White Death

A small yawn left the bunny girl as she opened her office door. Not much for one with words as she looked inside the office and shut her door, she saw two of her companions curled up together asleep in their spirit forms. The long water snake spirit, Eliyares gently coiling her body about the angelic spirit Raphael. It was a rather adorable scene to see and for a moment it racked a smile onto her face to see it. As much as she normally would be inclined to want to join that small group in their antics of cute and unexpected activities, she had set her sight onto something else. Aside from the lack of major activity, it was becoming a little lack luster around the place. Both in the confines of work as well as it had been peaceful. Sure, the towns still suffered a lot of delinquency, however her right hand man was on top of that like Gisen on a pile of free carrots. Probably not with all the same enthusiasm as the elemental would have, but she admired his work ethic... well, what she knew of it anyway.

Something had been bothering her recently... Something that had slowly eating away at the normal peppy and normal type of attitude that those around her were used to. What it was, she couldn’t find the faintest idea of what it could be, but she had no idea what she could do at all at that point about it. Things seemed too calm here and frankly, if not for her ties to the Rune Knights as they were, she would probably move off to other countries to begin seeing if their issues would be the same as Fiore had. No matter, if the issue were grand enough, she’d go there be it on her own time or in the name of the Knights. The brunette bunny girl wandered over to her seat and dropped herself in it, letting out a sigh. Hands stuffed into her coat pockets as she looked down at her nearly empty desk that she had. Paperwork was caught up, no assignments needed yet attention, nothing to do... how do humans possibly survive not having work to do? If only she could go back to the simpler times of having nothing to do and just going out to hang out with the animals in the jungles. Oh well.

A moment of silence was interrupted by a solitary sound of paper. The page of a book to be precise. Her longest lived relation to a person she had, Silvia, had been relaxing with a rather thick looking book in her hands. The bunny girls eyes settled down to the Sylph as she read and the spirit never once taking her eyes off of the page. ”I can give you some writing assignments again if you want something to do. That way you don’t have to stare at me like a creepy stranger.” Again, she flipped a page and her eyes moved to the top of the page to begin the next page of her book. Then a ding rung out in the office, making Silvia set down her book to pick up an iLac, seeing a message on it. She raised a brow in confusion on the person whom sent the message, but when she saw its contents, she put on a small smile. ”You got a message from General Stern, Gisen. He’d like to meet you here to speak about going on a job. Says here a monster is capable of turning Desierto into an icy wasteland.” She said, beginning to type back a reply to him that meeting in the office wouldn’t be a problem at all. ”I still don’t get why I can’t use my own phone thingy...” The elemental commented, her eyes slightly glaring at the Sylph with a pouting face. ”Because of the last 6 you’ve had... you either had it destroyed in jobs or in your hands holding it too hard.” she replied, getting up to walk over to a drawer of her desk, opening it up to several crushed and smashed iLac’s laying inside. ”And these are the reminders of that. Now, when General Stern arrives, try not to be too overly excited please?” Shutting the drawer, the wind spirit would lock the screen of the iLac and set it into her dress pocket before taking her seat again.

"Hold up!" A peppy voice chimed in, bouncing up from her nap. The animal like spirit form of the angel perked up from the coil of the third with her, looking over to the pair in their discussion. "You’re telling me Captain Hunky is coming here!? Eeeeeee!" Squealing like a happy, lovestruck teen, Raphael has alerted the horde of Knights walking to and from other areas around the office. The Sylph simply sighed, facepalming and shaking her head. "It’s General, you simpleton. And keep your voice down, you’re right next to someone whom is trying to sleep, you pea brained angel." She retorted, not holding back much in the way of insulting nicknames. Then again, she had called Gisen rodent for years without the elemental giving much care to it, really... but it also took her almost as long to learn what a rodent was, so there was that.

