When the day was going to the end and the golden sun was setting down painting all the skie with firery colors, ground was covered with a mist like it never has been before. The gentle breeze of the evening picked up growing stronger and colder.In a horizont a lithe form of a young looking woman showed up approaching the town slowly. She wore a long flattering dress of finest red silk with a golden trimmings. The golden band adorned her waist and two black sandals. Her face has been hidden under the hood of a velvet black cloack she wore. Only few wisps of her red hair could be seen now and then. There was a beautyfuly crafted brass ring on her finger of her left hand. Woman seemed to be mysterious...as if she would be from another world.

As soon aas she reache the center of the Lomedor she heads to the Inn to look for a place for a night or two. The tavern door pushed open as she stood in a dorrway and scanned the area calmnly.Tavern seemed to be cozy enough. Finaly the woman made her way towards the counter.Eache of her step and movement was full of grace and self comfidence. Even hidden under a hooded cloack, woman has been drowing attention to herself somehow. She seemed to have something special about herself, something what drows attention, causes people to trust her, to stare in wonder. "Good evening, sir" she spoke as finaly reached the counter and smiled warmly at bartender." Would there be any free room for me.I'd like to stay for a night or two."she said. "Sure, miss.....there is one.....not the best one but it's the only that left. "The bartender said handing her a key. "Thank you, sir. If you don't mind, i will pay before leaving"she said and bartender noded."Sure miss....as you wish"she said"Oh and....may i get a glass of a red sweet wine, please." the woman asked. "One moment...."the bartenbed said and soon there were a glass of wine standing infront of her.She smiled some sitting at the bar."Thank you so kindly, sir." she said and took a sip of wine closing her brown eyes and then reopens them after a short moment."That's a good one..."

Arthur sat at a table in the pub drinking some mead. He was just idely watching the coming and goings of the crowd not taking in real interest in them. Every now and then someone he knew as a regular would come up and ask him how he was and such. Arthur answered and then went back to people watching as he liked to call it. Then a hooded woman walked in for that what she was the way she walked and looked Arthur coudl easliy tell she was a woman.

People stopped and started and he knew why she was allruign in a gracefull sense somethign almost magical and mysterious at one. HE knew this was no ordinary woman. Very few woman could make him stop and look at them and see grace and beauty. It was the dragon in him he guessed or else his tastes. HE watched as she walked up to the bartender and ordered a room in a drink. Even though in human form Arthur heard there conversation. Such a being did not need those lowly accomidations.

He took the last sip of his drink and walked up to the bar and said to the bartender," How bout some wine tonight Tom, I need some sweeter than what I got". He then turned to the woman and said," That drinks on me if that alright mam, its a shame none of the others in here offered. It would have been the gentlemanly thing to do".

She heared the man speak to her and perked her eyebrow. A slight smile played upon her sweet lips who ever so tempting to steal a kiss from her. " Well thank you, good sir" she said.Her voice sounded warm and almost angelic." I see no shame if no one buys me a drink..i am not used to it"she said glancing at him. This time he could see her face partly.This face of a angel girl. Her brown eyes showing off expierence, wisdom and much more than that. She removed the hood with just one movent of her slender hand revealing the living flames of her long red hair. " Still i am happy that there are still such gentlmen as yourself in this world, sir"she said with a smile and takes a sip.


(nice to see ya again, Arthur)

( I know you can't remember from when)

Arthur smiled at her when she took her hood off. She was more than pretty the women he had met before had nothing on her and he had seem drop dead gorgeous girls in his life. She was more than they were. He said," Its no problem, I just can't stand the thought of such a rarity as yourself paying for anything". He chuckled at that hoping he had not gone a bit to far. HE then said," No need to call me sir, the name is Arthur, I am a performer here". He bowed his head to her because he could not bow his body in here.

He then said," Now if I may ask such a beauty as you must have a name, or should I just call you beauty for that is what your are" He smiled his best smile at her while he waited on her reply.

She blinked some at the shower of his compliments but didn't flush at all.She was used to compliments and always shows the same reaction - always calmn and polite. "Well thank you but i don't think that i am so beautyful....your words making me to feel like a rare jewel to find whitch i am not ."she said with a smile."My name is Daphne Delacroix - performer, traveler, garden keeper and sometimes fortune teller"she said. "It's pleasure to meet you, Arthur. The tales are going about you"she smiles."You are famous man"she said and took another sip. He couldn't ever tell that she is tired for she shows no sign of tiredness. The inner streangh of hers is as big as her charisma is.

It had been a long day for Fira Trist and she was exhausted after such a long day of wandering about in the wilderness without any idea as to where she was going.

Now, she found herself lost within a strange place that she had never before seen. The orange haired woman wondered why she had stormed away from her home in such a fuss and how she had managed to get lost.

Yet there was a strange feel about this place. A feeling that there was something here that was beckoning her toward this specific location.

