Duhane 's Surprise

Slowly waking up, the man began to look around, he was in a poor room filled with various things.

Rising up, one could see that he was stout and short, his nightgown was golden in color, different rings were worn on his fingers, some were runic, which no one knew about it was a hidden protection for Duhane as a merchant, he could not help but fear for his safety.

Walking through the room, shuffling his feet, he approached the mirror, a sleepy face appeared before him, deep-set blue eyes made his gaze constantly suspicious, a nose shaped like a ripe fruit complemented the image of a merchant traveler.

Unlike his friends, he did not like unshaven and therefore tried to remove his hair as soon as they showed. He was only thirty years old, but he already had good connections in various kingdoms and empires. After washing up and going back into the room and casting a glance at the rune stone that glittered.

Duhane knew that it was a message from someone, frowning, he slowly approached the runic stone, taking it in his hands and directing his mana there, and a message appeared in front of him.

"Dear Merchant Duhane, your escort task was taken by the first-year student of the magic wing, in the near future he will contact you and provide you with the necessary paper.

Sincerely, the director of the academy Suga Tin."

After reading the messages from the academy several times, he first came across the fact that his task was taken by someone from the academy. Usually a message came that his task had no priority or that there were no takers. He did not know that his task was evaluated for the second and third year, so he was glad that this time someone accepted his task.

In high spirits, he noticed another message from another academy, thinking that there would be a rejection, but instead there was also a message that someone had accepted his task and would arrive soon. Not understanding what was going on, he checked the seals of the directors, thinking that someone had maliciously joked with him, but the seals were real, as were the letters.

- Then not one stufon from the academy, then two at once! - Duhane spoke in surprise to no one.

Waking up, I could hear sounds from the street and screams from the first floor of the tavern, I could not make out the words, but by the voice it was possible to understand that the girl was arguing with one of the men.

I felt Keirin so close to me, grinning gently freed from her embrace, stretching, I glanced at Keirin who was sleeping, her sleep was not disturbed by the screams on the ground floor, yawning, I went to the window and looked out into the daytime.

A small number of representatives of races walked along the street where we stopped, someone was trading and someone was going to work, remembering the task, I ran my hand over the armor, the time was even earlier.

It was a great opportunity to walk around the city and look at it in the light of day, but my partner was asleep and, as I understood, did not plan to wake up in the near future. Shaking my head, waiting for her to wake up, I looked out the window, unlike the city next to the academy, it was the complete opposite, the faces of those who lived here were more gloomy, the clothes were also different, many went in simple clothes for wandering, the weather suited this city was overcast clouds covered the whole sky.

Continuing to observe the city until I heard sounds from the side of the bed where Keirin was sleeping.Looking at her, I saw that she had woken up, looking around the room and seeing me standing at the window, she also got up straightening her clothes.

- How long have you been awake? - Keirin asked in a sleepy voice, sitting down on the bed and yawning.

Smiling at her appearance, I saw her like this for the first time since we met, her braided hair was loose at night and the ends of her hair slightly covered her forehead.

- Recently, were you also woken up by a noise from below? - Answering her question, I asked.

Keirin began to listen, but shaking her head, showing that she had not woken up because of the noise.

- Since you woke up, let's go for a walk around the city and then we'll go to the merchant who placed the order for escorts. - While saying this, I went towards the door where we left our shoes.

Hearing the bed begin to creak behind me, realizing that Keirin got up and footsteps were heard behind my back. When we got ready, we left the room and headed downstairs, we didn't get anything out of the vaults, so we didn't take the time to collect things again.

Going down, we began to clearly hear voices, one belonged to the elf who gave us the number and the other was also female and they were arguing furiously about something.

When we started to descend the stairs, as yesterday, began to creak from our steps, going down, you could see how daylight penetrates into the premises, in the place where the representatives of the races were sitting yesterday was empty, looking at the table where the elf was sitting, I noticed that there was a group of young representatives of the race standing near the table, one was a light elf, two dark elves and next to them stood a human girl, she was of medium height, her dark hair was tied in a long ponytail, dressed as I could see was in travel clothes.

Because they had their backs to me, I couldn't see their faces. Frowning, I did not want to be a participant in this conflict, it did not concern me.

Approaching a group of representatives of different races, I had already heard part of the dialogues and, as I understood, the elf was accused of stealing a gold coin. I could only hope it wasn't for the coin I gave her.

- May I pass, dear ones? - I turned to those standing in front of me.

Hearing my voice, the dark elf turned around, casting an irritated glance at me, examining me and making sure of something, and whispered some words in the ear of a girl standing next to me.

The girl turned to me and I could see her face, she was pretty by the standards of representatives of the races, beautiful cheekbones, green eyes, she looked at me and grinned.

- Don't you see that they're talking here, get out before you get beaten up by a pathetic half-elf. - The dark elf said in an irritated voice.

Listening to what the dark elf was saying, I smiled, regardless of race, everyone looked at the half-breed as an insult to their race.

- Dear, insulting a representative of a race unknown to you will not bring you anything good. - I said, smiling, not taking my eyes off the dark elf.

The dark elf's beautiful face twisted from my words and wanting to say something, but when he felt the girl's touch, he turned his gaze to her and saw how she nodded.

- Come on in, you can talk to the elf and then get lost while the bones are in place of the half-breed. - The dark elf said irritably, allowing him to go to the table.

Bowing to the girl who apparently had power over the others in this group, I went to the table and saw a tearful light elf.

- Thank you for the room provided and this is for possible inconveniences. - I said, putting five gold coins in front of the elf.

The light elf, hearing a new voice, looked up and saw yesterday's half-elf who gave a gold coin. Shifting her gaze to the table, she noticed five gold coins, she did not know what to say, she shifted her gaze from the coins to the half-elf who turned around and headed towards his companion.

There was a similar situation with the group that surrounded the table with the elf, they expected that the half-elf would give the key and leave, but besides that he left gold coins as if it was a minor waste for him.

After waiting until the strange half-elf and his companion left the tavern, the whole group carefully looked at the elf who began to tremble from their gaze.

- Who is this half-elf? - The girl asked.

Unlike her companions, she noticed that the companion of this half-elf was a light elf and she was not just, she did not feel anything from the half-elf, but she got goosebumps from the elf.

- I don't know, he arrived last night, rented a room and that's it. - The light elf said uncomprehendingly.

The rest of the girl's group looked at her attentively, they began to think about catching up with this strange half-elf and finding out where he got the gold coins from.

- Fel are you interested in him? - The light elf asked tensely.

Hearing the elf's question, the girl whose name was Fel laughed, shifting her gaze to the light elf.

- No, but he was right, you shouldn't be rude to the unknown in front of you, so I suggest you go to our task. - Fel said and turned around and headed for the exit of the tavern.