[color=A0A0A0][h2]Fleuri Jodeau[/h2][/color]

Fleuri listened attentively to what Veileena had to say when pressed by the other knights.  According to the Cal scion, the shard had been in the hands of the Mages College, and their goal was to find a way to destroy it.  Fleuri shook his head at this revelation, incredulous that the people in charge of the college could be so arrogant.

[i]The hubris of these mages, to think that they and their mortal magic could succeed in destroying the shard of a weapon that took the combined might of the dual goddesses to shatter.[/i]

This would no doubt be a massive scandal for the college once it got out, but the political implications seemed like an afterthought compared to the danger posed by the shard in the wrong hands.  Furthermore, Veileena's explanation left out one key detail- why was she here at the shrine?  The Iron Roses were led here by the note in the dead guard's pocket, so what brought the Cal girl to this place, at this most suspicious time?

Fleuri was ready to chime in with this question, when Gerard suddenly alerted him to something moving in the trees.  Fleuri adjusted his helmet and readied his lance, then rode to Gerard's side, ready to skewer any foes that might emerge.  The younger Reonite may have been a knight for only a short time, but his mercenary experience had already proven very helpful to the order, and it looked like his perceptive senses might might have just saved them from being caught unaware by an ambush.

"Captain," Fleuri called out to Fanilly, "Sir Gerard spotted something moving in the trees.  We may not be alone out here!"

Alerting the captain would no doubt tip off their mystery visitors off that they had been spotted, but he wasn't going to put the other knights at risk of being caught unprepared.  Besides, they already would have noticed Gerard's reaction to them.

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