Chapter 2: Appearance

"You,you have followed me through here I have no idea why but announce your reason or else" Michi demanded to the unknown man after her seeking the reason for what he had come for but the statement she just said was only a conclusion and wasn't confirmed yet

"Or else what?" Suspicious,he asked,his guard was low really displayed of how much he doesn't care right now and there was a lot of openings but at the same time there wasn't. It's not that hard to read the atmosphere but rather his surroundings was hard for michi to figure out of how to get this fellow out of her way

"Just.. or else" she has nothing,she wasn't prepared for this but she knew something might happen like it,she only bought herself and that's all as well as the instruction paper,nothing else and none for depending herself

Both of them stayed still at the same spot,no movements just observing each other's next move and it stayed that way for a whole minute only the sound of the rusting peaces of leaves and the winds blow

The tension between them grew,it was hard to stand by for michi and since she's cornered she has to find a way to out run this man,forget about the party. Her safety was priority

"Seriously.." finally the man cuts the silent treats "can you stop that? You look like a cat whose ready to paw me in the face,relax. I'm not here to hurt you nor did I followed you madam"

'Madam?'

"Then what is it that you want?" michi was being impatient because she had thought of 2 things to get away from this situation,one. She distracts him with a simple gesture and the second he had took off his attention she'll run to the side and slid as fast as she can run it was a cliche move and probably can be seen through immediately but that's all she can think with the minimum time she has,this guy may attack anytime and might be lying so this was her only choice,

The the second is to throw the barrier of expired whine into his whole body,take the rust key and run then climb the walls like a monkey

If he happen to follow up after real quick, I'm done

"What I want is—" before he could say anything more, another person appeared, not on the ground but in the air from behind the suspension man as his legs flew with him and arms formed ready to fight, he landed infront of the cloak person making the dirty dust and dirt sway everywhere very powerful it sent visualization from the tiny particles

Michi stumbled back a bit, taken a back of the sudden appearance of a different troublesome person, maybe one of the people who had joined with the flier she found. Like her, finding a way in. She cannot believe coming into a party would be this hard but fun, she enjoys at least some of the moments

An old man, maybe around his 60s whom his hard was shaving bald but seldom hair is still visible, although his was white as if one pull of a strand would just pull out immediately out his head, even his mustache that surrounds under his nose was buzzing because of the dust, she knows he's stopping himself sneeze, she took notice of the accessory he wore, the that was on both his undeniable eyes, it was glasses but somehow it did not fell when he jumped really high from the back, he land quite like the main characters she sees in books. She's in awe

The cloak person flinch a bit because of that action but never too reliable to detect because it was very fragile reaction, michi saw that. She sense his emotions a bit from a far because of it, she left he was too, taken aback. So then quickly, the old man looked at her, that was an intense stare she's getting, like he's about to assassinate her off this righteous time.

"Master" he spoke out that she could hear him, his voice was not of an old man you would see everywhere or the same old age that withers, he had a stable voice even his health seems very much likely not in a critical decaying phase, more like a high-class type. She's wandering why would this man call the cloak person a master, this can be used for someone who has a very high position on nobles of course, which is everyone who lives luxuriously. She could envy this fact sometimes but this situation, she's a bit curious

A moment of silent after, the oldman is still on his stance like a watchful tiger while michi, her dagger on her leg that's hidden under her was shinning legitimately at her like a flowery gold that wants be in use, her face clearly was on full display with the both, now that it was obvious, these two were connected.

Suddenly, despite the hot aurally place which suffocates and brings sweats, a sudden big wind blew the place. Michi was able to react accordingly when she felt the tiny tickles on her ankle, so fast she covered her face to stop dirty flaws from some place to come and diffract and give her an awful space of breathing from little pains, she saw the cloak's person hood dropped too

Wow, she felt, that was something after taking the glance and finally looking up, she saw emerald sun drops from the cloaks guy's direction, like a ruby's pure district adoration of green melting point of earth's greatest and pride reflects like nature. An unfamiliar color swing from the air, it was reducing the power until no wind was too much. It looked really long like a tail but this, she followed that with her eyes and saw a beautiful man infront, his hair, which was the perfect unfamiliarity of dozens of flowers to the town, was right before her eyes.

