[h3][color=black][b]Earthland - Phoenix Wing Guild Hall[/b]
Rutger Artz[/color][/h3]

Rutger reigned himself in immediately, crushing down the leaking power into the pit of his gut until he felt nauseous. Of course. He didn't have a lot of room to talk. The Slayer magics...even after a hundred years, when the world was finally beginning to recover from the stigma against magic, the art of the Slayers was now seen as a dark, dangerous magic above all. Phoenix Wing was not the first guild he had been to, and Magnolia not the first town he had passed through. Everywhere else, he had been turned away once they knew of his magic. Would Jamie do the same? Would he once again be turned out and left to wander, until the power became too much and he finally destroyed himself?

"I...I didn't learn this magic with the intent to kill or destroy." he said finally, mustering up his courage before he looked at Vincent. "And that's why I'm here now, seeking a Guild to teach me to control it. But you, you let yourself fall into darkness. No wonder you think everyone's rotten--that's all you've ever seen of the world! What was stopping you from leaving that orphanage and, instead of delving into the underbelly of the world, just going and seeking normal work like everyone else?"

The strain of controlling his magic made him stop for breath, but Jamie took up where he left off...and then, there was a surge of energy somewhere else in the building. Rutger looked up as a new man appeared, one who seemed to know the Master. They must have been another Guild Member, using a transportation Lacrima perhaps?

"Um, I'm Rutger, sir." he said to Damian. "I promise I didn't have anything to do with all this. I came here intending to join, but I found all of this. From what we can tell so far, there was some kind of fight with...a woman, you said Master Jamie? And after that we don't know. But if you and the Master both got here via transportation Lacrima, that must mean they're fairly common in this guild, correct? Could it have been some kind of wide range use of the lacrima, or a malfunction?"