Gora and cofus looked horrified for the next 4 hours they did nothing but drill after drill by the time the stone is ready gora and cofus are ying on the floor covered in sweat”rest time is over maggots, stones ready get up and get ready to help us move it.”

  gora and cofus ck the will to refuse the man and quickly get up to help lift the stone. As the mold was removed it left it on a podium that left the sides hanging off allowing them to get under and hold it. 9 people stand around the stone and lift the almost a ton block. With the load split between so many strong people its not the hardest thing in the world but is still no easy task to do.

  No the hardest part lies ahead as they carry the stone slowly uphill for the next hour only able to move at a truly irritating slow pace. Once the stone is finally put back into pce gora and cofus fall over exhausted. Codia looks at them disappointedly”if this is the shape you’re in this upcoming conflict is going to be hard on you two.”

  he says before walking off. Gora stands up furiously”who the hell does he think he is bossing me around like that!?!”

  cofus shushes her fearing that he might be in ear range.”look i think we need to go freshen up im sure the high king will call for everyone ter tonight and we don’t want to show up in clothes that smell like dry sweat”

  Gora sighs, dropping her grudge for now simply nodding her head tiredly as she prepares to follow cofus”fine lead the way to the bath house. Cofus nods and leads the way to the public bathhouse on the pace grounds. The city of Oneidora was built where two rivers merge on both sides allowing for water access throughout the city. Gora was taken in by the stone bathhouse as every inch was filled with steam. It was very different than the wooden bath houses of Sokara.

  Not one to stand around around for long gora quickly takes a bath in the warm waters, then gets redressed in some clothes picked out by servants. She stands in the mirror looking at the astran noble woman dress while it was not a fancy dress it was still much more than gora was accustomed to she winced at seeing the red garment adorn her body.

  She puts all of her old clothes in a satchel that had been adorned on the side of her hip this entire journey. She sighs and looks for cofus her feet still in the sandals she had been wearing before. The spear wrapped around her back. Walking around the bath house with her hair still being wet.

  As she gallivants across the public entrance to the bath house looking for cofus. Many knights and noble snicker at the oddly presented blond woman wearing such an ill fitted outfit. After several minutes of looking for cofus she starts picking up on their snickering confused what about they could possibly be snickering about she starts look closer at everyone and starts to release that her gaze is meeting theirs. They are looking at her and snicker at her.her eyes twitched abit upon this realization.

  Suddenly a hand from behind rest upon her shoulder and a familiar voice speaks out”oh dy grigora i thought that was you i see found a more formal set of clothes how nice did they not give you any shoes dear or pce to put your stuff?”gora looks behind her to see rex! She smiles abit feeling better about their snickering

  “No they did not sir rex i was simply handed this dress and that is all i don’t even know where cofus is we both went into the bath house at the same time but I’ve been looking for him for the past 10 minutes”

  gora compins in a defensive voice trying to raise awareness of their poor hospitality to her. Rex chuckles at this attempt of manipution and gestures for gora to follow him”cofus tends to take long baths we can find him ter at the kings meeting. For now let me show you to your temporary room while you’re staying in this pace’’

  Gora nods following Rex to her temporary sleeping chamber. Rex smiles at gora as they walk”so how are you enjoying the pace dy grigora?”

  she shrugs abit”i don’t know its all very big and fancy but i don’t really care for the people that fill its halls. Everyone seems so up their own ass but i guess i should’ve expected that you are astrans after all” she was a with a bitter tone

  “Oh did their snickering bother you that much dy grigora or did something else happen?”rex ask sounding actually abit curious as to what could upset the princess so much

  “Ugh that stupid drill instructor that i encountered in the training grounds! That asshole ran me ragged for for hours he didn’t let us stop long enough to curse that bastard collia or what ever his stupid name is!”she says out loud hoping by some chance he hears it.

