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

While Rutger continued to clean up, Damien answered his question and Vincent asked another, regarding what had happened. Edolas...Rutger had read a few books speculating about it, whether or not it really existed, whether Fairy Tail's account of it could be trusted, and other things like that, but he had never heard of a book written by Fairy Tail themselves on it. That...that had to be Lucy Heartfilia, or Levy McGarden. Both of them were known to have had a penchant for writing about their adventures with the guild. Rutger's eyes clouded over as he continued cleaning, though a bit more distracted than before and twice as slowly. When he thought about books, his expression became dreamy and flushed.

Then he remembered something, some tidbit he'd picked up somewhere. There had been some kind of accusation that, if Edolas was real, it was too conveniently "evil" to allow the guild of Fairy Tail--known for its own deliquency--to play the role of heroes. That same accuser had gone on to outline what they had learned about the Fairy Tail-Edolas incursion, though obviously they were biased...What line was it that was nagging at Rutger's memory so?

[i]Turning people into Lacrima to power their weaponry and other magic devices? What kind of storybook bad guys even are these that Fairy Tail has concocted? The sheer inhumanity of the thing, as well as the impossibility! Lacrima are crystals formed and mined from the earth! To convert organic substances into their structure would require...[/i]

"Master!" Rutger suddenly spoke up. "I don't know the full details about Fairy Tail's travels to Edolas, but I've read some books denouncing them. One of them mentioned that, according to Fairy Tail, Earthland Magic Users were somehow being turned into Lacrima to power Edolas' lack of magic! What if the other guild members are in danger of that?"