Field Practice

After few good hours of reading and making notes Sophie decided to take some of her time outside use the free time she had to work on her eye, which in comparison to other tasks felt like a break. She ventured into the woods as per usual, soon climbing the steep hill before deciding to sit down on the cliff and stare down at yokai and wildlife in silence, observing them calmly for a longer while before finally deciding to sigh quietly and close her eyes.

She took a deep breath before using what she learned so far about her eye and soon began gathering mana within it, soon she exhaled loudly and slowly opened her left eye alone, smiling faintly as she once more was able to observe the world through mana itself, gasping loudly as the forest appeared to be more lively than when she stared at it normally.

As before, her perception changed with her staring at everythings blueish outlines surrounded by flames of all sizes within each living creature, revealing things she wouldn't see usually. She chuckled as she spotted a group of what looked like hares hidden in their den, venturing through as she presumed tunnles they dug, hiding from a foxes that tried to pick them as their prey. She enjoyed the scenery, watching it with curiosity, especially at times when the lessers went against one another, watching as the victorious one slowly absorbed the lost ones power, watching as the two flames merged into stronger one, some even eruptign with power as rarely the lessers would evolve.

This fascinated her and worked well as practice over her eye, perhaps not a perfect one but better than nothing.
(Sophia Ryozo)



Darak was surprised , the situation around Valmasia was worst than what he though.
How this crimson hair boy didn't knew about The Dreamer , it was a dissapointment for him. He didn't really know if he was making fun of him. That mke Darak a little mad but he didn't wan't to attack the human , first it was a kid and second that wasn't his job.

"The Dreamer is the name of a true God , we live in "Reality" and we are just getting prepare to wake up in , the realm of the Dream but if you don't follow him you would fall in the Nightmare... and suffer for eternity...but you know thats why I am here to teach you about the true path you need to follow."

Darak down his head, looking at the floor. He tries to arrange his hair as he put his helmet back. He stand his head again and looks in front , the weird sharp teeth boy isn't here no more.."What? Where he go?" -he thinks. Darak look to all sides and doesn't find no one near. "Maybe I scare him?"

"Hmmpfff..." -He sighs.

Darak ready to go, take with his left hand the helmet and arrange his cloth. He looks to the other side but this time again there is a girl standing near him. This human was quite different for the last one. This one have a weird red eye, quite scary. Darak for a second thinked that she was a apostle but then he notice that is only her eye like a curse. "Another human?... This people are each time more weird..."-he thinks as he stare at her.

"Hello? Who are you friend?"

He looks at her with caution, her skin was pale almost like a Neries and his hair was white but what call his attetions was the red aura surrounding her, Humans are quite strange. He didn't understand anything but he didn't want to make her feel uncomfortable so he just try to act normal, maybe she wanted to join the Church of Insight.





(Darak)
After few good hours of studying the Ryozo made her way out of Brighthold, like usually leaving for a walk towards Wychwood forest where she spent her time relaxing and training her eye, trying to find a way to fully control it. She had plans to utilize it in her daily life and possibly in combat and exploration as the eye's mana sight had alot of potential.

The life within the woods proven to be excelted experiment and practice grounds for her ability as the sight allowed her to discover things hidden from normal eye's view. Though as she made her way towards her usual spot within the woods she was stopped by someone, at first glance appearing to be a human or drakanite, though with the pale skin and horns Sophie realized that she had to be dealing with Neries, race she read about from one of the books she went through recently.

Her eyes narrowed as she moved her fingers in slow maner, resulting with her blood aura to wobble and hiss loudly as air escaped it. She left herself on guard, ready to let the other personality out if Darak turned out to be hostile towards her. Though for now she simply smiled faintly and rose her hand in a greeting before responding.

 "Uh...hello...I am Sophie...I was on my way to spend some of the time at the hill to watch the forest as a break from my studies and research...though...uh who are you?" she asked.
(Sophia Ryozo)
She wasn't as surprised as the human before, it looks like she was way more educated. It may seems that she knows the Neries "Maybe pale skins are superiors humans?" He thinks as he look at her. He raise his hand too, replyign tot the greeting, as he smile to her. He was quite cautious with her aura, he didn't wanted to get crushed by her too. Another raise may dislike a blood magician, but for a Neries if she didn't harm the elements and nature it was fine.

"I am Darak The Soundless, Ear of the Dreamer and Pursuer of the Church of Insight
and ..well I am her looking for Apostle or heretics of the Church.. thats the fate the Dreamer put in my hands.

He starre at her, he wanted to see her answer and her attitude toward his "tittle" , maybe she was a heretics or a rebel of the Church.. he hope this isn't the case, maybe because as a Neries he hsan't seem peculiar people like her. It make him feel that he wasn't alone, even if he wouldn't accept it. She resemble him a little his race.


(Darak)
Sophie listened to Darak in silence, keeping both of her eyes locked on him, with great interest and curiosity, desiring to learn more of the specie and person she just met, hoping that their conversation would satisfy her neverending hunger for knowledge, a side curse of her own, an odd gluttony of her own that she had.

Her head tilted a little as she listened to the neries, trying to remember all of his titles and reasons he had to be in such a place like the Wychwood forest. She moved one of her hands towards her chin just before deciding to supply her left eye with mana, soon closing it and allowing for black veins to pop up around it just as she activated it, trying to test her ability out, taking their encounter as possible experiment.