His eyes, were not the ones that in the village would find, the graceful movement of his lashes were waves of seas of millions like glowing fresh water, eyes of a mother's earth revived, the green pupils were too focused on the companion he's near, she did her best not to look like a fool but it feels like magic at the moment. His long hair was average almost his tall height which, looked very annoying and tied very tight back at his head. His face distorted because of the lack of joy that currently is not helping his annoyance hidden away some because of the mask

"Told you not to call me that" she heard from there, he was barely whispering after all he's nowhere relaxed, the man of his 60s nodded apologetically at the pretty woman

yes a woman to her eyes, a very strong features of beauty. She's blinded by it that she sees him as a woman

They were talking not too loudly but not too minimal for her not to seek, she was consuming information from the both that's she suddenly there standing not doing anything but when she was called from that direction, she immediately went and looked at an eyes of heaven away from the bottle of whiskey from the floor

"yes you" he said, he sighed. Suddenly she felt not too uncomfortable with them after revealing themselves bickering left and right without walking away. He rubbed his temple with his slender fingers "honestly, I'm unable to keep this to myself madam but you look like a total non-worthwhile of sacking beans and potato of stupidity standing there"

she's bewildered with the insults coming at her, "what?" she asked offended a bit, this person was not about to call her the very low profile she's not "I was certain, you were who had distributed me fro—"

He shushed her, that was quite rude but still, he looked like he was keeping his cool down so she didn't say anything "can you please let me finish so we do not settle this to an idiotic battle field of uselessness?"

she thinks for a second pretentiously, she was not going to fight them of course, even when he was alone a minute ago, yes she would consider that but if it was necessary only like defense, so she spoke "what is it to you then"

"Again, what I want is for you to listen to what I have to say" he walked forward to her which she walks backwards "no need, we're fragile at the moment and I do not want no fights from a lady" he said and so she stopped, this person was really rude for his age and attitude. He looked young too

"You have no authority to stop me from talking or silence me as your rudeness indicates yourself, I fight if I want and won't hesitate" she said, with a very tiger like eye who's ready to strike "a lady for a lady, not to use faul disrespectful gestures next time" she revealed her knife infront, threatening them which made the oldman push out his alert up but was stopped with a hand because of the beautiful man, he was taller where she's overlapped of his shadow, but she did not fear just because of height difference

He moved a bit away, putting both his hands up like he surrenders. Hands as if he got caught, no playfulness on his two emeralds but serious business, he scanned her for a bit and he did not hid it, looking up and down to her toes up to the edge of her head, he lurks left and right then locked eyes with her, she cannot take this much so she looked at his torso but more obviously, he was looking more at the flier "that's fake"

"Excuse me" she let out almost at the same time right after, he pointed at the piece of paper she was holding

"That" he indicated by wiggling his point finger a bit "it's fake"

"How do you outh to know what's unreal and what is not" she asked, she knowns he was not lying but maybe he is, she had been holding to the paper since she arrived and she cannot unfold it out just like that just because the lady said so, because of his stare like the oldman a while ago he deemed pretty much legit to her,at least that's a resemblance she sees and a bit truthful about it, he was silent almost everytime when trying to know something that's what she observed as well and very patient too

"I do" he said, slowly putting his fingers into a pocket which he did not had, he looked at the cloak he wore and moved it a bit away from his pants, he saw the hole. that pants that looked very expensive and so swift his hands digging it down to his side pockets

They went into a staring contest, but 2 pairs of eyes are flushing right at her soul even his comrade whom was in the side back of the fairy lady, ultimately she had stare back at the morse of emeraldas, she let him continue by not responding

He tapped his hands which indicated the oldman to give him something, a familiar paper she supposed, it was the same as what she's holding she sees. She's puzzled with this and took the hint. They were too looking for a way inside, she was going to say something about it but she stopped herself when the word struck back at her mind that it was fake he had said

"See this" he asked utterly neutral with no smile, he unfolded the piece of parchment then spread it widely, letters and numbers were written and michi saw this. her eyes were that good to see that details of the words but struggled

"Can I have a look at it" she requested hands out, he threw it immediately it at her but pretty far that exceed at least at her shoulder she caught it right in time before it goes more further back, she gave him an irritated look. She took more closer look at it and gave final glance at the two unknown, she reads the information consuming every part and details contains, hey wait. Something's definitely wrong with it

It was different from what she had been invited, no gestures or words of trying to do something but get into a party, she was supposed to solve a puzzle as the flier had guided her at but his was no way near it. More likely, they just had to walk through a path which the path was in a different location in where she's at, it was that simple instructions and yet why did they have an unsimilar invitation "I don't understand" she said outloud, this is blowing her mind a bit "where did you get this from?"

