He shook his head. "I don't know about those two, but I don't think so. I think Angelo just needed to rekindle some adventure in him."
"Oh?" Ava said, "Well we are visiting the city for a few days before heading back to Orion."
"So I've heard." He paused. "Wait, heading back? You two are wanderers, yes? What reason would you have to go back to Orion?"
"We are thinking to head to Mast, but stopping back at Orion to pick up some things" Olivia said.
"Interesting." He nodded looking at the fire.
One of the merchants walked to them with several bowls and handed them out, "Meal's ready. Eat up." "Thank you" Olivia said. "Thanks" Ava said.
Angelo sprung up as soon as he heard the word 'meal.' Ando shook his head as he took up Dante's meal to the hill. Angelo still had his hood on as he ate, rather joyfully.
"There's enough for seconds" the merchant said before going back to hand the food to the others. Olivia ate hers quietly while Ava took a look at her food before eating.
Angelo looked in pure bliss when he heard that he could have more and promptly asked for more when he was finished with his first bowl.
"Well that was quick..." the merchant said as he poured him another. Ava gave a chuckle, "Well you are indeed an eater."
"Food and sleep help me keep up my mana. I deplete a lot, from experimentation, and other things." He started away on his next bowl.
"Oh? Made many interesting things?" Ava asked.
"Not that kind of experiments. I cast spells differently from most."
"Oh? What's it like?"
"I piece together words of an unused language and chant them. Get the phrase wrong and unexpected things may happen. Like my eye color or my hair color. The eyes were when I tried to make my breakfast blue." He paused. "I was young then. But mistakes can be made."
"Is it? I haven't heard of it, not that I know about magic and the likes that well..." Ava said.
"I wouldn't be surprised. There is only one other person I know of who can do this and it's the man that taught me." He placed down his empty bowl.
"Oh? I would love to here more" she said as an arrow flew across the campfire, followed by a barrage of arrows fired from the forest. Olivia tackled Ava to help her duck down. "Eeek!" Ava screamed. The merchant leader yelled, "Bandits! Get down! It's coming from the forest!"
Angelo's book appeared, looking larger than it was before, it opened and acted like a shield for Angelo. It shrunk back down to its usual size after the barrage. He let out a sharp whistle to let the other two know to hurry down, which they did. Angelo stood. "Looks like you are going to hear more, today."
Ava pushed Olivia to the side, "I can handle myself thank you." She retrieved her bow from her stuff stack. She went into cover while Olivia took a tower shield from the wagon, "Sorry about borrowing this." The place was silent once again...
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