Red Velvet [Job/Dahau]

A rather odd request has found its way into the dark community of the magical world. Not that it was such strange feat for dark mages to find a job opportunity hanging from their board. But rather that this time the job was about helping and escorting a young man from Bellum to the border of Pergrande. And considering that most jobs the dark mages do were either assassinations, robbery or other vile work, then yes this was an oddity. But be that as it may, even dark mages needed a little extra money sometimes especially if you are a mage coming from the darkest of guilds, Savage Skull. In that case every penny was important, not so much as for yourself, but for the guild as well. Since it seemed that the dark guild was trapped into an never-ending war against Fiore and its legal guilds.

Even Dahau couldn't escape that fate. Despite the fact that he was one of the top mages in Savage Skull and had more than enough underlings to do his dirty work. Even he himself had to go out sometimes and make some money for the guild. And besides, this was an international job with a rather high risk factor to be captured by forces from Pergrande itself. Also known as the anti-magic kingdom. There they saw mages as heretics, witches to be burned at the stake. But to be fair, the people lived a tough live in Pergrande. On one side they had a giant wall to protect them from the evil and vile monsters that lived in the realm beyond. Always at war against these against magical monstrosities. So you couldn't blame them for their hatred. On their other side they had Bellum a country where the mages were the ruling class and anyone without magical capabilities was considered a second class. Barely a person.

He wasn't going to do the job alone though, accompanying him on this ordeal was another mage from another guild. Grim Heresy, a kindred guild and as dark as it can be. Exchanges between the dark guilds didn't happen that often, mostly because it could easily start a war between their rather fragile 'alliance'. Well saying it is an actual alliance is a bit of an overstatement. The dark guilds enjoyed more a silent non-aggression pact than actually working together. And considering the fact that most dark mages were a rather treacherous bunch that more than once only looked out for themselves, and just easily betray each other, you could say that every time two dark mages of a different guild did the same job, that is a possibility to spark an all out war.

However that wasn't to Dahau's concern, his only problem with the situation was that he didn't know the woman. He only knew her name and her allegiance but nothing more. Meaning that she could just as easily be nothing but deadweight, yet another scoundrel he had to drag along while he did all the work. And he didn't like that, if Dahau went on a job he wanted to do it quickly without to much effort. And unknown factors like her could very well ruin that for him. She could be easily triggered and go berserk, or she could be a total sloth or worse... she could be cheerful.
Their meeting point was at the border of Fiore, or to be exact a transit location for international travel. As Bellum was a long way away form Fiore they had to travel per ship. And not just a normal one, airships. Those were the most recent development in public transportation. The airships for commercial travel were gigantic to say the least. They could easily fit over a thousand people in their hulls. And judging from the amount of people that were waiting around there would be around the same amount on their trip.

People came in all shapes and sizes, especially when you live in a magic filled world. There where brusk and muscled build mages, mercenaries carrying large swords. Families young and old and even the traditional clothed mages with a robe and hat complete. But it weren't only humans that came through this place, the vile and putrid stench of the hybrid races where here as well. Humanoids with animal like traits. Like Neko's and their cat ears and tails. They were no better than animals.
As Dahau looked around he scanned the area for any hint for his potential partner, according to the information he she had to be waiting close to the oddly shaped landmark. And had distinctive feature you couldn't miss, and knowing she was from Grim Heresy Dahau just assumed she must look like some sort of demon.

Standing near the stone, was a woman who just fits that entire description. She wore a rather formal attire and from her head where two large horns. Dahau approached, and immediately spoke up. 'You are from Grim Heresy i suppose? I figured from that rotten look on your face, honestly such a look is wasted on a pretty thing like you. Why don't you try a smile?'