The servants lead the team to their rooms were each were offered their own guest room, he showed them everything that each room had with Levi not once moving from next to Elliot, looking to him out of the corner of his eye. He knew what was going to happen at lights out and he just excepted it as part of his duty of the team.
"Hay Laddy, where's the kitchen." Bolten asked with a slap of his stomach,, "I'm starving and need some fresh meal in me pronto."
"I can show you sir." One of the maids said, curtsying with her short skirt and lead an eager Bolten down the hall. Elliot turned to see Clove had already picked her room, seated on the bed, book in hand and still reading her book.
"Oh Elliot." Levi's voice called out to him and he turned to see her laying in one of the rooms, a lustful smile beckoning him to join her. But something about this town didn't make him feel right and he wanted an answer on some of it.
"Later, I want to explore the city." Elliot said with a wave of his hand, looking at the lead servant that was looking shocked at the request and he pressed forward, "I that okay with the Baren?"
"Well, he didn't say you were bound to the castle, yet I don't see a reason you could want to go out there since we have everything you could need and provide." He spoke in a calm, pleading tone that was clearly begging for him to listen to him and drop his quest to see outside the castle.
"Like holy items?" Vlew cut in looking at the man who turned to look at him for a moment, lowing his head to give them an answer, "Then I will head out to collect items i need and Elliot will help me." Vlex walked with Elliot before the servant could even think of something to stop them stepping out.
Back in the city, Elliot looked around at the market his stomach still feeling uneasy on something looking around at the shops with Vlex looking about with him.
"So, catch anything that's your fancy?" Vlex asked looking at him with a smile as Elliot turned to the elf holy man, memory of the energy he gave off made Elliot build up a question he need to ask before their mission tomorrow.
"Not really, the armor and sword i have should be enough to help us on the quest tomorrow." Elliot said looking around the black smith, seeing the same energy emerge from Vlex, "So, what are you thoughts on our mission?"
"Filthy creatures they are." The venom in Vlex's voice was palpable, making Elliot flinch when he heard it from him, "They worship the Chaos Goddess Nymix and want to ruin the order the All Father worked to make over the centuries with the crooked hands and foul mouths, spitting out the hate of our creator." 'Nymix?' Elliot's mind locked on that name and he racked his head over where he could have heard that name before.
"So, The All Father created us and Nymix made Goblins?" Elliot questioned again, his memory on the All Father teachings hardly there so hearing if from a head holy man could help him. Yet the audible gasps from the crowd over his slip of goblins made everyone look at them confused with many holding their children's hears to protect them from what they hade just heard.
"Why you talk about goblins?" The elderly human merchant asked looking at them behind her fruits, fear in her eyes speaking these words..
"Oh, we are sent by the Baren to handle those filthy creatures for you all." Vlex spoke, his tone returning to his calm tone and the crowd relaxed, smiling and murmuring among themselves with VLex turning back to Elliot, "Come, was there anything you were looking to find or do?"
"N-no nothing. Just wanted to see the city since I hadn't been around to many people who won't Levi." Elliot said rubbing the back of his neck and Vlex nodded looking at him.
"Ah, I understand. Well, I'll be heading to the local branch for extra healing scrolls since I need to cover magic for tomorrow and we are ambushed." Vlex left him with a nod, leaving Elliot there to look things over in the market, looking at the shops and people buying what they were looking for, yet something continued to leave Elliot with a crooked stomach.
"Greetings young man." A voice called out, pulling Elliot to a dark tent with a woman in black standing there. Her body and head covered, preventing him from seeing what race she was, yet her winkled face told him she wasn't an elf, brownie, or dwarf.
"Yes?" Elliot said, the hears on the back of his neck standing on end the longer he looked at her, her ghostly eyes looking to him, seemingly asking him to move closer without words leaving her mouth.
"I couldn't help but not seeing you before this moment." She spoke in a soothing tone with her toothless smile appearing, "I might I ask are you new in town?"
"Uhhh, y-yeah. I am Prince Bradly Squire, here with him." Elliot spoke, seeing her take a long look at him with her eyes before throwing her head back and unleashing a sickly sounding laugh from her throat.
"My, I never thought royalty like that would ever come to our city." She said stepping towards Elliot, who's nerves were getting deeper and deeper in not to be around her. Yet he didn't move when her winkled hand wrapped around his, "Please come, I would love to have you for tea." Elliot tried to think of a way to escape her request only to not speak. Was he under a spell, how could he not be able to fend her off from pulling him into her tent. Stepping in, Elliot saw knick knacks of all kinds, some looking from different lands while others looked to be from long lost times.
"Whoa." Elliot eyes drew to something in the back, a sword sheeted in a black scabbard ornated with gems of all kinds. He moved closer without think, an enticing site of it drew him to it and a hand reached out.
