Margaret: Once More With Feeling

"You know, I'm never to one to judge but I can't help but feel that I've been missing out on a lot of stuff lately..." A young girl spoke to no one, simply voicing her thoughts out loud for anyone to hear. Her name is Margaret Elle, she used to be a mage for Pharoah's Call until it got disbanded for some reason. She couldn't quite recall why, maybe she was just bad at details or maybe she just received the news while she was busy, who could tell? For now she was a guildless mage once more, going where the wind blew, drifting from place to place with a good sum of money to her name. "I am a simple woman," She began mumbling incoherently to herself. "I see the call to adventure I answer with no hesitation, sure the ship almost sinking might've been my fault but then how was I supposed to know that ships could burn in the ocean while in the middle of the storm." She huffed and crossed her arms. "At least they kicked me out at the port instead of throwing me overboard. Thank magic for small mercies I guess but they didn't let me get my stuff." She thanked and complained.

It had taken hours before an exhausted, thirsty, and hungry Margaret arrived at Rose Garden, currently the last stop of her impulsive wanderings. She had taken to using her scythe as a cane, her tired legs taking a few more steps before stumbling into an inn. 'Silver Rose Inn huh? Seems nice...wait, isn't this the place of those Ebony Orchids or something?' She tiredly thought as she shambled through the doors, picked a secluded table away from the center, and collapsed onto a seat, breathing a long sigh of relief as her body finally managed to rest. "Aaaaah...That is muuuuch better."

'Maybe I should join a guild as a form of break? I am getting a bit tired of going from place to place non stop.' She thought. It would be nice to have a more permanent place to stay in and a more stable source of income other than agreeing to odd jobs here and there and sleeping in the strangest of places. She wasn't sure she could take another session of 'Sleeping Outdoors In The Rain' without getting seriously sick.

Hey, she was adventurous, not reckless.

'No.' She thought with a sudden rush of determination flowing through her. 'I am not doing another Sleeping Outdoors In The Rain if I can help it.' She decided, making up her mind. 'I'm gonna join a guild again!' Her stomach growled. 'After eating.'

For a little while, some of her friends or such had asked her not to take official jobs until she regained some of her energy. Recently? The Ace had been abducted again, though her rescue was much swifter this time she had been drained of almost all the energy connected to her newly discovered goddess status, which resulted in drastic changes to her body. Kazehime had the same strength of magic she had come to possess over her last few years of utilizing it, but her physical form was one that appeared to be a much easier victim than her adult form appeared as because for the moment she was a child! Once she had been rescued this time around, her power was unable to sustain an adult form without retreating back into Solace thus it chose to age her down enough so that sustaining her physical form would still be possible. At the moment the female appeared to be a child somewhere between eight and twelve, bright ginger hair which matched orange optics, dressed in a hoodie dress that went to her knee's, no shoes or socks to be seen.

"You look awful hungry, I was just getting ready for lunch, you picky or can I order for us?" suddenly Margret would be met with the site of a small child sitting in the seat across from her, only the child had an insanely powerful aura of magic, clearly a high ranking mage if one bothered sensing her. Plus? She seemed to have a large ginger tail wagging behind her as she spoke of eating. "I'm Jiyu Kazehime, what's your name?~" the female laughed slightly, kicking her bare legs the light purple fabric of the dress someone had chosen to put her in bouncing slightly. As much as she hated it? A good number of her guild mates, namely aruzati had grown fond of dressing her up in cute outfits since was returned to the guild in her child form. "And before you say it, I am not a child, I am over twenty, I just don't have the energy to maintain my normal form." and she did not know when her energy would return.

'Where in the name of all things sacred and dead did you come from?' Margaret fought the urge to say at the sudden presence of the small child now sitting across her. Actually, that wasn't quite right. She didn't fight the urge to say it she just didn't have enough energy to say it properly and loudly enough to be coherent. Instead, what was supposed to be a sudden inquiry on the presence of the strong presenced child came out as a garbled and tired 'Whuntenmgltgsredadediyoucomfra'. A messy string of words that sounded like she was choking on her own spit and being strangled by an unseen force while being tickled breathless at the same time. Margaret took a very deep breathe, as if she was gathering enough energy to speak, which was a lot easier now that she had at least been able to rest for a few minutes.

"Not picky." She said slowly. Her stomach growled loudly once more, as if protesting the use of more stamina. "Very hungry, name's Margaret Elle." She introduced herself. Usually she would go into a long speech of how she liked adventuring and her magic but she just didn't have it in her to do so. Probably because of her empty stomach and sore body. Then the girl with a tail, Jiyu Kazehime her name was, said something that jolted a response out of her.

