After a nap Ezra wakes up, looks around the room and tries to get up.

He can no longer feel the pain of his injuries, they have nearly fully healed. then, he remembers the dept.

Rushing out of the room he speeds through the hallway looking for a doctor.

The door bursts open Revealing Ezra standing in the doorway.

-"has anybody seen a doctor that was in my room yesterday?"

-"what do you want, child?" asks a doctor sitting in a chair behind the masses of people and workers.

-"how much do i have to pay?"

-"pay?"

-"yes, you said something about a dept i have to pay, how much is it?" he says with a panicked expression

-"oh, 300 gold pieces, not that it matters anyway, somebody already payed for it on your behalf, saying something along the lines of "a child shouldn't have to pay". He was quite influential too, a powerful spellcaster no less, otherwise, how could he have payed such a large sum of money?"

Ezra, the second he hears that runs out, not bothered enough to close the door fully. He hears some yelling and commotion behind him but ignores it and doesn't look back, although feeling a strong sense of unease for a reason he is completely unsure of.

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He bolts out of the wooden doors, nearly tearing them off the hindges. Looking around he finds no one, and hears no one apart from the howling winds which carried all types of trash and a dirty napkin.

Out of two roads going two opposite ways he chooses the left one and runs as fast as his body allows him.

At that speed he stops paying attention to the road and bumps into a passing traveler, he falls to the ground but the traveler seems mildy inconvenienced.

-"Are you okay, kid?" the traveler asks in a soft male voice.

-"i am, sorry for that."

-"its alrigh- wait, are you the kid i had to bail out of the hospital?"

-"ahh, maybe" Ezra speaks in confused and apologetic tone, but the traveler pays no mind to his shortcomings, his kind expression never changed from the moment the two met each other, and yet, Ezra feels a strange sense of emptiness in his heart, harboring a feeling of guilt as well. The guilt he feels greatly impacts how he talks, it weighs on his throat like a thousand pieces of gold till he begins to sound as if he will burst into tears any minute.

-"i will join you on your travels!" he shouts in the middle of the road and immediately bursts into tears.

The traveler is baffled by this scene and tries to calm him down to no evail.

-"this adventure will ne dangerous! You can't go!"

-"please, i beg of you! I need to pay off my depts to you! I need to join you!"

The traveler groans "fine, but be careful and try to not die."

-"alright! Thank you, when are we going?"

-"today, in fact, i was just planning to."

-"lets go then! This way, we can mutually help each other!" he grows energetic at the sight of an adventure in the future.

-"sure, what's your name. I'm Tahir, hope we'll get along"

-"i'm Ezra, i indeed hope so!"