  Rex cant help but burst out into ughter at hearing this. Hes clutching his sides as dy gora just looks at him upset now with a bit of an embarrassed blush on her face”what the hells so funny asshole!”

  she say quite aggressively dropping any form of formality.“Sorry miss grigora you must of had a run in with cofus’s uncle Codia, im truly sorry for your misfortune hes known as a very strict man. When i was a young man hed often torment to such extremes that i don’t think i could survive today”Rex’s voice sound very friendly as he fixes his jacket gora though seems even more rilled up by his response”his uncle huh? I wont have to fight with that bastard will i?”

  she says quite stubbornly Rex cant help but let out another ugh”no he has very little geia hes always just trained his body hard and now that hes older there’s no use of him as a soldier so he spends his time training the younger generation.”he says holding his head high it seems he head a lot of respect for the man.

  Gora scoffs at the attempt to redeem the man”whatever as long as i don’t have to see that bastard again i don’t care”

  Rex smiles bnkly trying to put up with the abuse his mentors reputation is taking. He tries changing the subject”so have you had a chance to try out your weapon miss grigora?”

  She scoffs again and rolls her eyes”ya that’s how i met that asshole to begin with i destroyed one of those dumb blocks and he got pretty pissed off about it”

  Rex looks at her in disbelief how could should be so arrogant”um miss gora those rocks are meant to test the heat of an astrans fme, a high css spear like yours would no doubt chip the rock id say its hardly a practical use of our equipment”

  Gora huffs and looks away from rex”its not my fault i thought the point was to destroy the rock with geia so i destroyed it with geia” gora says quite confidently

  Rex sighs and once again figures its best not to argue with her. They spend the next thirty seconds in silence as they walk to Gora’s room for the moment. As they walked in gora seemed quite happy with the arrangements her bed had a strong wooden frame with some very nice wool-like bnkets she presses down on the bed before sitting on it her expression seems to show much content with the quality of the bed”rex do you have any way i can wash my clothes? It wouldn’t be very proper to wear them in the condition they are now” she says retrieving them from her satchel. Rex looks at them and nods”yes don’t worry ill call for a water maiden right away”

  He pulls on a little bell on the side of the wall within the minute a woman with strands of blue hair mixed with bcks one. You called sir?”

  she says looking at rex. Equipped outfit be a dark linen servants gown she looks at rex abit nervelessly. Gora gnces at her ankle noticing the mark of a sve on her. Gora is quite upset by seeing this but doesn’t say anything for now”servant can you wash dies Grigora’s clothes?”

  the servant nods and bows taking Gora’s clothes and pulls a tub from underneath a counter getting on her knees she starts summoning water from the palms of her hands. pushing the water into the clothing soaking them in the quickly evaporating liquid made from her geia. Her hair loses a few strands of blue as they turn pitch bck. after a few minutes she pulls the clothing out of the tub and raises them up to gora.

  They’d already be dry and even more important clean! Gora grabs her clothing and looks amazed”oh my I’ve heard that those with water geia are often kept as servants i didn’t realize its because of such useful skills”

  gora says trying her best to show empathy to the indentured servant. Rex nods and sends the servant off”well ill let you get acquainted the high king shall want to see us all in a few hours. so make sure to make your way to the throne room dy grigora”

  she nods and politely as she can gestures for rex to leave so that she change back into her preferred outfit”OK rex thank you very much ill do just that ill see you ter then bye bye”

  practically pushing him out of the room she closes the door right behind him. With a heavy sigh she ys back against the door a moment before getting redressed.

  It had been an exhausting st few days and she knows the worst has yet to come so after getting dressed she just ys on the bed for a moment ying their peacefully before getting up and getting ready to hear the king. She puts all of her drakkite jewelry back onto her body. then fastens the spear to her back. Looking at the red dress with much distaste. Throwing it into the tub where the maid had just cleaned her clothes. she points a single finger at it and zaps it causing it to catch fire. She watches with much delight as it burns safely inside the metal tub.

  She waits until the st of the embers burn out before leaving the room once out she makes her way to the grand throne room of the high king to soon learn her pce in this on coming war