Scholar of the Arcane [Open]

[Morgan Droud]

Esderand sighed as the towering white stone walls came into view. He had been away from the Tower for almost half a century, and it hadn't changed at all.

On the outside, that is.

He knew perfectly well that there would definitely be plenty of people he wouldn't recognize, and that there would be some very long explanations due after arriving, but that could wait. Before him was his true home, and he was back.

[Ice]

It was quiet here as a young female moved through the woods. She looked like a normal young girl on the outside. However this was not the case at all. She hid a beast inside of her. A monster creature who fed on those who tried to bring harm to the girl. But for the moment this beast was sleeping.

She now stopped walking as she caught the sent of anouter creature. She was not sure who or what was out here. However instinct made her want to follow the strange smell. So she moved in silence as she trailed the smell. As she found the sorce she have a frown. It was a human. She feared human beings. Even though she looked like one herself.

She growled warning him that she was here. She did not want him to get to close to where she was though. She just wanted him to know she was here.

[Morgan Droud]

Esderand glanced over at the edge of the nearby woods, and listened for a moment. He thought he had heard something from that direction a few seconds ago, but now that he was paying attention he couldn't hear anything.

Dismissing it, he stepped forward and passed through the Tower's wards. To anyone watching from outside, it would appear as if he had just vanished.

[Ice]

Vega frowned as she watched the odd human now. Then as he moved he suddenly disappeared. Now that was very strange to her. She moved to where he had been standing. She sniffed the area wondering what had just happened. How the heck did the man just disappear. Then it hit her he must have been magic. Which meant that he could possibly hurt her some how. That was not a one thing to her at all.

[Morgan Droud]

When the grass behind him moved, Esderand looked behind him to see a woman standing where he had been a few moments prior. She wasn't part of the Tower, as she couldn't see through the barrier, but she appeared to have been watching him.

A frown briefly crossed his face as he tried to figure out what to do here. Most of the people who lived here held some level of dislike towards spellcasters, a minor inconvenience they had to live with, and whenever the Tower was discovered, there would normally be a large force sent against it.

Weighing the options in his head, he decided on a course of action, and froze time in a small sphere around the two of them.

"Who are you, and why are you here."

[Ice]

Vega was concerned as she stood there . She kind of wanted to run away at that moment. She was not trusting of those that used magic. Though she would never turn them in. She was not human herself. She sniffed the air trying to see if the man was near her . That's when she felt a strange feeling. Magic was being used here.

Vega then frowned as she saw the man again . She growled a bit not sure what to say. She did not talk very often to others. However she would answer his questions. " Vega is name. Vega was here hunting. Vega must feed herself." She said to him softly now.

[Morgan Droud]

"Hunting? Here? In the middle of nowhere?"

As far as Esderand knew, there wasn't another city anywhere near them, so her claim to be hunting was unusual. But everything about her was unusual, her actions reminded him of a beast, not a human.

"Then... What are you?"

[Ice]

Vega watched the man with a bit of interest. She was not sure if the man intended to hurt her but he seemed to be okay at the moment. So she was trying to keep herself calm right now. She looked him as he spoke once again.

" Yes Vega hunt here. This is Vega home. " She said to him now. She looked at him as he stood there. She could smell his sent at this range. It was not that bad really. It seemed human to her. Humans though always meant danger for her.

" Vega is a beast. A monster Vega thinks. " She told him with a frown. She never remembered what happened when the monster came out. All she knew was that people died and she had to run away. That was all she knew.

[Morgan Droud]

"A monster? How so?"

Though she claimed to be a monster, Esderand couldn't figure out how so. She didn't seem to be magical, and he would have noticed if she was a shapeshifter. She simply looked human.

[Ice]

Vega looked at the man when he asked anouther question. She was not sure what she should say to him. She was quiet for a second as if she was considering his question. " Vega no remember what happens when beast come out. Vega just know that she hurt people. " She said to him. She was not sure how else to explain that to him.

[Morgan Droud]

"The beast within, huh?"

From her words, he judged that the "beast" she spoke of was likely Lycanthrope, of a similar condition. It wasn't something he was very familiar with, but he guessed there would be a few books,on it in the Tower.

"Care to join me for a while?"

[Ice]

Vega still was not sure if she wanted to trust this man. Though he seemed interested in her for some reason. That made her wonder why. Though she was one of those creatures who did not ask many questions. She just whent with the flow and let thing reveal themselves in time. Everyone always showed their real intentions .

