Recent content by Eirika E'sprit

The trio waited for a small group to gather nearby the gate before passing through, blending in so as to go unnoticed by the posted guards who seemed entirely disinterested in what they saw. Perhaps one needed to have physical abnormalities, a bit of overzealous volume in their voice, or be an...

"I will hunt the biggest dragons and giants Arethil has ever seen!" Eirika let the boy chatter, deciding it better not to burst his little ego that he would never slay any dragon. They were not like the myths and fables humans told one another, stories of dragons guarding treasures and being...

That seemed to spark a bit of amusement out of the boy. Perhaps he hadn't heard that before. It was likely Eirika presumed that most of the folks living outside the city as farmers, more precisely, the poor, were by large illiterate and ignorant of most of the history of Arethil. Even the...

"Why are we going there?" Came the next question. Rather than answer the inquiry Eirika decided to divert his attention to another subject. She and Kasim could have told him that they were going to meet someone important, that they needed to find someone in the city, but that would just...

As they stood atop the hill Eirika felt her nerves creep up a bit. The city was imposing, especially for one such as herself that had lived in the relative seclusion of the Falwood for so long. She felt the confines of such dense populations rather smothering each time she'd ventured into the...

Eirika nodded, stepping out once more into the midday sun. They had lost some time, and traveling with the boy would be another complication on top of getting him to his birth father. Even longer to explain everything, but even still, Eirika felt it would have been wrong to have simply ignored...

Game of houses? Eirika looked at Kasim with furrowed brows. That is the most ridiculous sounding game. "So much of your culture makes little sense to me. You are strange folk." And people thought the elves were odd? They weren't going around murdering children for personal gain as if it were...

He wants to walk into the lion's den with this boy without knowing what might happen? Eirika's expression changed to one of concern. There simply weren't any good options, she couldn't take him back to Fal'Addas. Not just because it was completely in the opposite direction from where they were...

Eirika looked up at Kasim when she finished, speaking with emphasis on her words in a long, drawn out, sarcastic manner. "Goheno nin, Hir vuin." She smiled, knowing he didn't understand the mockery. "Better my hands cold on your chest than your blood warming the dirt, yes?" The elf considered...

Eirika listened to the explanation. She understood the concept of a bastard child, and that in the upper echelons of human society they were frowned upon, though most of the time the father of said child held no accountability. It was simply 'the way of things.' More nauseating human...

"Why would they be after a child? Is he an heir to something that someone else didn't want him ascending to?" That was really the only reasoning Eirika could conceive of as to why someone would willfully try to outright kill an innocent child. There was no crime they could commit worthy of...

Eirika's face felt sore the longer they walked, the man's thrusting of his elbow into her earlier had caused some swelling over the last thirty minutes that now at the very least felt noticeable. Once they arrived at the quarry the elf pointed towards a nearby opening in the large stone. The...

Reaching out with her free hand to try helping him up by his arm, Eirika noticed for the first time since the fight that his arm was bloodied, and his shirt damp with blood that seemed to be his own. Before she could insist on mending his flesh first he had already trudged his way off down the...

Despite her efforts, the child wouldn't let Eirika put him down, likely out of fear for what might happen to him if he let go his hold of the elf. Hazel eyes studied Kasim as he stared down at a ring and blotchy ink scribbles written on a piece of linen paper. His face looked sullen. "Kasim."...

Some time passed before the bird above finally began to circle around a small patch, the light chirping to signify it had found what Eirika was looking for. Several moments later she brushed aside a few large stalks and step through to find both mother and child together. The woman, who appeared...