Alicia was given a start by Dalton"s sudden outburst. It took her a few minutes to figure out why he was so surprised. But she then remembered that dragons were rarely seen by humans. So it was no wonder that Dalton was surprised. "Yes, Loeri is a dragon and I am contracted with her. She was left alone in the forest for a long time. I had just happened to meet her while out training in the Demonic Forest.""Wait! Alicia, you trained in the Demonic Forest?" Dalton had another startling discovery that made him quickly forget about Loeri being a dragon! Such a young girl forced to train in such a place. He really wondered what went through that man"s head! The man in question was of course Berlin. Dalton knew that Berlin"s methods were a bit extreme when training. He thought back to his training when his entire order was forced to run through a mountain range while constantly under a barrage of magic spells. There were many, many times where he thought he was going to lose his life and came pretty close to it as well.
"Yes… I had to go to the center of the Demonic Forest to retrieve a scroll. It wasn"t too bad until I got the scroll area where a few thousand prisoners were placed to guard the scroll. Only then was it pretty tough since I started to get exhausted from all the fighting. Before that, there were hordes of demonic beasts as well." Alicia casually explained. She was already numb to Berlin"s harsh training by that point so to her it was not that big of a deal.
Dalton let out a long sigh. This girl was so young but already had to face such harsh training. "Old man you sure are rough even on a young girl!"
Alicia, Loeri, Frey, and Blake all arrived with Dalton at the little cottage in the back of his estate. The cottage was not large. It had two small bedrooms, a small living area, and a small kitchen. Its rock wall design and arched room gave it a very cozy feeling. "This is where you will be staying while you are here in Parith. It"s a little small. I hope you do not mind."
"It"s plenty big enough for Loeri, Frey, and I. We will only be staying for about three days if that is okay. Master Berlin wants me to get to the capital as early as I can so that I can register at the Adventurers Guild and do some requests from there before the squire test" Alicia said. Although this is what Master Berlin had asked her to do. She also wanted to get to the capital quickly. From her time on earth, she had read a few fantasy novels that had spoken of adventurer guilds as well. She wanted to know if they differed from what she knew of on earth to what they were actually like.
"That is fine. You may stay as long as you would like. Oh! Seems they are here." Dalton heard footsteps coming up from behind him and quickly turned around. "Alicia this is my son Scott and my wife Ela. Scott, Ela, this is Alicia. She has done a great deed for the Alastine Kingdom and helped me greatly by getting rid of bandits on her way to the capital. The white beast on her head is named Loeri and the little girl on her shoulder is Alicia"s adopted daughter Frey. Frey is a little special. The young man next to her is her future husband Blake. Also, they are both very close acquaintances to Berlin..." Dalton said the last line for his wife to understand that these were special guests. A woman around Dalton"s age with long brown hair that went to her waist and a young boy around twelve years old also with brown hair was standing at the cottage entrance behind Rebecca.
Alicia"s face turned red from Dalton"s little joke. She wanted to correct him but was quickly interrupted by Dalton"s wife Ela. "He"s no..."
Ela looked at Alicia with her long golden blonde hair and blue eyes, the beautiful and well proportioned face, and instantly fell in love. "Such a cute child! Your hair is so beautiful! I can hardly imagine you holding a sword and killing things. How about this you become my daughter and I will spoil you rotten!"
Rebbecca suddenly burst out crying from her mother"s words: "Mother doesn"t love me no more! She wants to throw me away for a blonde bimbo!"
"Ah! Child! I was only joking and you are saying rude things to our guest! Where did you even learn such words!?" Ela scolded. She knew her daughter was spoiled but she never knew she had such a vocabulary!
"They say it on the Magivision! I heard it on a show last night. There were blonde girls and people were calling them bimbos!" Alicia did not know whether to laugh or cry. She had already guessed that Magivision was this world"s equivalent of Television but why was it some of the stereotypes were the same as the ones on earth!? She was not a bimbo okay!? She was pretty smart!
"From now on you can no longer watch those shows! You spend too much time in front of the Magivision as it is. So you can only watch an hour a day from now on!" Ela said firmly.
Rebecca"s face turned pale. She quickly wiped her tears and ran over to Alicia. She bowed her head and said: "Big Sister Alicia, I am sorry for calling you names! I did not know it was a rude thing to say!" She then tried to sneakily turn and look at her mother hopping her apology will lift the band on the Magivision but to her disappointment, her mother was not even paying attention to her!
Seeing all this, Alicia let out a laugh before leaning over and whispering into Rebecca"s ear: "I will see if I can help you with this later on."
Rebecca formed a huge smile on her face as she jumped up and threw her arms around Alicia saying: "Big Sister I love you!"