Wanting to seek some rest, she headed into one of the nearby taverns to get away from the coming night. As much as Fira did not know where she was, she did not want to remain outside when the sun was not out. Especially with the odd pull and the strangers of the land.

Daphne glanced at the newcomer and watched her carefully. A orange haired woman seemed to feel familiar but she wondered how. She throw a warm welcoming smile to this young woman and took a sip. "So..you say you a peformer, hmm, Arthur.That's interesting." she said. "Hmmm..it's getting late...."she said and finished her glass of wine."Too bad tis wine finished already.."sighs some"Oh well....". She yawned some covering her moth and begins to humm some mellody more to herself than to anyone else. The anyone would watch her the more she would seem as if she'd be not from this world. Daphne seemed to want to dance or to sing, her soul was in boredom, this soul of a phoenix. She took a knife and slit her finger slightly then casts a minor heal spell then wound regenerates slowly. Such things she dows now and then out of boredom.

Hesitantly, Fira casted her orange eyes around the room in search of something that would make her feel more at home. In the end, however, she saw nothing and sagged her shoulders in dispair. Not knowing anyone had never seemed like a big issue until now.

She sat down at the bar with the aura of depression. Her thoughts were no longer on the strange summon here. The woman wanted to go home and could not wait for the sun to rise.

Looking around for something of interest, her eyes rested upon a young looking woman with red hair. There was something familiar about her. Something too familiar...

Fira decided to take her chances and walked over softly to the woman. She questioned gently, "Excuse me, my lady. Have we ever met before?"

She blinked slight as has been spoken to and glanced at the young lady with her warm brown eyes.She obviously felt the same feeling of familiarity about that girl.A soft smile crossed her sweet lips and parted to speak." Not in this life, miss.But perhaps...in one of our past lives.."she said with a smile and motions for her sit beside."Please take a sit" she offered kindly. "Hungry? Thirsty? Or just lost?" she took her guess and waved for the bartender."Please give everything what this lady will ask, sir...my treat"she said with a smile. "We all had a long day.."

Fira politely thanked the woman for her kindness and asked the bartender for a small amount of wine.

"Thank you, my lady," the orange haired woman sighed wearily, finally sensing that she was among friends for the first time since being here. Her rounded face held her traces of embarrassment as she explained, "You are quite right. I am lost... I am glad that I seem to know you, though." Fira tilted her head curiously. "A past life? As in reincarnation? I would have never imagined that I myself would end up within two lives, if not multiple ones."

"Oh yes, my dear. Reincarnation. We all are living multiple lives..it contines untill we reach the perfection...."she shruged some. I seem to have a very tragic past life."she said still with a smile. "My name is Daphne"she said."And you are most welcome". The bartender soon placed a glass of red wine infront of Fira and glanced at Daphne. "refill mine, please..it seems i'll stay for a bit longer"she said with a calmn smile. "So....what is your name and how in the world you got lost in such a place?" she asked in a polite warm tone.It was obviosly Daphne was a bit lost herself.

Arthur watched as the strange orange eyed girl came up to Daphne he remianed silent content to watch them talk as he sipped. They paid no notice to him and made a signal to the bar keep that both drinks were on him. Finally he got up and took out his fiddle to perform and got up where the performers performed.

He tuned it to make sure it was ready. Finally he began by strikiing a nice dancing tuen to his fiddle and began to sing,"

We go out to a party somewhere
The moment we walk in the door
People stop and everybody stares
She don't know what they're staring for

She don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful
Though time and time I've told her so

There she goes just walking down the street
And someone lets a whistle out
A girl like her she just can't see
What the fuss is all about

And she don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful
Though time and time I've told her so

(Musical interlude)

Morning comes and her hair's all a mess
That's when she thinks she looks her worst
It's times like this she don't know why
I can't take my eyes off her

'Cause she don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful
Though time and time I've told her
She don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful
Though time and time I've told her
She don't know she's beautiful (never crossed her mind)
She don't know she's beautiful (no she's not that kind)
She don't know she's beautiful
Though time and time I've told her so".

Before answering Daphne, Fira glanced over to the performer with an awkward glance. How had she not realized that he had been sitting there as well? She made a mental note to apologize to him the first time that she was able to.

"My name is Fira Trist and I... I wandered a bit too far from my home and mother. To be honest, I have not wandered around much." She faltered and lost her concentration suddenly. "Am I keep you, Lady Daphne? If I am, you can go ahead and go? I do not mean to do so."

