[hr][hr][center][h1][b][i][color=F2541F]Atkin Bowman[/color][/i][/b][/h1]
[/center][hr][center][color=F2541F][b]Location:[/b][/color] Wizard Tower[/center][hr]
	Atkin followed Arya down the moving staircase. He felt pretty bad for the Ordinary Wizards getting shafted so they could get to the bottom faster (it wasn't like the Manuscriptorium was going anywhere), but he wasn't the one driving the bus. When he stepped off the staircase, he was confronted with the message:
[h1][center][b][color=#93bf2a]THINGS[/color] [color=#cd4985]ARE[/color] [color=#8deeee]LOOKING[/color] [color=#faa76c]UP[/color] [color=#ffd504]EXTRAORDINARY[/color] [color=#00ff00]APPRENTICE![/color][/b][/center][/h1]

	He was already tired of the floor's shenanigans, another message like this didn't help much. Not to say that no duh the Castle appeared to be in grave danger. They got a new queen and in less than a day the other princess was kidnapped, there was a witch war, an attack against the Castle itself and then a massive fucking riot. Even a blind man could see the danger. And he doubted that anyone who ever got a message like that was genuinely relieved to read it.

	[color=F2541F]"Pleased to meet'cha,"[/color] he greeted Sylvi, waving amicably. Bards combining Magyk with music was kind of a weird concept, but it wasn't really that out there. Most spells were performed with a spoken incantation of some kind, why couldn't those same incantations be encoded in lyric or instrumentations? Seemed to all align with him. He noticed the message on the floor calling her 'Crown Princess,' but that wasn't really anything to bat an eye at. Arya knew who she was, and she'd just be another member of nobility to add to the list. Wasn't going to change a damn thing. The "love will always win thing" was a bit more of a puzzle.

	And oh, Cuyler was there too. Of course he'd be. Was he just going to start showing up every day now? Constantly bothering him with his presence? Get a hobby, man. A hobby that didn't involve coming to the Tower and trying to schmooze Arya. Even if that traitorous floor is egging him on.

	[color=F2541F]"Depends on whatcha mean. Somebody's been skulking around everywhere lately it seems. F- Screwing with everything. Wouldn't be surprised if most of the turmoil goin' on over the past couple of days isn't due to them. Is that what you're asking about, or is there some other intruder?"[/color] Atkin was going to give the guy the benefit of the doubt here. Yesterday he was going into fairy tales, but that was in response to things that were admittedly out of the ordinary and not explainable by modern knowledge. Maybe today he had some actually valuable information and not just a bunch of redundancy and fantasy.