The “expedition”
(This chapter is done from Lucas's point of view, in fact most of them will be)
"So kid, are you gonna get out of bed and have a spar with me, or are yer gonna sit there with that dumb look on yer face?"
Sometimes I'm actually tempted to fight the old man, just to shut him up, but today is not the day I succumb to the temptation.
"That depends, are you going to stop making holes in my floor with that ridiculous sword?" I ask, unable to hide the slight twitch of my eye.
"About that uhh *cough* well, you see…erm it is my house and all, so I figure you should just….MOVE OUT IF YER DON'T WANT MY SWORD IN YER ROOM'S FLOOR!!"
He uses the same argument every time, maybe I should move out and let him repair the floor for once, actually scratch that he'd probably make it worse.
*grumble*
And that's all the sign I need to tell me to ignore the old man and focus on finding breakfast.
I kick the old man out of my room, get out of bed, and look around a bit, before I get dressed in my gear, ready for the expedition with the old man and his team, plus the four other teams sent by the guild, and then I head to the kitchen, and take my seat next to the old man while his wife serves the food and then she sits with us and we all talk about our plans for the day, in my opinion, the best way to start a day by far, a lot better than the battle-cry's and rain of arrows I grew used to when I lived up at the border.
Anyway, after breakfast me and the old man start walking towards the guild, to be there before the expedition starts.
"So kid….you sure yer ready to go back across the border into the beast forest just to get a herb fer some noble lad?"
"It's as good a time as any old man, and you know that as well as I do, besides it's not like we're going into a dungeon"
Sometimes the old man get's like this, he starts to worry, it was the same when I went on that expedition to the next city over for two weeks, he even tried to get me a dream catcher once.
"Yeah I know that kid, yer tougher than the lot of us in the guild…but even the bravest knight gets too scared to move sometimes, and I'm not trying to say you'll get scared but kid, just be careful alright?"
Okay now the old man's lost me, he's talking like he won't be there, in fact he's talking like I'll be alone out there, and there's no chance of that, after all there's no way I could survive in the beast forest alone, especially not now.
"Old man the expedition's gonna go fine and you know it, your just worrying over nothing." I say trying to sound reassuring.
"Yeah…of course it's gonna go fine… I hope"
Well at least he's sorta coming around, I think.
Oh well no time to think we're already at the guild.
The guild is just what you'd expect, big building, three floors and a sign with a sword and a bow crossing each other
(And that's it for this chapter, I know it's slow passed, and that this chapter isn't much longer than the last one, but bear with it for a while, Oh right real quick, the way the expedition's work is that the adventures get told some details about the expedition, but not all of them and the employer, gets to decide which adventurers actually go on the expedition, kay bye 👋)