I have a look of shock on my face, "You have a kid? When am I gonna meet them? What's their name?"
Zralin giggles as he sees my shock, "His name is Zralin Estis the 2nd. You can meet him after my match is finished, "By the way, take this card..." he says as he pulls out a card and holds it out to me. I grab it and try to read it before shrugging my shoulders, "I can't speak squiggles, what does this say?"
Zralin has a look of realization on his face before pointing at the door way, "Take this to the guy at the table and show him it, he will take you to the section that my family members would sit in, my son and Ciri would've here but he is too young to witness such violence, maybe when he gets older, anyway, Erika can also join you."
I nod and a voice echoes in the room, "Fight begins in 5 minutes, prepare yourself." Zralin nods to himself before he turns around and grabs a sword from his back, "You guys should make you way to your seats, I'm preparing to give this guy a beating upside the head." I nod and me and Erika begin to leave, but just before I leave entirely, I see the sword transform into chains with large serrated knives on the ends in his hands.
We do as he said and show the guy at the table the card. In response, he flicks his fingers and gets someone's attention as they walk over. "Please take them to Zralin's family booth!"
The female clerk nods at him and then nods towards us before walking towards a direction silently. I follow behind her with Erika beside me as we walk, encountering the every so often rich guy which I accept their patronage of unknowingly handing me their money as they walk past.
We eventually reach a door with a sign of two doors with an up arrow above them. I am confused as I suddenly hear the sound of wind behind the door and watch as they open up to show a round Dragonborn with exquisite clothing on while he holds a strong semi-human Dragonborn beside him.
They both are smiling with a genuine smile as they walk out and down the hall, enjoying themselves. I hear the guide ask, "Are you getting on?" and feel a slight pulling as I look over to see Erika trying to quietly take me into the elevator.
I smile as I pat her head and walk in beside her, she looks up at me as she asks, "What was wrong? You were staring at those men a few minutes ago." I smile as I remember, "It's nothing, I just haven't seen any couples like that since I left my original world. I had to take a plains portal from redead to the last world to travel."
She looks at me confused as she looks at the couple walking away before the doors close. The clerk walks over to a button and presses it as we stand in the room. I quickly ask, "So what is this room for?" She smiles as she explains, "This is what we call an elevator as it elevates us to the higher floor so you can have a better view of the battle."
The door suddenly opens as she walks out and I walk out as I look at it with satisfaction, 'Perhaps I should of tried to use one of those instead of using ladders to reach my floating island.'
We walk down a hall until we suddenly reach a door and as she opens it, I about jump as she walks onto a platform made of pure glass. She looks behind her and sees my spooked expression before realizing what I was thinking and explaining, "This platform is made of glass but has the same strength as metal thanks to magic reinforcement, you have nothing to worry about." She says as she stomps on the glass, not even scratching it. I walk onto it as look down to see the ground below me, far away.
I go to take another step when I suddenly feel a small resistance, I look behind me to see Erika looking at the platform with fear, as if scared.
That's when I realize, she is afraid of heights. I smile as I grab both of her hands and look at her, don't look down for now, wait till we reach our seats, for now just look at me. She trembles slightly as she looks down at the ground before looking up at my smiling face. She suddenly feels as safe as she can be and slowly walks onto the glass outcropping.
I guide her to her seat and sit her down before moving my seat beside her and sitting down. She looks down as she shakes slightly. She looks over at me, seemingly trying to distract herself, "So who is Tiamat and Bahamut and how did Zralin become a demi-god?"
Vitruvius looking down, looks over at her with a look of confusion, "Sorry, what did you say? I was busy contemplating that if you cut a piece of lasagna in half, does it become 2 or does it become 2 times the amount of layers it has?"
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Lasagna, so many questions to ask, so little time....Thanks for reading!