"I wouldn't touch that one if I were you." The old ladies voice pulled his attention from the sword and he turned to see her already having a kettle and cups set with a smile on her face, "The is the Whittle Family Sword, Sakura. It's cursed."
"Curse?" Elliot leapt back from the sword, covering the hand that nearly touched it, "How did you get it."
"Decades of none stop traveling." She said smiling, her winkled hand waving to the chair placed across from her, "Come, cold tea is awful with guests." Elliot looked to the sword, his mind on what she had said and slowly sat down.
"D-do you have any other cursed items?" Elliot asked, looking around while the old lady poured him tea and he turned to see her toothless smile at him.
"Oh, my yes." She said adding a few cubes of sugar to her tea, "Many of the items in this room are cursed, with some able to kill you in an instant if not careful." Elliot jerked his head around the room, looking at many of the things surrounding him and gulped at the thought of dying in this tent. He was so lost, he sipped on his tea to calm himself and looked at the old woman smiling at him.
"S-so, do you sell those cursed items to people or ..." Elliot's mind was too stuck on the cursed items, looking at the old lady with her smiling back at him.
"Oh, no. I'm a fortuneteller by trade." She waved her winkled hand, "I keep these cursed items to keep them from anyone from using them on other, or worse themselves." Elliot released a sigh, finishing his tea and pouring himself another cup.
"So, is this what you do normally when you have a guest. butter them up with tea and then tell them their future?" He asked and the sickly laugh from the old woman seem to be some kind of answer to his question.
"My, what a sharp one." She pointed a finger to him, "but no. I only offer tea to ones that catch my fancy." Elliot bolted up from his seat hearing her words. He was already Levi's plaything, he didn't want to be another woman's one either. The laugh he heard from his actions made his shoulder slump and her hand slapping the table added to hie embarrassment. "Hahahaha, you should have seen the look on your face. It like seeing a banshee proposer go wrong." Her laughter echoing through the tent and Elliot turned away to hide his blush.
"Yeah, very funny." Elliot said sucking in a sharp breath, "I think i might be heading out if that is it."
"Wait, I was telling the truth, but just not what you thought." She put her hand up to stop him and Elliot turned to look at her as she was smiling at him, "You did catch my fancy, but more on what i sense from you."
"Wha,...from me?" Those words threw Elliot for a loop, 'What sense was she talking about.' Elliot thought, sitting back down on the chair and looked at the old lady, "What do you mean." He got a toothless smile and she laid her winkled hands on the table.
"Place your hands on mine and you will see." She said and Elliot looked at those hands, his mind on if he should and shouldn't. Taking a deep breath to steady his nerve, he placed his hands on hers. Instantly, his eyes went blank and has body was jerked wildly, screams and vision filling his mind with what he could tell. Fires engulfing the land with no one living through the great fires with a large being standing over it all, controlling the flames as the screams fell silence, the lives snuffed as if a candle on a desk before bed. Before the figure, Elliot sees six figures covered in shadows as the feet of the giant figure, aiding in the slaughter with Elliot's body falling to the ground. Free from her grasp, Elliot sat on the flood sweat raining down his face and panting, his heart racing faster than any moment in his past as he looked up at the old lady, seeing her looking down to him with a look of concern.
"W-w-w-hat the hell was that?" Elliot asked pulling himself to the seat and drank down some more tea, leaning forward still out of breath from what he had just saw.
"The great destruction you need to stop." She said calming, placing her hands on his shaking ones, "With out your actions, this world will be doomed from The Great Raising."
"T-the Great Raising?" Elliot repeated between pants, sweat running down his face looking at her, "W-what is that?"
"I can't say." She said, turning to the front of the tent, "They are watching you and everything you do?"
"They?" He asked only for her to released another laugh to him and smile at him.
"What great adventures you young people have." She said to Elliot, who looked at her seeing her pleading eyes. Gulping, Elliot felt she was telling the truth and slowly stood up from the floor.
"Yeah, we went on so many adventure." He said looking around and then smiling, "Well, thanks for the tea." Elliot brushed himself off and started to head to the tent's flaps, turning to see the old lady waving him off with him waving back. Back in the market, Elliot's mind was racing with everything he just learned and a throbbing headache making him wince.
"There you are." A voice called out to him and Elliot saw Vlex walking up to him with a bag in hand, "You okay?" Elliot holding his head looked at him smiling and nodded, sincing.
"Yeah, I think i just need a rest." Vlex nodded and they started to walk back to the castle, Elliot still remembering what he was told by the old lady, walking by many residents with the screams in his vision burned into his brain yet he wasn't sure what to do. Seeing the castle looming in distance, Elliot felt something lingering from his visit to the tent and he need information, maybe the Castle's library would help.