"It was given by a friend around here" he said, moving more closely but the girl whom questioned remained standing at the exact place without moving just looking at him "I had been there several times, the part, only now, this problem of spreading wide misinformation had been a very long issue at the moment"

His answer was different from she had expected, a fake one? And an issue? There's no way, she convinced herself that. There's a lot of possibilities but there is no way her friend would give her this make her look like a fool, not a chance and so she clenched her fist into a ball, confused but determined and so she asked "how would I know what you spat are close to the truth? Any evidence"

She's right, they don't quite close much, more of a stranger and a dangerous crossed of path that are coincidentally went crash. The lady understands by nodding severally acknowledging her questions into accounts and skeptical "you are right" he said, taking the paper slowly "but I do have many invitations like this that may reserve you into trusting me" he had presented more of the invitation he has when the oldman gave it to him, right in her face thrusting it forward to her "consume it well madam" he gave it to her, she took it after. One brow up

Afterwards, she took notice of the time that was attached into pieces of papers, different time and places were occurred into it, new locations were said and more specifically, it said not to tell anyone. so it was supposed to be a secret? she shook her head then aggressively thrusted it back at his torso, this made the man puzzled a little

The information was that she cannot take and foremost to accept that was written, he had given her the truth, maybe or maybe not, she's not that convinced but that. It wasn't a party she was going into that's for sure, It was an auction just as what it says that made her silent into the thin cleared air, she took notice of the place, it smells rotten and bad. All whiskeys and bottles of emptying and dirty rounds of corners

Her friend she loved in adoration of being by her side, that friend lived in riches of all taking control of her own life which michi does not have of, she was only a peasant at nobles eyes and their luxurious and the way they treat her and any more like her was the evidence behind it. She cast them out like a criminal into her eyes, because half of the illegal they do were true seeing them right within her eyes behind small places and hidden attention, Just because of money they were able to do anything without a hold back. No wonder this lady was rude at first, maybe he takes it pit of her family like a genetics. She resents it. Her friend, they take care of each other but at this moment, maybe not right now but that's not the time right now "let's say what you said is true but why are you even here then"

"You know I wouldn't be lying to you" he said finally, he saw that withdraw in her two big eyes, the paper contains a golden crease of badge that says "Admitted Concert" that was a gesture of being involve with bunch of disgusting pupils of moneys which gives them authorization to come at that place she was supposed to go "I was given incharge of this situation"

"Yes, continue" she said, folding two of her arm while looking at him, she moved back a bit noticing the close proximity they just had looks uncomfortable, he sighed

"No that's all there is to say, I cannot give more than that. The badge was enough revealing, it will give me restrictions" he said, folding the paper he had given her a while ago elegantly, the oldman took it and nod and the lady said his thanks

Now, michi does not see the reason of going anymore if the paper said what it had said, no party then no going. She's really into strolling into the nightfall village right now, wanting fresh air through her lungs "well then" she turned and walked passed him going into the previous way she went into without saying a word

"I could accompany you" out of nowhere he said finally, michi's head turned around looking offended and he saw that, he coughed and stopped "I mean, I could join you if you need a walk around, I believe I do not know much about this place around so I might get lost"

She thought about it, he does look foreigner. Just the way he dressed, he can't blend out the village looking like stripping smells of youthful money, people would bang him out of death to get what he posses while walking here publicly. So that oldman was his backup she supposed. I mean, having a very pretty lady besides won't be so bad, he looked a bit harmless at the moment but still she's talking alarm

"I was here because I saw you running here and coming in I'm in no position to do anything anymor.." she started walking again, stopping him from talking "is that a no then?"

she keeps walking until their distant are too wide, she just waved, both man looked at each other and followed her