"Wow you must save a lot on moisturizer."

Then another girl came in, this time she had a mob of white hair atop her head. "H-hey stay a while, it's alright, you weren't intruding or anything!" Her stomach protested loudly once more. "Yes I get that you're hungry! I'm hungry! Don't keep reminding me!" She yelled at her stomach. "I'm sorry, I'd love to keep talking but I'm starving, I'd just like a lot of food right now."

This woman was extremely hungry, Jiyu could tell that within a few seconds, not just from the obnoxiously grumbling stomach and lack of energy but from the scent hungry people tended to produce, honestly, she was a bit against that smell. At present the other girl would not be much of a bother, she would be fed soon as they were in a restaurant that doubled as an inn and somewhere for the guild members to stay. Jiyu herself? Had a small room of her own here, as the amount of work she normally took prevented her from requiring an actual home, just a place to sleep and socialize. Kazehime was never around the guild very long when she came back, normally two or three days, luckily those days tended to be when new comers came, so she could meet them before too long went by. The Inugami would have said something but about that time was when Charolette came in and she could smell salt very easily, tears, causing the canine to jump from her seat and run slightly clumsily after the younger girl. Clearly, the mage didn't run much.

"Charlotte what are you doing?! Come back, you're not intruding, we were just about to have lunch! Sit down with us, geez girl what are you crying over, why would anyone think they could interrupt me?!" she was the one who interrupted people more often, she sometimes lacked courtesy so to say, anyways she tried to grab the taller girls hand and lead her back to the table Margret was sitting at. "Someone we need a large steak, several specials and whatever char wants, alongside non-alcoholic drinks, just charge it all to me." she made enough off her work to pay for all three of them anyway's, even if she suspected marge would need to eat a lot of food.

Once Jiyu was able to sit back down? She refocused on the prior conversation before she had to go after her guild-mate. "Never seen a use for moisturizer, the stuff sounds pretty bad. Speaking of that would you like a room? Smell like you could use one. No offense." and yes she was suggesting Elle smelled sweaty, but it wasn't meant as an insult since lots of people smelled that way to someone whose sense of smell was at least forty two times better than that of a human.

"Please, dig in!"

Margaret did not need to be told twice to dig in. Her hands let go of her scythe and swept across the table, picking up food as it went by plates before she shoved the mass of edible material into her mouth and swallowed without even tasting the food in the span of several seconds. The hungry elementalist shoveled and cleared plates in less than a minute, downing a drink every now and then. Plates were suddenly missing the food that was once on them as Margaret's voracious hunger tore apart the once plentiful feast, quickly reducing it to three quarters of what it once had moments ago.

Finally she slowed down enough to actually chew her food and she found that it was delicious. She had never tasted anything quite as good for such a long time, like Thanatos' Death Soup. "Thanks for feeding me...sorry about the speed earlier, I was very hungry." She cleared her throat and straightened up in her seat. "Now that I've been fed I can properly introduce myself. I am Margaret Elle, budding elemental magic expert!" She announced herself. "Yeah a room seems nice. I do need a shower but I don't have any other clothes on me so I'd be wearing these dirty ones again so my bath would've been for naught."

She took a deep sigh. "Things were so much easier back then..." She muttered mostly to herself. "Sorry, I'm rambling...Aaanyways I am an adventurer! I love ruin diving and secret uncovering! There is no secret safe from Margaret Elle!" She declared boisterously before suddenly deflating. "At least I was an adventurer until my guild disbanded. Then I wandered here and there looking for a call to adventure or something..." She immediately cheered up. "Buuut enough about me! What brings two lovely ladies to my table?"

Jiyu sadly was an inexplicably lazy female when she was at the GuildHall sometimes, once she had tirelessly worked the bar and such. However, as she began taking on more dangerous missions and a much larger volume of missions consecutively, she needed the time she spent here to rest, not work. Thus the female was nowhere near on duty and thus would not be taking any orders for the time being, at least for a few days until her energy returned more than it had at this point. Food was always good for someone within the process of recharging! Jiyu adored food, especially since there had been a time when she had to fight just to get scraps, now she could eat whenever and whatever she wanted short of thing harmful to dogs.

