Rachal started reading page after page of the guild draft and about halfway through she got frustrated about references she skipped over in the very beginning, so she restarted from there. When she did Becky moved behind her and started reading as well. They both read quickly as Rachal’s training to be a doctor gave her the ability to comprehend information quickly and Becky as her class needed both high awareness and intelligence to work properly. After about half an hour Rachal lowered the stack of papers after reading the last page.
“ That... how did they come up with something in less than twenty-four hours?”
The witch chuckled and nabbed the papers from her hand and stuffed them in her cloak. A cloak without pockets.
“ That is the benefit of high-level contractor they called in. That and scribes and a lot of coffee. I was there two hours ago when one of the kids was working with an elf leveled up three times just making this draft. I mean I read the entire thing twice before I understood half of it, but I think it is a good start. It needs a lot of fine tuning to account for local law and such but I think it is workable.”
Rachal nods to this a Becky leans over her shoulder.
“ So, Alice are you going to join?”
The witch, Alice, shook her head.
“ My class is not made for big groups or so much organization. I might be a provisionary member or a client, but it puts too many restrictions in place. The biggest thing is the fair deal part. Deals I make I should be getting out ahead, based on what my class is telling me.”
Becky stands up strait and starts nodding.
“ Makes sense. I might join as a guard or something.”
This caused the other two look each other and smile amused.
“ What? Did I say some inside joke or something?”
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Alice shakes her head and turns to walk away as Rachal answers her.
“ You sitting still for five minutes is hard to imagine.”
Becky seeing the joke now smiled wide and shook her head as well and left in a different direction. Seeing her confident stride made her think when they first met her two newest friends.
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Rachal blinked as the haze cleared from her eyes and mind as she started to take in the dimly lit room. Before she could do more than that however she heard a scream of horror and rage and as she turned to look at who caused the scream and why; she was sucker-punched in the side of the jaw by another naked young woman. Lucky for her the follow-up punch was not so well placed and grazed her elbow. Her passive healing was already healing her newly fractured jaw, just at a much slower rate due to her already overdrawn magic reserves.
“ You..., do you know how much they tortured us because...”
Before the hysterical woman could continue some twinkles of light went over her eyes and she fell to her knees and was out like a light on her side a moment later.
“ Sorry about that. You don’t deserve to be punished for what your class does naturally.
Rachal blinked surprised again as she wiped the blood on her chin away and she began to stare at the open hand. After a moment more to compose herself, she took the offering.
“ Names Rachal, healer class, obviously.”
The young petit woman probably no older than sixteen nods and looks around at the other girls just as puzzled and scared as they were.
“ Nice, I’m Alice, a witch in class and nature. Though I think this world has a slightly old-fashioned idea of me. Casting word spells went out of style ages ago.”
Rachal smiled at that before she began looking around at the others, who were starting to gather on the two.
“ All right, are any of you red or green dorm? Anyone who can fight seriously needs to get ready because whatever they had us under just wore off on all of us at once. Which means either they are going to be coming through that door any moment to rescue us or subdue us and put us back under again.”
This caused most of the women there to back away but three steps forward. Including her new witch friend. It turned out rescue did not come for over half an hour and by that time the four had worn themselves down with their hypervigilance. Luckily it was the Duke’s guard that found them and later they were given blankets to cover themselves as they were herded to the medical ward where they found Becky sitting spread eagle on a bed as a healer worked to fix her arm. She was still covered in the mess from what they were doing to her when the charm wore off, but more noticeable and numerous was the amount of blood covering her bare body. Rachael could not help but move next to her, and so does Alice.
“ So, I guess you would like to know how I got these scars?”
Rachael smiled at that somewhat getting the reference, while Alice drew a blank.
“ Yea, by the mess you are covered in. I bet it is one hell of a story.”
Becky nods happily to this as Alice can still only stare.
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Rachal and Alice could not help but fail to hold back giggles glad at least some of those who took advantage of them got their just deserts.
“ Names Becky by the way. Your that healer girl they can't shut up about aren’t you? Wow, I can actually feel the voodoo you do doing work.”
Rachal felt happy for a moment before the reality of what happened over the last few days hit her like a truck.