No More Fruit | Story | Open to Lamia Scale

Enola stared into the dark, door-less closet. It was not much of a close, more like a random crevice somewhere within the Lamia Scale guild hall, but it had something so very dear to the maid. She did not even like to keep it at Shohei's manor for she knew it would be safer in Hargeon Town. Enola bent forward and squinted her eyes until she found the big wooden box inside. Her gloved hands grasped the handles on the end and she tugged to turn it around until she was dragging it through the marble hallways. The scraping of the wood against the marble generated quite a bit of noise but it was unlikely to awake anyone, save for Taraki who slept during the day...

"Oh, right... Taraki isn't here anymore."

The maid frowned at the short moment of nostalgia as she often enjoyed the wolf boy's company. He could make quite a mess, but Enola could overlook those. It's what friends did after all. She hoped, wherever he was, that he was safe and, most of all, happy.

Once Enola had dragged the wooden chest, she looked around and bit her lip. There was no one around in the main area of the guild hall. The maid usually liked the quietness as it meant peace, but it seemed a little more disappointing than it should have been.

"I guess everyone's busy. Work is important after all."

They were a wizard's guild and many of them went on jobs, some of them dangerous. It wasn't much of a surprise that no one would be around; in fact, the maid had been pretty busy with her own jobs. Recently, however, she had preferred to take up her more favorite job of being a maid. Sort of. She enjoyed being a servant because she was supposed to be, or so she was taught. She dared not break from her role as a perfect servant against, less she be punished.

Enola dragged the chest over to a marble table, the some table that Enola and Ean Vanguard had played cards on. The very thought of that day made the maid swoon up with nostalgia. She only just entered the guild hall for the first time when Ean pulled her aside to play cards. She put the thought away though, thinking it unwise to focus on the past so much. It was pointless. She turned her focus back to the chest and reached her hand to the collar of her uniform and plucked out a little pendant. The pendant had the shape of a sword fish and, to most people, would seem innocuous. Her hand grasped the pendant carefully and placed it next to the lock of the chest. She inserted the piece of Jewelry into the slot and, with a loud click, unlocked it.

She sat back in her marble chair and looked around some more. for signs of life in the earthy guild hall. There still wasn't anyone around. There never was.

Kihia had managed to sneak up behind Enola as she had opened up the chest, it was a Holiday, so most of the Guild was out in Town having a good time, and going crazy, However Kihia had come back early as he had never been one for the festival scene much. When he had arrived he had found Enola alone in the main hall with a chest infront of her. He had a bag of fruit in his right hand as he simply watched and waited as Enola was seemingly lost in thought… then he suddenly Said, “Enola… it wouldn’t hurt you to take a break from work every now and then… Even the best of us needs some R&R…” Kihia would then wait for a moment before walking around to her right and looked at the chest, however he did not recognize this chest… he was used to the chest she held all of her cleaning equipment but this wasn’t it. “So tell me Enola… what makes you want to stay inside on this festive day…?”

Like a tiger stalking its prey, Quincy eyed the new guild master as he wandered from the festival to the guild hall again. She officially hasn't made her return home just yet and she would love to do so with a bang. She stalked him into the hall quietly in the shadows, using her complexion to help conceal her from the ice mage. Though when she saw that the new guild master was talking to a long time acquaintance, she decided it was not a good idea to ambush Kihia. Rather she just stuck to the shadows and watched, waiting for the right moment to present herself to the both of them.