It was just another day, and Valerie was hanging off of a sadistically tall tower and rethinking her life choices.
Well, perhaps 'life choices' was a bit drastic. She was certainly regretting her decision to climb the monument that had been named Sky Tower, though. Surprisingly enough, this aptly named building reached all the way up into the clouds and had made her dizzy just to look at it. Up close and far above the ground, this feeling was much, much worse. For someone whose biggest fear was heights, she had made a terrible decision in choosing to climb to the top. Back when she had started the climb, curiosity had overridden fear and common sense as it usually tended to do for the girl. Curiosity was going to get her killed one of these days.
But that day was apparently not today.
Valerie managed to pull herself up to safety and cling pitifully to a sturdy pillar until her legs stopped doing their best impression of cooked spaghetti. Once her breathing had returned back to normal and she felt much calmer, she cursed how she had ended up in this situation.
It had all begun with a scroll that had randomly popped into existence out of nowhere.
A couple of days ago, the ReQuip mage had been going about her business of painting the mayoral statue pink and purple to give it a bit more vibrancy. She had been about to add the finishing touches of smiley faces onto it when suddenly, an ornate scroll poofed into view and unrolled itself with great pomp and ceremony. The words were written with an elaborate script befitting the magically mysterious scroll and invited her to go to Sky Tower as soon as possible. As far as invitations went, this was the most interesting one she had received to date. The girl's attention had been captured and curiosity compelled her to go forth. It wasn't like she would be missing something terribly exciting in Talonia, after all.
"Well, now what?"
Valerie murmured to herself as she leaned against a pillar and waited at the top of the tower for something exciting to happen. Someone was going to die if it turned out that she had climbed all this way for nothing.