Rookta,
5 months prior to Ion Paige dissappearance.
Hello, I am Dandelion Paige but I will love ot if people eliminate the word D.A.N.D.E if they decided to call out my name. I know the meaning of my name is not that bad, I like it since my mother named me because she was in a dandelion field when her water broke,
But I am officially 17 this month. The age of when people won't judge you if you drink a wasting liquids the adults named wine, booze or beer, not that I never try any of those I do get drunk before meeting new people and getting a girlfriend, so that is why I am going to go back home next year!!
Though I have another reason why am I declining to go home to torture Ashley a bit for taking away something precious to me.
Rokta is not scarry as I assumed it would be, since I don't tolerate and talk that much to people unless I like them, Rookta people shared the same personality as me. But most importantly, this place is food paradise!
"Regardless of that, what should I do right now?" It took 3 days for him to get to Rookta by train, he was exited as soon he left the station.
Either way, he lost his way searching for the Inn he reserved couple of days before he go for Rookta. When he found it, the owner shoo him away because he did not have paige family crest to prove his identity as Dandelion Paige.
"I am a Paige, I reserved this in under Dandelion Paige 2 weeks ago in a full payment how could you just kick me out with no reason?" Jugding on how the staff were inspecting inch of his body as if remembering his physic he clicked his tongue out of frustation.
"Name has no genders gentlemen, and I insist for you to let me in for the night and I won't tell my father about this" the male staff objected him and made the guards dragged him away from the Inn. He hugged the flower vase at the reception caunter.
"From what I know, paige didn't have any boys in their household except for the first born. According to the rumor, he is in the middle 20s and is tall as a giant, but you look like a petty shrimp" The Bald manager that had just arrived for his morning duty shoved Ion Paige from the caunter.
"What?" The boy face was so red that he became speehless.
"Cat got your tongue boy? You think this cheap ass trick dying your hair pink will succeed?" The bald manager poked Ion's forehead to every sentences.
No one ever poked his forehead before, clueless on how to react, he just stand still and do nothing.
The bald manager, got a sudden gooseebump when there's a slight changes in the boy's eyes as if he was observing him up close.
The bald manager ended his humilitian with a slap on Ion's shoulder. He noticed this boy had blue eyes, and it crystal clear to be imbueded by magis, this boy might be a paige.
"Ehem, Rookta has no laws, but every places exist in it has it own young man, come again with your family crest, we will make sure to compesete you with all we can" The bald manager changes to a respectul tone causing the staffs mumbling to each other.
"Is he indeed a Paige? What do we do? I shouted at him before" Ion heard the staff, so he look at him.
Then, the people next to him, after that he stares the worried receptionist that had been looking at the floor for a while now.
"Bloody bastard." Ion Paige grit his teeth, the boy fix his bag. Taking a long breath and sighed. 'I need to calm down'
"Stupid little shithead, you belittle me, you belittle my family, I have set on what to do to all of you fucker that wasted my time today." He came to the inn bowing to the receptionist with a cheerful high pitch voice, so he decided to leave this in oppositely.
"I choose to visit this place to honour the relationship of my father with this Inn's owner, yet you wanted to smear my good intentions with humiliation?" The owner of the inn was a good friend to his father during their teenage year,
Paige is one of the main sharehold to this Inn so sometimes there is no need for them to do any reservation. So paige family member will come only by paige family crest to be serve.
"Young master?" Patrick was in his office this entire time and did not bother to meddle to the ruckus downstairs. Until a staff asked him to identify a person called Dandelion Paige.
"Lovely day sir," Ion Paige smile again and greet Patrick whose pale in the middle of the stairs.
"Great seeing you too, but I am afraid I must leave since this place did not considered me to a son of my father just because I made a reservation" Patrick gave a deadly stare at the bald manager and the receptionist. How could they never informed this reservation to him?
"What to do? I thought Sir Patrick would recognized me and would welcome me with a warm hug? But I am afraid I must leave now"
"Goodbye" three drops of gold coins drop out from the primrose sachet from his chest pocket when he bown down.
