Chapter 188: 188
"Thank you for lunch Mr and Miss Carvell . " We all thanked them as I nudged Helen to help pick up the plates .
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"Oh, you don't have to . " Miss Carvel instinctively said, seeing us helping to clear up .
"It's nothing . " We both smiled to her before taking the plates to the sink .
"Um, just leave them in the sink, I'll wash them later . " Miss Carvell asked us .
"Thanks," Helen whispered to me .
"No problems I've got you're back always . " I smiled .
"So What are you guys going to do next?" Mr Carvell asked .
"Hmm probably book some rooms at the local inn . " We answered .
"Jay make sure you go with them! Five girls at an Inn by themselves . " Miss Carvel instructed him .
"You know these aren't ordinary Girls . . they are Atlantis Students . " Mr Carvell laughed .
"Dad's not wrong mum, these girls are capable . Especially Daisy every day she wears that plate armour and carrying her heavy maul . " Jay smiled .
"Still . . I don't feel safe having 5 girls staying at an inn especially with the Vancliffs being here . " She replied .
"Sure mum I'll rent a room with them . " He answered .
"Sperate room . " She corrected him .
"Yes yes mum, separate room of course . " He replied like this wasn't the first time this happened . "Come on, guys I'll take you to the local Inn where we'll be spending the night," Jay instructed .
"Thank you for your hospitality . " We all bowed in respect . The others went to retrieve their weapons .
"No, thank you all for coming . " Jay's mum hugged Helen making her smile and embrace her back and waved us all goodbye . "Remember to stop by tonight for dinner!" She reminded us before we left .
"So these Vancliffs really that bad?" I questioned .
"Don't jump the gun when it comes to the Vancliffs . . they are rich and powerful here," Jay replied .
"I'm just curious besides we're Atlantis student we have to make sure we can't bring a bad name to Atlantis," I replied .
"The Vancliff family owns most of the guards and probably have most families and men on their paycheck, it's a family we really don't want to mess with," Jay warned us looking very serious .
"That explains why that Vancliff girl came and knew you arrived," Helen replied .
"Well, if I see any injustice, I'm not going to sit back and do nothing," Daisy informed Jay .
"Don't . . . like I said they have the guards on a paycheck you're going to end up getting yourself arrested it's a fight you can't win," Jay warned her .
"Then I'll beat up the corrupt guards!" Daisy replied, flexing her muscles, ignoring Jay's warnings .
"You know . . Paul would probably dislike it if he heard you breaking the law . " I informed Daisy making her expression flip 180 .
"Oh, Daisy . " Grace laughed .
"So what did the Vancliff girl really want?" I asked Jay .
"Nothing honestly just wanted to see how I was doing . " He replied .
"So who is she and what's our history?" I questioned .
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"She was the other student of my first Mentor . We were just friends until her family found out and forbid her to interact with us and was forced to stop learning magic . " He answered .
"Interesting . . " I answered .
"Yeah, she wanted some spellbooks so she could train in secret . " He answered .
"And you told her no, right?" I asked him, assuming it would be dangerous to learn on your own without a mentor or teacher .
"I said I'll try but no promises . " He answered .
"So how many big is this Vancliff family?" Helen asked .
"Their name controls a good portion of the lands around here, but this family has a mum, dad, daughter and two sons," Jay answered .
"How old?" Grace questioned .
"Forget them . . the more important issue is finding out who this 'Guardian angel Mr Wayne' is and what he has planned for my family . " Jay changed the subject .
"I'm sure there's nothing nefarious going on," I answered hiding the truth so Jay doesn't feel indebted to Paul since he finds it so hard to accept goodwill from other .
"I know deals like that never play out well," Jay replied, looking determined to find the truth .
"I'm sure you're right Jay . . but remember what your parents said at first he wanted to do it all for free . " Grace reminded him .
"No one does things out of the goodness of their hearts, there's always an agenda . " He answered .
"That's not true . . you even saw it yourself Paul, Scarlet and Ashley do things expecting nothing in return . " I defended Paul .
"That's not true . . Paul runs on a favour for favour basis, Scarlet does it because she loves the thrill of a fight and Ashley might do it for fame or money . " He answered .