A knock on her door caused the angel to pop right up into her normal appearance, ribbons and all and popped open the door with a fierce joy. A knight stood there that clearly wasn’t Shane and she began to look around him, even to pick the Knight up to look underneath him. "What the hell are you doing, you nitwit!?" The Sylph yelled out from inside the room while the angel threw a minor hissy fit walking away. "Sorry about that... did you have something for me?" Trying to excuse her companions behavior, the Knight entered and put down a recent report with a note on the front of the report folder Mx abruptly excusing himself in a hasty manner. "What the hell is wrong with you, Raphael? You can’t just do that to a person! And furthermore- No, I’m.. im gonna stop. Sorry if I woke you up, Eliyares." Lowering her head in a sigh, the combat general simply remained silent, rather neutral in her decision of whether to file that as amusement or ignorance...

Things we’re beginning to settle down within the elementals office now that the situation between the angel and Sylph had digressed into nothing. At risk of making things worse, it was stopped before it could continue, however it didn’t mean it would last that long anyway. There was almost always a reason that some kind of argument would flare up, but normally it wouldn’t turn into something like what was happening before, however this was something different. Involving a clear breach in both ethics and personal space, it was seen that Raphael was a big mess for this case and having her step out of the room to get drinks was probably the optimal choice. Granted, it meant her getting distracted at other attractive Knights, but the angel had promised to behave. Either she meant it... or she was that excited to see Shane around the office. Who knew what that spirit thought at times... and for an Angel, she was NOT that pure in some cases either. But that was probably just something that came with the territory.

While she was out, a knock came to the closed door. The two whom were awake at the time looked over before Silvia pounced up and opened the door to find the General standing there. ”Oh, hello General Stern. Please, come in.” She greeted, giving a light curtsy before she moved aside, allowing him to enter while motioning to the empty chairs of the office. Leaned back in her chair, Gisen silently smiled and waved in a more laxed manner. ”Hey there~ Is it ok to call you Shane? I know like, sometimes being called by title can be completely draining sometimes. But like, don’t get me wrong! I love it!” The bunny girl smiled his way, standing up as she would for any other general or even Serilda or Mythal. ”Take a seat, please.” Gisen offered, her hand gesturing towards a seat and taking her own right after. Meanwhile, the silent third still fast asleep, coiled up in her own spirit form while she continued to rest up.

The General then placed down pictures onto the desk. A small sigh of relief came that these were pictures. Trying to read and imagine what was to be interpreted on paper was still a long ways away for the elemental, but her eyes peered immediately onto one landscape view. Her hands deftly snatched the picture up, to which had even surprised the Sylph. Usually she was ever that fast in combat or playing “snatch the carrot” with Raphael. In essence, the same as whomever can grab a crumpled up dollar bill while hands hovered it, except you replace the money with a carrot. It helped pass some time. It was also the last time Silvia ever left the angel in charge of teaching her anything...

With an eerie silence, her eyes glanced over every pixel of that picture before she took the others one at a time. Then, it came to a village that was struck. Buildings hardened up and left coated in ice caused a flash of memory in the bunny girls head. Her eyes had even begun to show a look of realization. She had seen this before, and taking pictures after Gisen set them down, the look of fear settled into the Sylph. Even she began to recognize this type of damage. ”Gisen... is-” The Combat general immediately shot up from her seat and the gritting of her teeth bore. ”It is a Monster. It’s one even I couldn’t beat on my own... in fact, this.. whatever it was caused my amnesia.” She paused as a small grin formed on her face. ”But I’m up to thanking it.” With that, Gisen had grabbed her uniform coat off of a wall hook she had for her “excess layers”. Being something that doesn’t feel heat nor cold was a blessing sometimes when it came to looking cute!

”Silvia, message the major general and tell him we’re going now and we’ll meet him there. Hey Eli, up for some fun?” The water spirit picked her head up, one eye cracking open and then the other. Giving just a nod, the snake like spirit began uncoiling herself as she headed along with the two generals. ”And like, along the way, I’ll be sure to tell you just what I can remember from that fight and what it did to my last guild.” Once her coat was on, she would lead the charge out of the room, the two spirits looking toward one another in a mutual wonder of how mentally kept Gisen was in this moment.