" Yes that's it." Vega said to his first question. She then kind of smiled when he asked if she wanted to join him. It had been a very long time since someone had wanted to be around her. Atleast for very long. " Vega would not mind that. " She said with a smile.

" What is you name?" Vega asked him softly now. She wanted to at least have a name to go with this man's face.

[Morgan Droud]

"The Scholar of Time, Esderand."

He walked over to the woman and placed a hand on her forehead, whispering something under his breath. A silver rune glowed under his hand for an instant before fading, allowing her to see through the Tower's wards.

"Welcome to my home."

[Ice]

Vega listened when the man told her his name. She was not sure what a scholar was our even what time was. She never had the chance to learn such things. "Vega is glad to learn name" she told him now.

She felt the instinct to back away when he came closer. However she stood still wanting to know what he was doing. She flinched when he touched her head. She could feel that he was using magic. That made her a little bit uncomfortable.

She then could see that they were not outside. They were in some sort of building. She never liked human homes. They always felt like cages to her.

" It is very nice home." She said to him with a bit of a nervous tone to her voice. She was not sure what she should do though.

[Morgan Droud]

"Yes, that is most certainly is."

Esderand was a little confused at the sudden transition, but after thinking about it a bit, it seemed logical. It probably wouldn't be too hard to make a ward to transfer anyone using magic into the Tower, but he found it nice to know plenty of research had been going on while he was gone. Heasing over to the door, he found it locked.

"Uh, give me a minute."

After calling over to the woman, he pushed against the door some more, then switched to a spell to unlock it. When that failed, he thought over it a bit more, then slumped against the wall.

"Heh, er, how do I put this?"

Looking over at the woman, then back at the door, he revealed his thoughts.

"We, appear to be locked in..."

[Ice]

Vega listened to the man as he spoke. She was unsure of the man still but he didn't seem to want to harm her. She was quite as he moved over to the door. "Okay Vega will wait" she told him softly. What else was there to do?

She watched him noting that he seemed unable to get it open. That was not very good. But why would he have trouble if this was his home? Did he not have a key?  She blinked when he seemed to give up. So now she was stuck here with this odd man. Well that was certainly not what she expected.

"So you stuck here with Vega. That not good ." She stated to him. She then gave him a slight smirk . " It kinda funny though." She told him now. To her it was rather funny for the man to be stuck in his own house. Though it did mean that she was also stuck here with him. That was not quite as funny.

[Morgan Droud]

"Yeah, I guess it..."

The sound of marching footsteps came from the other side of the door, stopping just outside. The lock clicked, and a man in a silver robe incredibly similar to Esderand's looked in, staring at them.

Why did they change the robes? What was wrong with the old ones?

As Esderand stared at him in confusion, the man pulled a crystal out of his pocket and tossed it into the center of the room before pulling the door shut. A moment later, the crystal glowed amber, and exploded in a burst of arcane energy pulling the two towards it.

A storage crystal!? That usage of those on living being was forbidden!

As that thought raced through his head, the vortex consumed him and everything went black.


[There is definitely a plot here! It's not just because I just really like trapping people in pocket universes!]

[Ice]

Vega frowned as she heard the sound of some walking near the door. So this man living with other people. She wondered if that meant they could get out. As the man entered she glanced at the other man . He was dressed like the other man. Now that struck her as odd to say the least.

Than then man threw something on the ground and closed the door. The loud sound and the feeling of magic really kind of frightened her. She wondered what was going on here.  That was when she was dragged into the magic void with the strange man . Now this was a bad situation.



(( Alrighty sounds like it'll be a fun plot))

[Morgan Droud]

When his eyes opened, what greeted Esderand was an expanse of greeen crystal. In the distance a giant wall of a similar crystal stood towering into the sky, forming a massive pyramid.

So this is what the inside of a storge crystal looks like. Interesting.

Though this was  obviously forbidden research, he still felt impressed at whoever had sucessfully managed this. It wasn't easy to turn an object made for storage of inanimate objects into what could only be called a perfect prison, but someone had, and he had the privledge of seeing it first hand. He came back to reality when he heard someone waking up next to him, and remembered Vega.

[Ice]

Vega was out for a little while. When she finally awoke she blink serval times trying to figure out what had just happened. She sat up a bit and frowned at the strange surroundings. She was aware that they weren't in the same place that they were before. But she did not know where here was.  She glanced at the odd man with a slightly confused look.

" What happen ? Where we are? " she asked him. Even thw beast that she held inside was afraid of this place.