It was a rare case to see a pure gold coins this days. The people who has it in their belonging are people whose is not afraid of losing it, Patrick is the wealthiest man in here but he keep his gold coins somewhere else.
"Oh.. shoot," Ion paige bow down again to pick up the coin. More and more coins drop out of his fund.
"Erghh.." A male's hand with a silver ring on his index finger pick it from before Ion paige and gave it to him.
"Oh. Thank you sir" he smiled to the black hair man who he believe the guest here. He is the man that was watching him from the start just as he entered the Inn.
"It's a pure gold"
"This place has no laws pink hair sir you better be careful," Ion Paige frowned when the customer call him that way. He let is slide since the customer call him a sir instead of a young kid.
Other than that, he too noticed few eyes frequently scanning him from top to bottom. Ion Paige knew it was a tough and a dumb decision bringing too much gold coins into Rookta. He is curious what will happen to him.
"I have a name"
"I know, but I rather not say it" The customer quit talking and just staring at his youthful appearance.
"I don't think I am in a position to say that to you Young Master Paige. You sure you know how to take care of yourself" the customer tapped the finger that has the ring on Ion Paige shoulder, chest, hip, his bag and lastly his shoes,
Ion Paige amazed that his eyebrows lifted. Those direction is exactly where he hid his primrose sachet.
"You can have it" Ion Paige shoved three gold coins back to the customer, the people in the lobby gasping when they saw that.
1 gold coins in this region is equal to 50 0000 silver coins and 3 added to that, they envied the customer.
"Ehem" the customer clear his throat did not expecting such thing happened. It was not his intention to get an easy luxury like this. But it will be a shame if he return it since he need money to stay alive.
Ion smile. The customer intentionally raised his voice to let others know that he is form a renowned household, someone that cannot be taint.
Other than the gold coind his rosegold hair is what attracted them the most, if it's not for his physic he would be wronged as a girl since his voice haven't change yet.
The customer go back to his belonging, Ion Paige were curious to several items the customers put on his desk. He crossed his arms.
"I don't receive something for free, it is a give and take. So please take this and enjoy" Ion Paige frowned. But he take the box with a Wisteria Pattern leaves carved at the edges of the box unwillingly.
"It's light- what is it?" The box is still in the air as he was hoping the customer would take it back.
"Arggh, my apologize something like this is not equal to what you gave me," The customer who has not introduced himself this entire conversation got shy. He touched the middle of his nosebrige to hid his blushing face.
Ion Paige gigled because it was very obvious since the customer is pale although the surrounding is not that cold. Is he sick?
"How rude of me to toss away something given to me, thank you" The box was not that big. It length was 1 feet long and fits into his palm perfectly.
"Do come with me young master Dandelion, We have prepared the room you aksed for" The bald manager got between.
"Tsk" Ion Paige clicked his tongue.
"It's Ion Paige. Call me Ion" It seems like Partick did not bother by his existence at all because that man rolled his and go back into his office.
"Follow me young master Ion" Ion Paige slide his backpack to the front and put the box inside.
"I did not know his name" Ion Paige look around but that customer's sit is vacant.
"That man Is a merchant. He display few of his items in this inn and will come once in a month to collect his payment" The receptionist girl answered his question.
"What is his name?" Ion still searching for him through the see through glass of this Inn hoping he could tracked that customer.
His grumpy face was in joy when he saw that customer is within his reach. 'Thank goodness he made a stop at jewelry shop? What is he doing there?'
"Young master? Wait- where are you going?" The Bald manager did not realized he was walking by himself and Ion Paige declining their servives with a hadwritten paper.
To be in this Inn carving out my sense of immorality, losing my social battery, thus suitable to be dwell by ignorant and beggars because it is full with stupid and ugly looking staffs, especially the man with a bright shining skull with a moustache of a rat.
"What the hell is this? I am what?" The furious bald Manager threw the paper into a trash can. He is even mad that he instantly knew whose characteristic at the end of the letter.