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[color=gold]Time:[/color] Evening
[color=gold]Location:[/color] Forests at the edge of River Port
[color=gold]Interactions:[/color] Cora [@Potter], Elsea [@Tae], Ezeri [@Alivefalling][/center]

[color=DCDDC6][color=gold]“This will do just fine, thank you Ezeri. It is an honor to fight alongside such a courageous warrior.”[/color] Cade forced a bright smile and slapped her shoulder with the hand not attached to his injured arm. The arm, which dangled about like a useless hunk of meat, was at least not dripping blood about. He would not waste time discussing the amount of damage to his arm, either he would get it healed in town or he would find himself a saber of some sort and fight one-armed. For Cade, as with most any feline, pride was deeply important. He would not bemoan a battered arm, and certainly not while a young demihuman laid there half roasted. 

[color=gold]“No potions I’m afraid, but the faster we move the better his chances will be once we are in town.”[/color] Cade said brushing past Ezeri and nodding his head in the direction towards the healing center. He was dizzy, weakened from both the blood loss and the life force taken from him by Utsuro, but he’d had worse. Cade carried on as if he was barely injured because that was what a cat does. His gait was noticeably clumsier than usual but he did not slow his pace. 

Cade had never cared much for magics, he had none and would never wish for it. He saw the ways so many used it irresponsibly, all the ways it was used to cause suffering. The ways those who possessed it acted as if it made them better. Magic made plenty of things easier but Cade saw a great deal wrong with doing things the easy way. It was rarely the right way, and everything came at a cost, whether you paid it upfront or discovered it later. Currently, all of Avalia was paying a great price for how the lich used magic, and save for necromancy, no other magic scared him the way fire magic did. It was wild and brutal, fire magic would burn, without hesitation, all that was in its path. 

He gave Cora a grateful smile and nod as she extinguished the flames in the forest. She was trying and he could see that. Cade could tell by the looks worn on both Cora and Elsea’s faces that their intent had not been to harm the young man. But the rabbit still paid the price for their magic and the young demihuman moaned in agony atop the unicorn. Cade voiced none of these concerns, it was not needed, and he did not envy the difficult road that surely lay ahead of those humans burdened with this power. 

[color=gold]“No need to make a fuss over me, Cora, I am more than willing to bleed for our cause.”[/color] He set his eyes on the dwindling lights of River Port, ready to make his way into town.[/color]

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[color=cadetblue]Time:[/color] Evening
[color=cadetblue]Location:[/color] River Port-Healing Center
[color=cadetblue]Interactions:[/color] Belle[@Potter][/center]

[color=B0C0C5]Valok offered a small smile as the lights dimmed and shadows throughout the room settled more comfortably. His eyes could see more clearly now, it no longer hurt to look about the room the way did when the light was so very bright. He looked at Belle when she spoke to him, but never in her eyes. Commanders never liked for those below them to look them in the eye, and Belle had ordered the fairies around with the presence of authority. He wondered if she came from leadership in her own world, though now it was clear that she took orders from Malachi. Still, she was someone of much higher value to the rebellion, and Valok never forgot his place in things. 

[color=cadetblue]“Today has been a good day for me, but I am sorry it has not been so for you.”[/color] Valok said with a nod. For him today had been amongst his best; he had survived a fight, he had found a new commander to follow, and he had the strange experience of meeting kind strangers. The last one was new to him, and despite his gut reaction to the fairies, he did not find himself disliking them. He was surprised at Belle’s other question, he was not accustomed to being asked what he wanted. He gave it some thought, and he decided he was also hungry.

[color=cadetblue]“I would like to eat as well. If it is permitted. Otherwise, I will wait for orders from Malachi.”[/color] Valok glanced back to the door, towards the fairies, and then again at Belle. He got up and walked over to the fairies, politely asking them for water for Belle and him. The fairy was impossibly chipper and unbothered by him asking for it. He returned to Belle and sat back down with the same stiff posture. Fidgeting was unbecoming of a soldier, he had learned that very young and so he was always careful to remain as still as possible. 

[color=cadetblue]“You said you needed a drink, the healer is going to bring us water.”[/color] Valok explained and then paused briefly choosing his next words carefully. [color=cadetblue]“Much like the light in this room was, the fairies are too bright for me. Not the sort of people I am used to. But it must take a lot to use so much of one’s magic to heal others. They are very kind for doing so, they do not seem half as bad as I was taught to believe they were.”[/color] Valok explained as best he could, unsure if a human would understand. If their worlds were in any way similar. He found the fairies strange, too kind, full of too much light, but these were not things he held against them, these were intriguing qualities.[/color]