"No no . . you got it the wrong way," I answered him but found it hard to refute his argument .
"Anyway forget this topic, we're at the inn . " He said opening the doors to a mediocre Inn .
"What can I do you for kids?" The man at the bar answered us as we entered .
"We're looking for, wait what size rooms do you have?" He questioned the barman .
"We have singles and doubles . 10 silver pieces for a double and 5 silver pieces for a single per night . " The Barman answered .
"We'll take three doubles for one night," Jay answered .
"Sure that will be 30 silver pieces . " The Barman requested .
"Here you go . " Jay paid the barman as he wrote something down and passed him three keys . "Oh Emilia, here's your bag, thanks for the help . " He smiled, passing back my bag .
"Anytime . " I smiled back .
"So I assume Helen and Grace will bunk up . Now the question is Morgana, where would you like to go?" Jay questioned .
"I'll join Emilia and Daisy, I'll take the couch . " She answered .
"Sure, here are your keys," Jay said passing us our keys .
"We'll be back tonight," Jay answered .
"Sure . " the barman replied and went back to reading .
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"anything else we can do?" I questioned Jay as we exited the Inn .
"Good question . . there's not much to do here sadly . " Jay said, looking around .
"Ah, our esteemed guests . " A very cultured voice spoke out towards us . "Hello hello, Edward Vancliff . " An older plump, very cultured man wearing a finely woven dark black checkered suit with a long black cane with a big jewel-encrusted on the top, introduced himself to us with an outstretched hand . One by one we introduced ourselves to Edward Vancliff shaking his hand . "So the talk of the town is that you all are Atlantis students," Edward asked .
"Yes, we are," we answered him with a smile .
"That's amazing . . what do you all do?" He questioned cautiously .
"I'm a Sorcerer," Jay answered him, making Edward look at him with a raised eyebrow like he was trying to remember where he's seen his face or name .
"Have we met before? You look mighty familiar . " He said slowly, shaking his hand .
"I do? Maybe I just have a common look . " Jay replied, hiding his identity .
"Say son what's your name again? I didn't quite catch it . " He asked again .
"Caleb Willowghast . " Jay answered .
"Sorry, son my error maybe just my old age playing tricks on me . " He chuckled, letting go of jay's hand .
"If you all got some spare time, maybe you'd like to visit my estate . " He invited us with a smile .
"We were planning to see the rest of the town first . " I casually declined his offer .
"Really?" He asked looking at me closely, at me closely .
"Well, we have a town gathering tomorrow at lunch, everyone's going to be there, come on by if you're free . " He said tipping his hat towards us and walked off .
"he doesn't seem all that bad," Morgana said after he disappeared into the city .
"That's what they always seem on the outside, Friendly and harmless on the outside but scheming and nefarious on the inside," Jay replied to her .
"Come this way guys got some stuff I need to buy," Jay said leading the way .
"Oh, shopping?!" Daisy asked in excitement .
"Sure," Jay answered .
After a small walk, we arrived at a marketplace filled with stalls, merchants and small vendors .
"Oh!" Daisy instantly ran to a jewellery stall .
"What ya looking at?" I said, leaving the others to join her .
"Earrings!" she smiled, lifted them up to her ears to check them in a mirror .
"Oh!" Bracelet's she looked at them equally excited .
"What do you think about the brow leather one?" Daisy said pointed out .
"The one plane one that looks like a bunch of leather wrapped around repeatedly?" I questioned .
"Yah!" She smiled .
"A little boyish no?" I questioned .
"I'll take that one, please!" She smiled at the old lady manning the stall .
"Sure thing, anything else young girl?" the old woman asked .
"And these please!" Daisy picked out a simple small amber stud .
"Sure thing . " The old lady answered bagging them for her, "15 silver please . " She requested .
"Thank you!" Daisy smiled counting out 20 silver pieces and handing it to her, "And may Serra's Blessings be upon you . " She smiled and pulled me to the next stall .
"Thank you!" The only lady tried to thank Daisy before she rushed to the next open stall .
"Do you want to buy anything?" Daisy asked me .
"I'm not sure, I'm not feeling it with this jewellery," I said, looking around at the merchandise .
"Next one?" Daisy asked with a giant smile, pulling me to the next stall .
