Am I in trouble?: Mashyuu and Hika

The heat from the fireplace distributed through the whole room, warming it up as if it was summer. The huge candle flickered and brushed against a long procession of granite pillars that marched ahead and around the entire office, lightning up the area. Seated on the leather armchair was no other than the Guildmaster of Sabertooth, Hikari Starr, gazing down at the paper that was placed on the centre of the mahogany desk. The lamplight shone bright on the paper, revealing a neatly trimmed picture on the top corner of the brittle white sheet of paper. ”So, his name is Mashy.” The woman whispered to herself, heavy brows shadowing her beautiful bright eyes of blue as she placed her hands under her chin for support. ”Seems capable for an exam.” Normally, her desk was as messy as it could be with all the paperwork but for some reason, she decided to clean all the untidiness on her table and threw some away, despite how she never even bothered to do it in months.

The woman closed the file she had just viewed, with a content smile on her face and clasped her hands together. A redheaded girl, aged merely in her early teenage years stood beside her table, as if she was waiting for commands. ”Can you go deliver a message to Mashyuu that I need to see him?” The girl was a shy assistant of the guild master, clearly, seeing the way she nodded timidly and scuttling away to the door to fetch she had desired to see. The rose haired mage tapped her fingers gently against each other and crossed her slender legs over another. This Sabertooth mage she had wanted to meet was not one she was so familiar of, let alone — even talking. The woman had been rather busy with the jobs, spending most of her time out of the guild which was why she barely had any time to even introduce herself to the new members of Sabertooth. Mashyuu was fairly new, or so she had heard, but the hard work he had accomplished and the rewards he had achieved had proved her enough that he was a capable mage with lots of potential.

Nodding silently to herself, the woman uncrossed her legs only to push herself off by the support of her working desk and meandered around her room. All the while, her chain of thoughts were ceased abruptly by the gentle knock on her door, followed by a low, husky voice granting him permission to enter. The door creaked slightly and a young man’s head poked inside the gap of the door as she motioned him to come inside. Agitation and perhaps, anxiety washed over his face, she noticed, as she would reassure the young man standing in front of her quickly. ”Don’t be anxious. You did nothing wrong, nor caused any trouble. I just merely wanted to see you …” The woman trailed off, not wanting to spoil the moment or tell him that he was ready for the exam. Pausing her sentence for a brief moment, the young woman walked a few steps closer to her guild mate, her boots clacking against the marbled floor. Her attire was entirely black; a black cropped top that exposed part of her abdomen and black pants that was dressed tightly around her legs, accompanied with black high heel boots. ”You’re Mashyuu, am I correct? And please, call me Hika. I feel rather uncomfortable with my guild mates being too formal with me. Now, the reason I called you here is,” The woman added with a small smile on the pink line of her plump lips before it deepened with a slight twitch on her mouth.