She laughted slightly at her question."No not at all..i like company.."she said and smirked slightly with a thought in her mind. "Please stay..."Daphne listened to the girl and to the music too that she liked. "He is talented, isn't he?"she noted and glanced at Fira."Well it's nice to meet you, Fira. Jus be careful here in Arda..even thought i'm new here too yet i know that Arda might be a dangerous place....whereever you go.....be careful. "She said.The bartender finaly brought her order and she noded with a smile and glanced at the wine. "I see another person...."she said. Someone will join us.....i think...i am sure...."she said.For a moment she drifted into memories about her former employer Nathaniel. They were very good friends yet she has a bad feeling about him..as if something bad happened....She has been there when he needed after loss of his love....but when Daphne left.....something really happened.

Arthur bowed when he finished the crowd clapped a few of the women in the bar waved at him as if he meant that song for them. Arthurs music had that affect sometimes. He was a good performer one of the best or so some peopel said. Arthur just liked playing. He did not step down though thinking already of another song to play. He put the bow to the fiddle and began to play a more joyful melody.

The song went on about how a raven would not let a deer get a drink of water. It went through several animals each a comical story the music adding to the jollyness of it. A few of the people acutally got up and danced to it and some threw coins his way because the song pleased them. Arthur didn't pay attention though he was lost to the musics flow time had no meanign when he was doing what he loved.

Finally he finished and bowed to the crowd again and left the stage and went to where Daphne sat and grabbed his wine and took a logn drink and said to her," So Daphne, what did you think, not my best work but the crwod sure has livined up".

She smiled some at Arthurs words snapping out of her thoughts and noded."That was really good.I liked it"she said and took a sip of wine then closed her eyes. It seems she forgot the time, her tiredness.Those two persons had some good affect upon her.She felt good, just drifting into thoughts now then.The worry went away. She glanced throught the window - the sun was already rising. A small smile crossed her lips at her sillyness - instead of going to rest she is chit chatting with strangers.But what can she do? She feels like it.....perhaps she need to forget everything?It is destiny that brought her here and made to meet those people.And she knew this was only the beginning.

"Thank you for your advice," Fira replied kindly to Daphne's words after committing them to at least a part of her memory. She bowed slightly with respect and then gave a weary glance over to her other company who appeared to be ignoring her. With a sigh, the woman decided to continue on with her conversation with the red haired woman. "Pardon me, my lady, but although I do know portions about reincarnation, I do not know of people who have been acting within such terms. What has it been like for you?"

"I do not know much about my past life but....it makes such a sence that it wasn't too easy and rosy..."she said with a smile and took a sip from her drink. "It hard to find it out. The memories returns from past life as dreams....as strange visions and you can't even realize what it was for real...."she said and sighed some."I feel as if would have loose someone dear.....i want to find it out or else my soul won't have any peace.."

Fira felt an overwhelming amount of sympathy for the brown eyed woman. She could not manage to imagine losing someone dear to her. It would be too terrible. The orange eyed woman felt for sure that Daphne had a great amount of courage; for otherwise, it might have been hard for her to continue living her life.

Cautiously, the woman reached out her left hand to touch Daphne's with respect. Fira suggested softly, "Perhaps I could help you."

She smiled slightly at young lady before her and glanced at her hand that touched her own. "Sure...i'll accept any help"she said with a smile."Prhaps we can help to each other. Somewhy you seem to be very familiar to me.....strange because have never met in our lives. But...maybe..there is something more than that...beyond this life....."she said and winked slight. "I do believe....that when two persons are very close and their relationship is very strong then never parts away and after death they returns to each other in next life"she said."That's why sometimes when two strangers meets they feel familiar to each other as if they would have knew each other since early childhood."

Fira nodded swiftly in agreement. Daphne's words made clear sense to her. Although this was the first time that she had ever experienced something like this before.

Feeling only slightly awkward, she removes her hand gently and said, "Yes. Perhaps if we do help each other, then I will find out why I do feel as though I know you. With any sort of luck, I might even be able to remember... Yet, please know that I do not do this for any sort of selfish reasoning. I truly wish to help you with this. My motives are pure."

She smiled wearily at her own words. She sounded so strange; even to her own ears! The woman shook her head and then used her hands to delicately straighten it back into place. Sheepishly she whispered, "Sorry for how odd that sounded. Perhaps I am too noble."

Daphne smiled at Fira's words and shook her head slightly. "I believe you.There is no need to explain anything, my friend. I can see from your eyes that are a good person"she said.Of couse she truly believs her but just because her perfect sixth sence always is right when it comes to people and new friends or allies. "It's getting late. I think we should go sleep and tomorrow we will begin our little adventure."she winked her brown eye.


(sorry for shortness.i'm a bit tired)

Fira nodded in agreement. After the tiresome day that she has been through, any amount of sleep would do her justice.

Wearily, she looked over to the man with concern. Why was he not saying anything? She shook her head to scatter away these thoughts, sending her hair outwards in a wayward array.

Finally, she refocused slightly onto the topic at hand, feeling her eyelids become heavy. "Where do you think that would it be that we would start?"

(Sorry that my post is short.)