"Hmm not here either . " I looked at a stall of the most random stuff . "Oh, follow me!" I said to Daisy, pulling her towards a stall that had a pleasant mixture of smells coming .
"What's this?" She asked, looking at the filled bottles with liquid inside .
"This young girl . . are perfumes! Helps enhance the smell of you . " A very extravagant tall man answered her, with a very foreign accent, that looked like the same race as Daisy but had a dull red skin and different type of horns .
"Can we smell?" I asked him politely .
"Of course," he replied with very extravagant gestures .
"What are these made from?" I questioned smelling each bottle finding quite a few very pleasant smelling .
"These are all made from a complex blend of scents from all over the land ranging from essences of flowers or tree sap and some even the pheromones of creatures in heat . " He smiled, proud of his craft .
"And you make all this yourself?" I questioned .
"Yup the bottles you find here you won't find anywhere . " He smiled .
"I'll take this one please!!!" Daisy said holding up a bottle .
"Fine choice, that would be 35 silver pieces . " The man smiled .
"Thank you!" Daisy smiled, handing him the gold .
"If you don't mind me asking where are you from?" He asked, looking at her .
"I can't remember," Daisy answered him .
"Because your skin is quite unique . . I've never seen our kind with blue skin . " He looked at her closely, very intrigued .
"Have you seen a lot of our kind?" Daisy asked curiously .
"Why yes I have . . . I've travelled all throughout Amias and other continents as well and not once have I come across someone as unique as you . " He answered .
"I'll take this one . " I requested taking a bottle that smelt really pleasant, similar to the perfume I'd use myself back at home .
"Splendid choice! That one will be 30 silver pieces . " He smiled, bagging our bottles for us .
"Pardon my nosiness, but do you happen to be from Zakshara?" He asked me politely handing me the bag, making me look at him utterly confused . "It's a continent very far away from here the humans there are normally browned skinned such as yourself . " He smiled .
"I actually have no idea, I was abandoned as a child . " I lied to him .
"Ohh darling, I'm so sorry to hear that . . . " He replied, placing a hand on his heart .
"I haven't see you both around town, did you both arrive today?" he questioned curiously .
"Yes, we came today to visit a family . " I smiled back .
"Oh, nice nice . " He smiled, handing us our bottles .
"thank you for the perfume . " I thanked him .
"Thank you! May the blessings of Serra be upon you!" Daisy thanked him and we left his stall together .
"Am I really that unique?" Daisy questioned curiously .
"Apparently so . . everyone seems to always ask about our skin colour . " I chuckled .
"Hey, guys!" Grace yelled out to us in the middle of the marketplace .
"Oh, one second I need to find something," I said grabbing Daisy's arm giving Helen and grace a sign to give us one minute .
"What do we need?" Daisy asked .
"Hmm did you see any stall that sells baking ware?" I questioned Daisy .
"Oh, yeah, Follow me . " Daisy led me to a stall with loads of pots and pans .
"Hello young misses can I interest you in anything?" A man with burly arms wearing an apron looking like a blacksmith asked with a giant smile .
"Yes I need bakeware, can I have one of those Wood peels, four loaf tins, two metal pots with the handles, oh and . . . two brushes please . " I requested .
"Woah so much . . planning to open your own bakery?" he chuckled, packing my thing .
"It's a gift . " I smiled at him .
"Well, they are very lucky to know you . " He smiled .
"Are they good quality?" I questioned .
"You won't find better anywhere in the land . " He chuckled .
"Great, I'll take your word for it . How much?" I smiled .
"That would be 1 gold and 14 silver . " He requested .
"Sure keep the change . " I smiled, giving him two gold .
"Why thank you kindly, miss . " He smiled, handing over my goods .
"Daisy help hold this for me, please," I asked her to hold the bag which I slipped all the items one by one into my bag of holding making the blacksmith go completely silent in shock .
"Thank you! They better be the best in the land!" I joked walking away thanking him .
"Why did you buy so much?" Daisy questioned .
"Because where I come from . . it's nice to get gifts for people . " I smiled .
"Oh, I see . . . You're so kind-hearted!" She nodded smiling as we retraced our steps to meet Grace and Helen .