Soon as the food was conjured? Kazehime picked up her steak with her mouth, using one clawed hand to make sure it didn't fall to the floor as she started tearing it apart with her mouth. Apparently using cutlery was beyond the wind user, for some strange reason. This would only be discovered if someone was daring enough to delve into her past, for now, it was just an odd thing she did. "Food is good, it's alright Marg" right after speaking she finished eating the steak she had ordered, not bothering to wipe her face or such since she could lick that and her hand clean.

"Jiyu Kazehime, Wind Mage. We're both Black Rose mages, this place is also our guild hall, so at the least, I hang out here when I'm not out on jobs." sadly though she actually was not around very often because she went on missions for weeks at a time! To see her resting like this was actually kind of rare. "I was bored." she further explained that as much as she was entertaining herself, she was letting marge entertain her as she found herself somewhat boring considering she lived with herself.

"Ah so you're both mages of Black Rose, right that makes sense, I do remember that this place was a guildhall for a guild, I just couldn't place the name til now..." Margaret reached for a napkin and wiped her hands clean before picking up a bowl of soup and drinking it down as if it were a drink. She put down the bowl and scarfed down a loaf of bread before washing it down by drinking an actual drink. "Ah, can't remember the last time I ate this much this well..." She coughed slightly to cover up a burp. "So you were bored and you just wanted to help, how sweet the two of you are. If the guild Black Rose has people like you and eat like this then I guess...I used to be part of Pharoah's Call and I only got so far there...didn't even know who my guildmates were..."

"Yes some new clothes would be lo-" She suddenly paused as she processed what Charlotte said. "You can sense magic?!" Margaret asked, suddenly standing up. "...Sorry about my loudness..." She sat down again. "...My scythe, it belongs to an old friend I've been looking for...can you glean anything from it?" Margaret requested sounding both hopeful yet resigned. "Err...you can say no if you don't want to, just curious of what you'll find...actually, nevermind that I asked, that's rude of me..."

She picked her scythe and rested it against the nearest wall. "So...can I get some new clothes and a bath first before I look into joining Black Rose or do I have to do that one first?"

She would normally be paying attention to almost everything going on around her, but she was distracted and weaker than normal as proven by choosing the form of a child over an adult. Right now? Jiyu was actually incapable of maintaining her grown form, she did not have the ethereal energy to accomplish that sort of shift, or maybe she should call it Solace energy, anyways to escape captivity she had used way too much of the energy which stemmed from being a goddess. "Huh!?" so it was quite easy for Charlotte to 'sneak' up on the small wind witch with her napkin. Kazehime didn't know how she felt about guild-mates treating her as if she was some sort of child, but until she made a decision on that she would not fight such actions much, at least until she knew how she felt about it and could make a choice.

"I don't use those things, my mouth and hands work just fine." she scoffed slightly, frowning her head clearly somewhere besides the other two people near her when she said those words. Ever since her mother died, she hadn't really tried to use cutlery, at first it had been mostly rebellion against her father's marriage to her step mother, but eventually thing's just evolved and before she knew it she had gone years without using such items. Wearing shoes? Was the same way, the girl was always barefoot, when she was an adult people had stopped questioning her on it, but she had a feeling as a child people would question many of her quirks most of the time. "Yeah I don't have any clothing I can share, given my adult form is shorter and larger busted than her, but it's a good idea Charolette it does look like yours might fit her." her adult form was also likely better defined in terms of hips and such too, but she hadn't paid much attention to her own body only what other's said considering she spent most of her time in that form half naked.

Shit, now Charlotte was taller than her compared to before! Not fair!

"Hey Char, why don't you go get her some clothing and I'll let her use my shower, considering I have lots of products for getting stubborn dirt and stuff to come clean." considering she was always getting injured or filthy and also had to make sure to clean her exteremly fuzzy tail when she bathed, Jiyu had multiple products, shockingly, normally she looked like a heathen but when she chose to clean up she did it right. "Of course it might not be a bad idea to find a room to run her a bath, my room is beyond tiny." tiny was actually an understatement, honestly Jiyu's room put a new meaning on efficiency, but in the end it was simply a place for her to crash for a night or two before she went back out on missions, and thanks to her time as a runaway she was used to trying to take up as little space as possible. Having some small apartment like 'room' to herself? Would have made the witch feel guilty. For all three of them to just fit into Jiyu's room? Two of them would have to sit on her bed otherwise they wouldn't be able to open the bathroom door. "We can handle formal acceptance after our new guild-mate is cleaned up." and maybe rested, everyone needed to take a nap after going long distances.