Siegismund escorted Arlo to a door at the right of the gate and had opened it, it was a shortcut to the castle. After a longer walk than Arlo expected, they arrived at a part of the castle where the royalty didn't live, so that they wouldn't disturb anyone and ended up in a hallway eventually. inside the hallway they continued walking forward and Siegismund had stopped on the 4th door to knock on it.
*Knock* *knock* *knock*
A medium pitch male voice was heard from the other side of the door "Come in, the door is unlocked"
"Hello Baldwin, sorry for asking this late at night, but someone wants to create an id plate" said Siegismund with slight hesitation.
Inside the room was an office and in front of them was a tired looking person, sitting on a chair beside a desk with a lot of paperwork stacked on top of it. The person had short salt and pepper hair with bags under his eyes. He also had glasses hanging towards the bottom of his nose and a three day beard. The desk was facing them and there was a large window behind it. Arlo looked at the reflection of himself from the window and he saw a decently good looking guy, with short hair as black as his bones and violet purple eyes.
"Don't worry I still have some time before my shift ends" said Baldwin with a forced smile.
*Baldwin made a motion telling Arlo to sit down*
"Alright mister, why don't you take a seat and I'll give you the test sheet"
The test sheet that Baldwin gave Arlo was filled with generic questions like "Are you staying here for work. If yes, write down what job you'd like to apply for" and some basic math problems as well. It was quite easy for Arlo, so it hadn't taken him long to finish and hand the test over to Baldwin.
"Um… Sir, you forgot to write your name on the sheet. Just tell me and I'll write it down myself" said Baldwin wanting to finally go home.
Arlo was in deep thought while Baldwin was asking him "I bet Krause would be so proud of me getting this far by myself" He was too busy daydreaming to hear Baldwin.
"SIR, YOUR NAME" shouted Baldwin with anger.
"KArlose" said Arlo by mistake while thinking of Krause.
"Carlos?" Asked Baldwin questioningly.
"Alright how about your last name?" Asked Baldwin being in a rush to get this over with and go home.
"Wait, there been a mista" said Arlo before getting cut off.
"I SAID LAST NAME" said Baldwin with pure anger.
At the other side of the castle there was an assassin on a guard tower, aiming his crossbow at Baldwin through the large window. He had heard the loud sound of Baldwin's rage and got startled, shooting his arrow by accident, the arrow had missed Baldwin, but was heading straight for Arlo's heart
"Alright my last name is Wolfga- OUCH!!!!" said Arlo while getting pierced by the arrow.
"ok, Carlos Wolfcow. Now get out, I need some sleep!!! The id plate will be done tomorrow afternoon" said Baldwin while pushing Arlo out.
"Can you believe that guy, Krause. That jackass gave me a stupid name. Ahh whatever, it's better to keep my identity a secret" said Arlo while letting out a small chuckle.
Baldwin was too much in a rush to ask for the payment so Arlo figured he'd pay him tomorrow.
Siegismund had approached Arlo and had noticed the arrow hanging out of his chest but hadn't asked him about it and tried to ignore it. He spoke to Arlo and told him that he couldn't go to a tavern or inn unless he officially had his id plate. He looked sorry for Arlo but those were the rules. Arlo went back outside of the kingdom and just sat on the sand looking up at the sky until he saw the night turn into day. Siegismund saw him still sitting there by his next shift and felt extremely guilty.
It had finally become afternoon and Arlo had went to the guards at the front gate again and had asked them to bring him to Baldwin for his id plate. The guards obliged and bought him back to Baldwin's office.
Inside the office he saw Baldwin, but after he had greeted him, he noticed that his attitude had completely changed. Not only that but his appearance had also changed. his beard was shaved and the bags under his eyes were gone too.
"Good afternoon mr. Wolfcow, here's your name plate. By the way I forgot to ask for the payment yesterday" said Baldwin with a bit of embarrassment.
Baldwin handed over the name plate and Arlo handed over the 2 gold and 5 silver after.
"Sir that's too much, were you perhaps looking for the deal with access to the adventurer's guild?" said Baldwin while feeling sorry for rushing it yesterday.
Arlo had thought that Alfreda gave him too much, but after some more thought, he was thinking "maybe she gave me this much on purpose? Did she want me to join the adventurer's guild?"
Arlo had accepted the offer and had used up all his money on it. Baldwin had told him that it would just take a few more hours until the altered name plate was done. Arlo had waited in the hall outside of Baldwin's office until the name plate had finished. Once it was done, Baldwin had called him over to pick it up. He had finally gotten his name plate, the shape was rectangular, It was small enough to be held in his palm, the material it had been made out of looked silver and there were thorn like patterns on the edges. In the middle was his name "Carlos Wolfcow".