Virtus got up and left as another guard came and relieved him from his post. The sun was gone and it was a little nippy out, but Virtus didn't care, normally about this time he would head to the Inn but he wasn't in the mood for crowds right now. So instead he walked to the lake, the jewelry shop girl, by the divine dragons Virtus couldn't remember her name and it was on the tip of his tongue, was it Marcy? that didn't sound quite right, Mara? No that didn't quite sound right either, then it hit him like a ton of bricks Meara! That was her name. He felt quite proud of himself for remembering her name. But he should of remembered it sooner because she's been here longer than most. As she had been here when he arrived, but he never did have a need for jewelry. But despite everything his mind kept wandering back to when he arrived.

[b] Spring 10th, A year ago. [/b]

[i] Virtus had been on the run for weeks. He had just escaped the Sechs empire after their mad emperor swore to torture every Earthmate they came across, at the time Virtus had been unlucky enough to be there when he proclaimed it. They caught him and they lived up to their promise, when the break out happened he ran for it and didn't look back. Now though he wasn't so sure where he was or if he was still in Sechs Territory, but by pure mistake he found the town Slysian, at first he was nervous about heading in just in case he still was in Sechs territory. But hunger and dehydration pushed him into the town.

He didn't even make it into town, he passed out at the entrance exhausted, and hungry, Virtus did not know what happened next though he assumed someone found him and brought him to the doctors, as he woke up in the doctors office people asked him questions about who he was and what he did. He told them, but when the pressed him about how he came to the town he did not answer he remained tight lipped and defiant about telling people.

After the doctors office he stayed at the inn. He could of left and never looked back but instead for some reason he stayed and even till this day he does not understand why. but eventually he was welcomed. He was even allowed to take over a farm after he told someone that he grew up on a farm, and there he made a home for himself a home he would not give up for all the world. [/i]

Virtus loved looking back at his arrival here and finding a home here, he could do without what happened before but without it he never would of found this place, but he shouldn't be so easily trapped by his memories and thoughts so he shrugged them off picked up a pebble and skipped it across the lake it skipped once,twice,three times before finally sinking below the surface of the lake.