She nodded towards Darak jsut before deciding to repond to him with calm voice.  "Apostoles and Heretics of the Dreamer I guess? Huh...honestly I only know that people here believe in Kraus and Azrael, never heard anyone worshiping the Dreamer, so yeah I would say that you might have walked into land of Heretics." she chuckled lightly before reopening her eye which would appear to be glowing faintly.

To her surprise though, the eye would work once more, resulting with her staring at the neries before her in both, normal sight and bluesih outline with visible laylines and relatively small flame indicating their mana within them. Her eyes widened in surprise as both images appeared to have merged together, confusing her a little as she saw everything normaly along with things her right eye wouldn't spot at all.
(Sophia Ryozo)
Darak knew he couldn't get too much comfortable with a lesser race, it would be a sin in the eyes of the Church of Insight. She doesn't know about the Dreamer too, maybe
she have some reason.. this land is what Darak call plagued for false Gods.... He doesn't deny there religions he just think that is a false path, to follow a God that isn't the Dreamer? Valmasia is doomed in a nightmare. He looks at her left eye, it was a weird transformation, Maybe she was hiding something to Darak?
Her eye was a red color with black veins around her , he didn't understand what was going on at all. "Is she depraved?"- He think , as he get a little more serious , stopping his smile.


"Land of Heretics? Well then this is the fate the Dreamer choose for me, to give him the right place in these lands, and show everyone who is the true God."

He says with a more authoritarian tone, or at least that he will try. He looks at her again, and smile a little more. He didn't want to scary her like he did to the other humans , maybe she was the one that will join the Church of Insight, it will be a good accomplishment for Darak to bring such a peculiar person. Again he bring his ahnd to his head and accomodate his hair again, while he move his hair you could see the gem in his forehead , it was a beautiful purple that shined brightly. The boy realize his gem is at sight so he again accomodate the hair to cover it. Trying to change the topic he fast ask her.

What are you researching and studying? is there a academy or something near these lands?

Darak wanted to know more information bout that, he didn't knew much about the current state in Valmasia , he just knew few things about how bad and how mcuh wars were surrounding it but nothing more and also wanted to knew about the strenght of the lesser species, He wasn't very worry about it but he as a pursuer learned that he shouldn't understimate his rivals. He have heard all this magic things that people talk about , he would like to see them near, even if he doesnt believe much in them because the blessing his God give him couldn't be challengue or that at least he thought.

As a follower of the Dreamer he need to make sure that he could protect the church.

(Darak)
Darak: Is she corrputed? - He thinks*
She stared at Darak in silence as he continued to speak, she continued to ponder about him and his motives, her hands prepared incase he was going to try anything against her, though for now she simply observed and waited, allowed him to speak and ask questions, showing no hostility to avoid causing problems for herself and the Dawn.

The eye kept working for a good while by now, showing no signs of exhustion or pain she experienced before, resulting with her possibly learning how it worked and how to keep it going without causing any harm to herself. That said, she kept staring at the neries, somewhat dissapointed by his power, leaving her dissapointed at fact that he would pose no challenge IF fight was to break out between the two.

She sighed loudly as soon as he asked her a question in regards of her research and study, along with place that reasemled academy or school. She remembred rumors of place Phoenix Academy which was left behind after Alliance took control over Danarium., she sighed loudly and soon addressed that to respond to his concerns.  "There isn't place you could academy since Phoenix one was left without anyone to use it for years now....and if you must know I am researching alot of things, from rune-writing and alchemy to properties of time, blood itself and my family's eye....
(Sophia Ryozo)
Rune-writing? he have never heard about that. It seems like a profane art, he sure should get far from there. Alchemy in the other part, was something he was a little interested. He as a followers of the path of the ears of the church have a natural affinity for healing magic. He accept the Dreamer voice and was gifted with this. So learning alchemy could help him to protect the innocent creating potions that could heal. It was his jobs as a pursuer to protect. Properties of time , that was one of the gift of the Dreamer time itself and the help to control it.


"Time thats a interesting gift, as part of the Dreamer Ear, acceptance have guide us to learn about sound and time. Maybe you should join us and you could learn more than you believe."

Darak believe that she may searching knowledge for healing, maybe in the end she was some type of medic. He looks at her cloth , it looks like some type of organization , maybe one of medics. It wouldn't be a problem if Darak help this people with the healing. So he ask her wanting to know about them.

"That cloth look from some type of organization, are you from a medical zona or soemthing like that? Maybe I can help you with it."



(Darak)
Darak's odd factination over her was starting to become oddly annoying as he kept speaking of the Dreamer and soon offering her to join it to gain more knowlwedge, he sounded like typical zealot, kind of people that she hated, mostly thanks to Azraelites. Her eyes rolled in response to his offer before shaking her head before deciding to respond with clearly unamused tone.

 "I am already member of Radiant Dawn...group that seeks to bring better a better tomorrow to Valmasia...we are healers, schoolars...warriors...as far as I saw we accept all weirdos despite their race...as long as they aren't depraved and are seeking common cause." she said bluntly.
(Sophia Ryozo)