Single post in Chronicles of Gaia (RP)

For Rowan and Laura, the past month had been a time of catch up and experimentation. Laura mainly focussed on training, wanting to recapture some of her old skills now that she finally found out how Crysts worked. At first these were solo endeavors, bounty hunting low-level crooks in the city using just her stealth abilities was a common outing. As the days turned into weeks however, Laura found herself doing more and more group jobs, usually at the urging of Aislin. Khalua turned out to be a frequent partner, as he was training up his own stealth and ambush abilities, and it surprised the siren when she realized she enjoyed having the company. It made her feel better about being forced to re-learn her skills when she was doing it alongside others. Rowan could almost always be found in high spirits, so glad he was to be back with the group and have some company other than Laura to talk to. he bounced between various low-stress jobs and spent a lot of time hanging out with other group members to see what they got up to, and to see if he could find any inspiration for ways to apply his new Cryst abilities. One day he might follow Kudret to the Forges, another he might try his luck with one of Laura bounty-hunting jobs. Those mostly went poorly, as it turned out his angelic wings were very conspicuous in the city slums. He also spent a lot of time talking with Lina, eager to make friends with the only other person in the group with wings. The place Rowan spent the most time however was in the library, reading books alongside Aislin. Sometimes they'd just sit and read, pouring over fascinating descriptions of crafting materials, discovering interesting combinations of magical elements and their effects. Some days they chatted easily, discussing little things and the various day to day happenings in the group. But some days talking was hard. Bringing up the things that had happened between them before and at the tower, it could make the air in the library unbearably awkward. Still, he had tried his best to apologize for his mistakes, for pushing his problems onto her unfairly. The angel wasn't entirely positive the air had been cleared between them even after a month had passed, but he did have growing confidence that they would still remain good friends.

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"This is incredible!" Rowan gushed at the mansion as they were all lead inside. Laura looked less impressed than the angel, but still excited. "It's not half bad." She said approvingly, "Finally no more cheap inns." Beyond the entrance hall, which was not too large and had stairs leading from either side to the 2nd floor, was a large circular main hall. A long balcony supported by smooth wooden collumns ran all along the edge of the hall, and many doors could be seen along the walls of both stories. the center region of the hall was lowered just slightly, so one had to take a step down as they came out from below the balcony. In the very center of the room was a grand stone fire pit, large enough to light up the whole hall and fill it with warmth, but not so large that you could not see a person sitting across it from you. The open space between the balcony and the fire pit was filled with comfortable chairs and nice tables, no doubt for a mixture of eating and relaxing. There was also a tree, modestly decorated, but standing with purpose on the opposite side of the fire pit from the entrance. While Laura got comfy in one of the shairs, Rowan walked over to Lina and got a closer look at the tree. "Curious. It reminds of the trees from the star festivals back home, but this seems different. What is it for?" The angel asked Lina.