"Yes. We do. In fact, I think it would be good to start now." Norbert said.

"So.. You went for a quest, bla bla bla, everything was fine, fine, bla bla-"

"Stop that." Athena said.

"-bla. Then you didn't come back. Which, you're gonna have to explain to us, of course, but not yet. So, right, Me and Damen went to spy on Drygg, almost got caught, made a whole lot of people piss their pants-"

Jave snorted, his eyes widening.

" and returned home safe. Next day, bunch to soldiers came to 'arrest' us, so we ran off, and well, since we didn't really have a place to hide, we went where they especially did not expect to find us. Into Drygg's house. Which, now that I think about it, seems really idiotic. So, we unintentiouly came across... Dygg's diary." He paused for emphasis. "Yup. That idiot had gone and written every god damn thing he had done, including... the map exchange." His eyes's flickered too Jave for an instant. "But, that wasn't really enough to go to the city council with, nor would it explain how Damen's aunt became a noble. No, what we had found disgusted us."

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Damen nodded.

"I mean, we all knew that Drygg was not someone you would call good, but even then, we couldn't imagine him doing what he did." Damen said. "Jave, do you remember the Silver Prince?"

Jave nodded, his face immediately turning serious.

The Silver Prince was one of the first adventurers he had met. Jave thought him to be a good man, with strong ideals. He held tight to those ideals, and hence was one of those people who Jave whould remember for the rest of his life. No,  he was no exagerrating, because the Silver Prince to him, was one of the main reasons he was able to go on, facing the ridicule.

The Silver Prince got famous, fast. He had quickly gained a reputation with his blades, grey eyes, and character. And so the entire city came to know of him.

One day though, one of the most dreaded days of Jave's life, he stopped coming to the guild. At first, Jave had dismissed it, but later, he had found out that the Silver Prince had died. His eyes had been gouged out by his own hands, and after, he had slit his own throat. 

Jave didn't like where he was going with this. He found himself unconsiously clenching his fists.

Damen's face darkened. 

"Do want to know how he died? One day, a little attention seeking greedy boy wanted the appreciation of a famous adventurer. However, the adventurer saw the boy for what he really was and told him to relearn his morals. Apparantly, that little shithead of a boy didn't take it well and plotted behind his back. And so he went..."