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Arkantos looked forward, trying to ignore the endless rushes and jumps produced by the wheeled vehicle's engine.
What time was it? He couldn't tell, atleast three hours passed since he left the quarters. The road was rough: clearly the driver took a secondary road, a shortcut.

"Now,tell me a lil' boy? Why you goin' to the Woaden station? Plannin' to go somewhere?" The driver noticed that Arkantos woke up.
"Uh? Oh,yes. I'm planning to go to Afukira" Arkantos said,trying to avoid the possible dialogue
"Afukira? Woah,doesn't seem to be the perfect place for a vacation!" He replied with his accent. Clearly,he isn't from Clearwood.

It happened few days ago when Arkantos realized that the time slowed down on him. Normality and tranquility returned in Clearwood. When was his last assignment? Somewhat like one week ago but in truth, it was just yesterday. Looking himself at the mirror, he noticed that the black scar that tainted his sleep last night started to become lighter. That scar, when Bahamut's breath blasted him while trying to blind the dragon. "It's absurb! You ARE absurb! No way we're beatin' that down!" The comments of the Clearwoodian soldiers stationed there. Well,it didn't went well, but that attempt allowed the others to blow fatal hits. Himself, he avenged himself scratching Bahamut's wings. No, scratching is too much of a big word. The promise he made to Belle, the princess of Avory. He need to respect that pact. He decided that he was going to departure. Intercepting that nomad party is actually going to be hard thing, but one day or another he had to start. The day was now. After packing the necessary and the excess, Arkantos met the quartermaster. A nice person, but a little rude. After Arkantos explained everything and the Quartermaster agreed, it was done: He asked for a transport for the Aviary station of Woaden where he will fly to the North of Daughtris: There he wanted to start a methodical search for the Group. After all, if things doesn't go like he wanted, he can help the locals and change places. The route...was simple: Clearwood-Afukira, Afukira-Brunoma, Brunoma-Fishan, Fishan-Demotia, Demotia-Bestia and then the long journey to Lightwake. Everything is ordered following a logic: from the most obvious to the most passive place.

"Anyway, who're you boy?" The driver restarted the dialogue
"Arkantos... Arkantos Thendgrays" He replied.
"Woah,greetings!" He replied."We shouldn't be far...five minutes more!"
"Thanks" Arkantos muttered.

When Arkantos touched the ground, it was a sunny day. Near the small control tower, there was a medium sized, but long and sharp craft. I suppose that's my ship Arkantos thought, while a tall figure dressed in blue with an eye patch walked toward him and raised a hand firmly forward towards Arkantos. Arkantos gladly shook it.

"Name's Cpt. Neil,pleasure to meet you,Thendgrays" The Captain said.
"The Honor is mine" Arkantos replied and after all the pleasantries, Arkantos joined Neil's crew as special guest.

The Ship looked bigger than it is: it has two floors,and it is armed to the teeth. Sounded much more of a Military transport... or maybe this Airship WAS military.
Neil calls it "Zephyr" and Zephyr is renowed for her speed.
While the Captain explained the capabilities of the Airship, Arkantos looked around, memorizing everything.
After the Captain showed Arkantos's cabin, he announced the time-table.