Giri

"Hi Carth!" a figure behind him shouted although it might as well have been a damn mace to his head the way it was pounding and before he could turn around to see who had called him (the fact that they knew his name didn't concern him, everyone did in the building) a weight was suddenly clinging to his back and the momentum it had hit him with caused him to fall on his hands and knees causing him to yelp as his right arm was a blazed with pain, the stone felt as if it was groaning under the weight it had to currently endure. He tried to push himself back up but his head felt heavier than lead at the time and so he collapsed to the floor his hangover getting the best of him. "Shhhhhhh, my head is killing me if I didn't know any better I'd wish it away." He groaned, trying to pry off the body on his back to no avail. His mind was swimming through his head which made thinking straight nigh on impossible but still he was able to process the fact that never had any of the servants of the building or the guards had ever tackled him like this raising the question who it could possibly be?

”Could you please tell me who you are and for the love of Giri could you be quiet please?" He asked groggily not turning his head from the cold floor to see who was still residing on his back.

The answer he got from the girl was disappointing, he expected some grand explanation which he half expected would involve his mysterious father. "Oh and that I'm your servant and bodyguard, cool right?" A smile lit up her face giving him a better chance to examine her features as he thought of what should be said and after looking for several moments he came down to the conclusion that she was attractive but that was it, there wasn't any sign of her age on her face nor her eyes for they both showed wisdom of age and yet a youthful energy but then again it could have been the alcohol speaking already.

Carth sighed at this downing the liquor in the glass before he helped himself to the entire bottle, pouring the liquid down his throat to his heads delight. "I don't want a servant and I definitely don't want a body guard." He said flatly after he wiped his mouth from a trickle of whiskey. "And what do you mean by linked and what was it you said before? Dragon of the wishes stone?" He queried, taking off his glove, which caused him to wince as the fabric scraped along the gem and placed the back of his hand on the table so she could have a look at it.

He mulled over what she told him in his head while he drank from his bottle some more, already the alcohol had begun to affect him causing his head to feel light. He did have servants and guards at the castle but they weren't technically his and more like on loan as long as he stayed in the village it was the same every where they went; the nobles would give him somewhere to stay along with some of their servants and guards in a attempt to gain his favourable hopefully be granted a wish which the lands of Giri had began to notice that Carth had some sort of magical talent. "They aren't my servants and I'll be going soon, this town isn't in need of any more help, I've done all I can." He was being truthful he had done as much as he could without killing himself, he just decided to leave the latter out.

She still hadn't told him what she meant by dragon but he decided that wasn't important at the moment what was important was moving to the next town or village before The Lord of the land came to ask for a wish, something that would undoubtably be selfish and un beneficial to anyone but themselves and although he didn't trust this strange girl, company would be nice while he traveled and so far fear of his father and also his usefulness had deterred any attempts on his life so he was not in any known danger. "I don't want any servants or body guards I am capable of looking after myself, I'm fairly decent with a blade." He started trying to hide his pride in his swordsmanship. "And besides if worse comes to worse I have other means to protect myself." He lifted his hand from the table to put meaning behind his words. "Although I hope I never have to use it for such manners." He whispered to himself, slipping the glove back on with a wince.

He got up from the table and began walking to the door. "I'll be heading back to fetch my gear then I'll head out." He was already walking out the door when he realised he had forgot something, turned around back to the table and grabbed the half empty bottle of whiskey. "You coming or what." With this he made his out of the inn.

For the few moments that Carth was tossed around, his head was a mess and for a second he thought he could hear a voice in his head. " make a wish" it seemed to whisper and he was very close to appyling with the voice when he came face to face with something he never in his life thought he'd see. A Dragon. He looked at it's large reptilian eyes in a cold emotionless stare, fear you see had drained away from him and left an emptiness in it's absence but there was something in the dragon's eyes that the defencless man couldn't quite make out; was it hunger, malice or (and he thought he was crazy with fear for even thinking this) a sort of mischevious delight. What ever it was he didn't have long enough to figuire it out as the dragon had flipped him into the air and the last thing he saw was it's open maw as he closed his eyes and braced for death.

He was completely surprised that not ony was he able to open them but that in place of the winged reptile there now stood Tonima. "Sorry Carth, a girl's gotta have her fun. I promise I won't do it again." The smile she gave him made it hard for him to stay mad at her but the fact she had done that to him and abused her 'power' stung Carth a bit as he looked down at his missing ring finger. He walked past the still smiling girl towards what he believed was the direction of the closest settlement and called back to her to hurry up, when she had he merely looked at her, still feeling the sting of her little joke. "Don't do anything even remotely similar to that again." He stated, his voice sounding surprisingly flat even to him. "You don't know how dangerous that situation was then." A flickerof guilt started to emerge as he recalled almost complying with that voice in his head. "And please don't abuse what you have, I've made that mistake before." He motioned to his left hand as he lifted it slightef.