Finding his way from shop to mage

Wearing her Azure Armor over a blue t-shirt and khaki cargo pants with white tennis shoes, Victoria was inside the guild castle instead of the guild tavern. Will and Marceline were managing the tavern just fine without her and the brunette wanted a little adventure today. However, finding that adventure might be a bit of a problem.

Victoria was here in between jobs and looking for a new job to take to keep the guild in the public eye. She looked at the job list and was trying to find one to suit her interests and her slowly awakening desire to do something for someone besides herself when she was interrupted by knocking on the castle door. She carefully tacked the job list back onto the corkboard on which it had been found and carefully opened the castle door. A male traveler with an unusual egg was standing at the door. His magic signature let her know that the new guy was a mage.

"Hi there. I'm Victoria Sheridan of Sabertooth. What can I do for you?" The brown-haired mage asked the traveler. He looked like he had been traveling for quite some time in order to reach the castle. Maybe he was interested in joining up with Sabertooth.

Karasuki nearly fell when she leapt from the ferry. She had been all too eager to get back to her home, the guild. Her iLac was still gripped between her fingers, her heart was still racing from obtaining it. Her purple hair, tied into a side braid, bounced along on her shoulder as she half ran and half jogged her way through the train station. The journey she took back home felt much shorter with her worries and cares gone and she bounded off the train into the Ace of Spades, leaving the station behind. Her fears of entering neutral grounds, unsure of what might happen to her summoning powers or the pirate soul hidden inside of her mind, had vanished when she had left the grounds. Everything seemed rather normal and that was just how she had liked it. It seemed she had truly taken Kite's words to heart, about there being no people like him or people like her. There was a joy inside of her that could not be quenched, having conquered her fears before reaching Ace of Spades.

She had big bold plans when she returned. She was going to greet the guild members with gusto, she was going to spend time learning from the other members and aces, and she would finally take a deep breath knowing her magic was here to stay and deep down, she was meant to be a mage. "Ye, she aimed t' be a mage and 'ere she is. From rippin' innocent pirates outta books t' gettin' pocket devices. She has it all," Geralt sarcastically chimed in her head. Luckily for Karasuki, nobody had any idea of Geralt's existence. A summoning spell gone wrong as a child had entertwined the villain's soul with her own and it was her greatest and best-kept secret. Karasuki didn't reply back to him, choosing to not play his literal mind games.

She adjusted her red-framed glasses before concentrating on opening the portal. Karasuki stepped through the portal, and it was no less exciting than it had been the first time she had done it with Gaia and Ryo present. Her joining Sabertooth was still like living on a cloud for the young woman. She placed one hand on her bookbag's shoulder strap and the other held her new iLac. Karasuki dashed through the portal, into the room on the other side, with the expectation that the hall would be fairly empty and easy to traverse. She ran right through the shining opening and into a man holding an egg- in the middle of a conversation where he was being greeted by others in the guild.

Whether or not he maintained his balance or his grip on his egg, Karasuki stumbled off the man, trying to lessen how much damage she did by bouldering into him. She fell backward off her feet and onto her backside, the new iLac skittering from her hands and sliding across the floor. With a red face marked by her embarrassment, she looked up at the man she ran into. Her eyes ran across two presumed guild members she had never met, an ace of whom she had only seen in passing and had never the courage to introduce herself to, and of course, this man who markedly did not have a guild tattoo anywhere visible on his person. Geralt laughed heartily and whooped inside her mind, "And she sticks the landing! Let's hear th' applause fer the mage who has it all!" Karasuki made an annoyed face, meant to be directed at Geralt, but of course none of the people around her would know that. Quickly, she changed her expression to something apologetic.

"S-sorry, didn't mean to be in such a rush. You're not hurt, are you?" She asked the new male holding the egg, but her eyes flicked over to the ace wondering if she was going to get in trouble for the interruption. The violet-haired summoner quickly got to her knees and then up to her feet.

Victoria was glad to see Marink's enthusiasm about joining the guild grow by the moment. Even though she was a rank-and-file member, she had once been an Ace of Black Rose and knew the importance of making new guild members feel at home. Making new members feel welcome went a long way towards retaining them as members, but Aura did not need a lecture on proper Ace behavior. She had been an Ace of Sabertooth a lot longer than the brunette had been an Ace for Black Rose.

"I'm glad that you want to join Sabertooth, but I'm just an ordinary member. If you want the guild mark and everything, Kenna's the one you have to talk to. She's a Guild Ace." Victoria counseled Marink, pointing out Kenna to the eager young man. Kenna was the female mage with the sword on her back and the combat boots on her feet. The Guild Ace tended to stand out in a crowd even though the brunette had not met her before today.

Karasuki looked flushed with embarrassment. It was not a great first impression to be seen as the mage who couldn't stay on her feet or keep hold of the new iLac that she had went through so much to procure. She shyly twisted a piece of purple hair as the ace before her lifted the iLac from the floor. "Oh, thank you," She said softly, reaching out and accepting the iLac from the woman. "I'm fine, really. As long as he is," Karasuki looked at the man who had not seemed to take notice of her and then back at the ace, "I should really be going. I'm pleased to meet you. Let's, uh... talk sometime." In her mind, the pirate guffawed about her lack of etiquette and grace in the face of embarrassment but Karasuki gave a polite nod of her head and left quickly, hoping to find a place to hide her face.