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too serious. He’s been a drunk all his life.”  Elled smiled. “He sounded serious.” The waiter nodded. “ They all are.”

Done with the meal, Elled paid and waved at the bunch of drunks containing Larus. Time to get us a ride.  

Once outside it felt like the town changed. As if they were looking through different eyes. It all grew darker, grimmer, maybe knowing the town was overruled added to the atmosphere.  Elled looked at his little companion and nodded. “Let’s not lose hope.”  he chuckled.

Moving around in the town, lots of market stalls where empty. Only a few managed to stay open, but the fish didn’t look to good. Everywhere there were people shouting, trying to sell their goods. It was a busy town, but it looked lke everyone was down on their luck. Trying to find the way through the thick crowd. Elled accidentally bumped into a cloaked person

Immediatly he noticed something was wrong, as when the strange character passed by, he started to accelerate. He was running away. Elled checked his pockets, noticing he lost all his money. Quickly he turned around only to see the man vanish into the crow.

He notified Marana and ran after the thief. Marana was smaller, so she would be able to squeeze right through. Elled ran towards a low building, smashed the floor and a small tree grew below him, carrying him all the way to the top. He jumped off as he was overlooking the town for the cloaked individual.

Jumping building to building, he couldn’t find him. The town was too packed this time of day. Maybe even, the thief removed the cloak. He couldn’t find him anywhere.

Marana was running and running, checking small allies and on the look out for the stranger, or his cloak. When suddenly, two men appeared behind her. The ally was narrow, and the two men where closing her in. She called for Elled, but he was too far away.

THey looked mean, scars on their faces, big nose, mean grin. One of them started to speak, his voice cold and dark. “What a lovely little girl, do we have here..”  To Marana’s ears it sounded just filthy. She knew what he was after. The other man, quickly moved towards her and grabbed her throat, then slammed her against the wall. ‘ Let’s see how fresh this meat is.”  he grinned.

She closed her eyes, recited a spell Elled taught her and grabbed the bone he gave her. The men where chatting with each other, discussion what to do with her. From the bone, a large yellow energy emerged, and the Bea’ar’s spyra appeared. It looked just like the giant Bea’ar but in stead of being from flesh and blood it excist only from Maqia energy. They called it the Animal’s Spyra (spirit).

A loud roar echoed through the alley, and the two men where struck on their place. Elled heared