[b]E’nasha and Joseph[/b] (Vesuvius00 and Lucius Cypher)

E’nasha took a deep breath as she left the room, holding the folders tightly so she wouldn’t drop any of the papers inside. After looking down the hallway in each direction, she chose a path and started walking, silently cursing herself for not at least asking the directions to the other teacher’s office. 

There was some chatting in one of the office. Inside the partially open door was a small snow elf, talking to El’kan. He was helping him do his paperwork knowing how Lucilia loves to bog people down with piles upon piles of documents. Joseph heard some footsteps coming through the hall and barely missed E’nasha walking on by. “Ah! E’nasha!” 

When she heard someone say her name, E’nasha stopped walking and looked around to see the Snow Elf from before and El’kan in one of the offices. “Oh there you are!” She said, smiling at them. She took one of the folders and handed it to El’kan. “Lucilia gave me this one for you.” 

El’kan took the folder, looked at it a moment, and then hugged E’nasha with no warning. “I was so worried about you! Even after Sir got back with your necklace I still worried.” He let go of her and smiled. 

Joseph was happy to see E’nasha alive and well, jumping over his tall desk to get to them. As a snow elf, he was barely up to E’nasha’s waist. “I’m sorry I was too late. I hope the roc didn’t hurt you too much?” Joseph looked concerned despite E’nasha’s obvious safety. 

“It’s ok, I’m fine. I blacked out on the way to its nest and then it pretty much ignored me because of the group that was there.” E’nasha smiled at the teacher. “It doesn’t matter if you were too late, the point is that you tried.”

Joseph looked down and rubbed his head. “Thank you. As a teacher of hydromancy, I had thought I could have done more for you. Well, regardless I’m glad you’re safe. But not from Lucilia’s paperwork I see! That woman, I swear she likes to bury us all in bureaucracy. Would you like me to help you look through that? I helped El’kan with most of his, and I’m sure I can help you right quick.” 

“Thanks! I appreciate it.” She laughed a little and looked to El’kan. “If you’ve got most of it done already then it can’t be too bad.” 

He made a face at her and held up the folder she had handed him. “Yea, but you just gave me even [i]more[/i] to do!” E’nasha just barely stifled a laugh. 

The laughter spread to Joseph, and he chuckled as he crawled up into his chair behind his desk. “Well, pull up a chair. I’ll help you figure out what you need to sign and what’s a trap that Lucilia likes to lay down to get you caught in a tricky deal. A lot of her rules and clauses will refer back to things a few pages back, and that always catches people off guard.” Joseph put on his thinking cap and inked his pen. From the blade stains on the side of his hand, he’s been doing this recently as well.