[b][i]Ashton Andrews and Flame Brooks[/i][/b]

Ashton smiled at Kimura, before saying, "The way I see it, you're a brave person, willing to face death as long as it's from the legitimate authorities. Quite a contrast to my boyfriend; he'd mouth off to anyone trying to take him away if given the chance - he's the type to presume himself innocent before being 'proven' guilty. And you have a point; we weren't pre-detained when that Witch Hunter..." Ashton remembered trying to explain things to Mono before being struck with sudden shock and fear, and his voice lowered to a whisper, "When that Witch Hunter ordered us all killed; we were ran through with swords shortly after your first death."

The whisper continued; hopefully no one was eavesdropping. "Kimura, I also encountered something interesting; whenever we try and tell people -the natives of this place - about being transported here by 'Talus', we're overcome by a mental block of fear. And by we, I mean me, but with the presumption that this applies to all of us 'isekai-ers'."

And with that, Ashton turned back to the confrontation between Aer and Mist, where the latter was trying to resolve things through compromise. That latter part was actually impressive, and it seemed that they'll all be going to the authorities together. Who knows, perhaps with two strong 'patrons' vouching for the party, they might not die this time.

[i]I wish that Scandinavian woman could be here to see things improve...[/i] Ashton said as he walked beside Kimura and the others - including a now-helpful [i]Wisp[/i] (he had mistaken his name for Mist earlier) - deeper into what seemed to be a high-class commercial district, filled with fancy stores. Ashton noticed from the unusual cleanliness and lack of open sewers (like in IRL medieval cities) that magic and/or magitech must be at work. This bore thinking about, especially if they were going to be in this city for a long time.

It was then that another sign emerged that things were improving; a wagon belonging to one 'Doctor Donovan' rolled into the district, dropping off a rich youth, a [i]priest[/i] and [i]Flame[/i] onto the streets.

Before anyone can stop him, Ashton leapt towards the redhead, a smile on his face as he tackle-hugged him, shouting his boyfriend's name as he did so. "Flame!" Ashton was now crying as he affectionately continued his embrace. "I'm so glad to have you back!"

"Please, not here!" Flame said awkwardly, a side he rarely revealed. "We're in public and there's a priest and well..." His voice drew into a whisper, "We're being pursued by the authorities; gotten killed once, too."

Ashton's posture turned rigid, then, as rage filled him. "It happened to us as well; don't get angry, Flame. Right now, we've got two people offering to vouch for us, and they're our best bet to not be hunted down. Even then..."

Flame interrupted him with another whisper, "It's a long shot." He then gently pushed Ashton away, before saying, "Are we going to tell the truth? About coming from... An impossible place?" Looking at Ashton, the redhead saw the truth. "Ash, you're too trusting. Our story is too improbable even for these medieval fantasy people; they won't believe it." A sigh, "But if you want to do it, I won't stop you, but I will warn you."

The other boy looked back at his boyfriend, before embracing Flame once more to whisper, "Trying to tell them about the exact moment of transportation, trying to tell them about 'Lord Talus'... There's a mental block against that. So we're going to have to do a workaround."

Flame stiffened with anger at the mention of Talus, before he said, "Ash, if we didn't have any other options right now, I'd say that's stupid; it still is in many ways." He then looked at Alistair, then Ashton as he finally stopped hugging the latter, and spoke to the former, "Alistair, meet my boyfriend, Ashton. Yes, I'm a f*g**t; sorry about that. Ashton, meet Alistair, he managed to get us out of our initial destination and back to you."

He then turned towards Father Whiskey and said, "Father Whiskey, if that's your real name, this is Ashton; I'm 'living in sin' with him. Sorry about that. Ashton, this is 'Father Whiskey' - not his true name. He's pretty chill for a priest."