have made a large impact on you and your kind." Hyuuna asked.

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Riza heard the rest of the girls talking behind her. She kept her staff trained on the guy and eyed him. " I don't know but my instinct feels like you aren't to be trusted" then she gets a happyer look on her face and pulls the staff back her way. " But my instincts have been wrong before" she stands infront of him "so why exactly did you follow us?"
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“Three students wandering through the forest unsupervised and travelling through a glowing red portal? What else could I have done?”
Nathaniel Fletewoode looked round to the elderly imp. His temper had gotten the better of him and now he had alerted the natives. Perhaps he could talk their way out of it. He could not just blind the old man and push these students back; they were on a mission from a teacher. For therngrass. What teacher needed therngrass? It couldn’t be the archery teacher; Nathaniel hadn’t seen her all day. Principal Cait said she would be tending to the dragons, there was no way she would send unsupervised children into the forest, right? But Professor Madare on the other hand... that mysterious woman dodged any mention of her magic. Perhaps it was she who sent the students into the imp village. Nathaniel snapped himself out of his trance and knelt before the elderly imp.
“P'atas. P'atas the Perceptive, P'atas the Wise. It is truly an honour to meet you. We did not mean to intrude, these students were on a quest for the Academy’s principal, Professor Emily Cait. I was simply supervising them.” Nathaniel neglected the rest of the story, “We are here on a mission of trade. It would be a privilege to be able to trade some of our meek knowledge for a small amount of therngrass you may have. Would this be possible? Would we have to speak to someone else? Surely we wouldn’t have to go much further than P'atas the Perceptive to organise some trade?”
It was the best he could come up with. Silently, Nathaniel reflected on everything on his person. He still held the small stone with flames rising from a sigil on its surface, he had his old notebook which now served as the first edition of his book, Symbolic Chronology, he held two more books in holsters on either side of his ribs. If worst came to worst, he could always draw sigils for them and leave before they wore off.

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"Maybe we were fine on our own and didn't want to get anyone else involved" Riza turned as he walked past her and started talking to the imp. Riza was irritated at the sudden apperance of someone older. She was finally allowed to attend school and not have her parents watching her every second of every minute. And here she finaly gets to be with other student that don't boss her around. Arrrggg! Why cant I get a break from older people. Well if he thinks he can boss me around he is wrong. Riza finished her conversation with herself and plops down on the grass. Man this place is pretty. " I'll be ready to move when you've figured out what to do with the imp. " Then she sits and closes her eyes to think about useless stuff to pass the time.
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Walking out to the race course with Emily, Zoe looked around curiously, the weather was really good today which was good for the festival and despite all the other activities going on, a lot of students had ended up joining the race or coming to watch. They stopped at a race course and Zoe peered around once more, enhancing her eyes she looked over at the mountain signalling as the turn-a-round point, after hearing the cave spot get mentioned, Zoe looked a bit harder but couldn't see anything from where they currently were. Looks like I will have to contain my curiosity until we get there... Slowly turning her eyes to normal view she looked at all the dragons lined up, Zoe trusted them, but there is no such thing as being too careful, which is why she was planning to use that skill to keep a close eye on everyone in the race. While still in her daze she was quickly dragged out of it by the loud sound of a whistle.

Watching as all the dragons quickly sprint off with the students on their back, Zoe quickly shook her head and recovered while turning to Cait "I-I am personally looking forward to it! I have never really got to see a cave up close and you seemed quite excited yourself so I am holding back joining the race and sprinting to the mountain on my own" She joked before walking along side her through the path, with the ringing sound slowly disappearing she watched all the students as they made their way to the mountain slowly adjusting her eyes as they went further out, waiting to see what interesting view spots the spectator group was going to get to witness.

P'atas listened to the country girl speak up introducing themselves.
"Her name was Sarafine. She was such a sweet girl, I wonder what happened to her. She must be an adult by now. She would always come here telling us about her school days" P'atas said wistfully, remembering memories from a long time ago.
He was soon to be interrupted however when Nathaniel Fleetwood entered and spoke the village elder bowing infront of him. P'atas listened to the teachers request, stroking his beard gently as he listened to the teacher. "Hmm, therngrass you say? I suppose that could be arranged. Why don't you come inside to my house and we could talk about a deal. How does some warm pottage sound?" He said leading the way with his cane.

Many imps could be seen looking at the humans strangely, fear and curiosity mixed across various faces. He lended a hand to the girl who plopped down at the grass.
"I know old people can be quite hard to deal with, but I promise that your teacher here has the best intentions for you." He said crouching down offering his hand.

He led the group into a small home centered in the middle of the biggest tree. It was a nice house, abit small but quaint, a kitchen could be seen infront of a dining room and a single bed lay in the corner.

He began washing some potatoes and tossing them into a iron pot infront of the fireplace before pouring some water into the pot and placing it over the fireplace, which he lit with his hands using magic.
"You humans aren't the only ones who use magic, although I guess that's not surprising considering we have our own pocket dimension here." He said stirring the pot.
He pointed to some other vegetables on the dining table, where were sitting in a weaved basket in the middle.
"Would any of you mind grabbing some carrots, onions and bell peppers?" He said.
He continued to stir. "So you're looking for some therngrass. I suppose I wouldn't mind trading some of mine for a good story. It's been awhile since we've had visitors." He said.
"Or perhaps you'd be willing to help me find some missing sheep? Your choice anyways."

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Ezreal and Lorelei shook hands. Ezreal had finished reassembling his watch and ended up putting it away. When he had asked what being on the student council was like, Lorelei thought for abit.
It wasn't like she had been on it too long although everyone seemed to think she was quite good at what she did.
"Well. It's quite a busy time. There's alot of duties to perform so I'm usually swamped between school work and council duties, perhaps you should visit the council sometime?" Lorelei said.
"You feel like going to see the dragon race? I heard some rumors within the council about students getting the chance to visit Cave Lumen."
Lorelei had heard news about the cave sprites that lived within the caves and rumors about a glowing rock.
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